Friday, April 27, 2018

Quantized Compressive K-Means

Laurent, a long time reader of Nuit Blanche and one of the speakers at the workshop on the Future of Random Projection II this coming wednesday ( you can register here whether you are in Paris or not so as to receive information on the link for the streaming ) has just released an arxiv on the subject area:



The recent framework of compressive statistical learning aims at designing tractable learning algorithms that use only a heavily compressed representation-or sketch-of massive datasets. Compressive K-Means (CKM) is such a method: it estimates the centroids of data clusters from pooled, non-linear, random signatures of the learning examples. While this approach significantly reduces computational time on very large datasets, its digital implementation wastes acquisition resources because the learning examples are compressed only after the sensing stage. The present work generalizes the sketching procedure initially defined in Compressive K-Means to a large class of periodic nonlinearities including hardware-friendly implementations that compressively acquire entire datasets. This idea is exemplified in a Quantized Compressive K-Means procedure, a variant of CKM that leverages 1-bit universal quantization (i.e. retaining the least significant bit of a standard uniform quantizer) as the periodic sketch nonlinearity. Trading for this resource-efficient signature (standard in most acquisition schemes) has almost no impact on the clustering performances, as illustrated by numerical experiments.





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1 comment:

JackD said...

Well, this is mainly the work of my PhD student, Vincent Schellekens. But thank you for the post !!

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