CSC321:
Extra Lecture (not on the exam)
Non-linear dimensionality reduction
Linear methods of reducing dimensionality
Other non-linear methods of reducing dimensionality
IsoMap: Local MDS without local optima
How Isomap measures intrinsic distances
Using Isomap to discover the intrinsic manifold in a set of face images
A probabilistic version of local MDS
Computing affinities between datapoints
Turning conditional probabilities into pairwise probabilities
Evaluating an arrangement of the data in a low-dimensional space
The cost function for a low-dimensional representation