lec4

High dimensional space

  • potentially millions of dimensions

Hypercube

  • higher dimensional cube
  • equal width in every dimensions
  • line -> square -> cube -> hypercube
  • unit hypercube is \(\epsilon\) in each dimension where \(\epsilon\) is the unit vector
  • hyper rectangle has unequal length in each dimension
  • \(H_d(\ell) = \{(x_1, x_2 ...) | 0 \le x \le \ell\}\)

Volume

  • \(V(H_d(\ell)) = \ell^d\)
  • Unit hypercube has volume 1

hypersphere

  • equal radius in each dimension
  • point -> line -> circle -> sphere
  • hollow
  • \(S_d(\gamma) = \{(x_1 ...) | \sum(s_i)^2 = \gamma^2\}\)
  • hyperball is not hollow
  • \(B_d(\gamma) = \{ \vec x | \|x\|^2 \le \gamma^2\}\)
  • Volume of hyperball and hypersphere are the same
  • \(V(S_d(r)) = \int\limits^r_02\pi r dr = k_d r^d\)
  • Volume of hypersphere goes to 0 as dimensionality increases
  • \(\frac{2 \pi e}{d}^{d/2} \frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi d}}r^d\)
  • All points are in the corners
  • Diameter = \(1 - (1-\epsilon/r)^d\)

minimum bounding

  • rectangle
  • circle

Multidimensional gaussiens

Density

  • Points around the mean
  • \(f(x|\vec0,I) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}^d}e^{-\frac{x^T x}{2} \)
  • Peak density is \(1/\sqrt{2\pi}\)
  • \(f(0)\) is the peak density
  • as \(d \rightarrow \infty \quad p (\frac{f(x)}{f(0)} \le \infty) = 0\)