The pre-image problem for Laplacian Eigenmaps utilizing <i>L</i> <sub>1</sub> regularization with applications to data fusion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract As the popularity of non-linear manifold learning techniques such as kernel PCA and Laplacian Eigenmaps grows, vast improvements have been seen in many areas of data processing, including heterogeneous data fusion and integration. One problem with the non-linear techniques, however, is the lack of an easily calculable pre-image. Existence of such pre-image would allow visualization of the fused data not only in the embedded space, but also in the original data space. The ability to make such comparisons can be crucial for data analysts and other subject matter experts who are the end users of novel mathematical algorithms. In this paper, we propose a pre-image algorithm for Laplacian Eigenmaps. Our method offers major improvements over existing techniques, which allow us to address the problem of noisy inputs and the issue of how to calculate the pre-image of a point outside the convex hull of training samples; both of which have been overlooked in previous studies in this field. We conclude by showing that our pre-image algorithm, combined with feature space rotations, allows us to recover occluded pixels of an imaging modality based off knowledge of that image measured by heterogeneous modalities. We demonstrate this data recovery on heterogeneous hyperspectral (HS) cameras, as well as by recovering LIDAR measurements from HS data.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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