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Random Projection

Random projection reduces dimensionality by multiplying the data by a random matrix, relying on the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma (1984), which guarantees that projecting onto enough random directions approximately preserves all pairwise distances. Unlike PCA it does not analyze the data at all — the projection is random and data-oblivious — making it extremely cheap and well suited to very high-dimensional data and streaming or privacy-sensitive settings.

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Random Projection (Johnson-Lindenstrauss Dimensionality Reduction)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Johnson, W. B., & Lindenstrauss, J. (1984). Extensions of Lipschitz mappings into a Hilbert space. Contemporary Mathematics, 26, 189–206. · DOI 10.1090/conm/026/737400
  • Achlioptas, D. (2003). Database-friendly random projections: Johnson-Lindenstrauss with binary coins. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 66(4), 671–687. · DOI 10.1016/S0022-0000(03)00025-4
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