Interpreting the Curse of Dimensionality from Distance Concentration and Manifold Effect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00422v3
• Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:08:31 GMT
• Title: Interpreting the Curse of Dimensionality from Distance Concentration and Manifold Effect
• Authors: Dehua Peng, Zhipeng Gui, Huayi Wu,
• Abstract summary: We first summarize the potential challenges associated with manipulating high-dimensional data, and explain the possible causes for the failure of regression, classification, or clustering tasks.<n>We then delve into two major causes of the curse of dimensionality, distance concentration, and manifold effect, by performing theoretical and empirical analyses.<n>The results demonstrate that, as the dimensionality increases, nearest neighbor search (NNS) using three classical distance measurements, Minkowski distance, Chebyshev distance, and cosine distance, becomes meaningless.
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• Abstract: The characteristics of data like distribution and heterogeneity, become more complex and counterintuitive as dimensionality increases. This phenomenon is known as curse of dimensionality, where common patterns and relationships (e.g., internal pattern and boundary pattern) that hold in low-dimensional space may be invalid in higher-dimensional space. It leads to a decreasing performance for the regression, classification, or clustering models or algorithms. Curse of dimensionality can be attributed to many causes. In this paper, we first summarize the potential challenges associated with manipulating high-dimensional data, and explains the possible causes for the failure of regression, classification, or clustering tasks. Subsequently, we delve into two major causes of the curse of dimensionality, distance concentration, and manifold effect, by performing theoretical and empirical analyses. The results demonstrate that, as the dimensionality increases, nearest neighbor search (NNS) using three classical distance measurements, Minkowski distance, Chebyshev distance, and cosine distance, becomes meaningless. Meanwhile, the data incorporates more redundant features, and the variance contribution of principal component analysis (PCA) is skewed towards a few dimensions.

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