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"<!-- dom:TITLE: Data Analysis and Machine Learning: Dimensionality Reduction -->\n",
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"# Data Analysis and Machine Learning: Dimensionality Reduction\n",
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"<!-- dom:AUTHOR: Morten Hjorth-Jensen at Department of Physics, University of Oslo & Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University -->\n",
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"<!-- Author: --> \n",
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"**Morten Hjorth-Jensen**, Department of Physics, University of Oslo and Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University\n",
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"\n",
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"Date: **Oct 26, 2018**\n",
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"\n",
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"Copyright 1999-2018, Morten Hjorth-Jensen. Released under CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license\n",
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"\n",
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"\n",
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"\n",
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"\n",
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"## Reducing the number of degrees of freedom, overarching view\n",
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"\n",
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"Many Machine Learning problems involve thousands or even millions of features for each training\n",
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"instance. Not only does this make training extremely slow, it can also make it much harder to find a good\n",
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"solution, as we will see. This problem is often referred to as the curse of dimensionality.\n",
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"Fortunately, in real-world problems, it is often possible to reduce the number of features considerably,\n",
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"turning an intractable problem into a tractable one.\n",
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"\n",
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"Here we will discuss some of the most popular dimensionality\n",
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"reduction techniques: the principal component analysis PCA, Kernel PCA, and Locally Linear Embedding (LLE).\n",
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"\n",
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"## Principal Component Analysis\n",
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"Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is by far the most popular dimensionality reduction algorithm.\n",
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"First it identifies the hyperplane that lies closest to the data, and then it projects the data onto it.\n",
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"\n",
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"The following Python code uses NumPy’s **svd()** function to obtain all the principal components of the\n",
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"training set, then extracts the first two principal components"
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"X_centered = X - X.mean(axis=0)\n",
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"U, s, V = np.linalg.svd(X_centered)\n",
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"c1 = V.T[:, 0]\n",
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"c2 = V.T[:, 1]"
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"PCA assumes that the dataset is centered around the origin. Scikit-Learn’s PCA classes take care of centering\n",
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"the data for you. However, if you implement PCA yourself (as in the preceding example), or if you use other libraries, don’t\n",
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"forget to center the data first.\n",
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"\n",
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"Once you have identified all the principal components, you can reduce the dimensionality of the dataset\n",
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"down to $d$ dimensions by projecting it onto the hyperplane defined by the first $d$ principal components.\n",
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"Selecting this hyperplane ensures that the projection will preserve as much variance as possible."
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"W2 = V.T[:, :2]\n",
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"X2D = X_centered.dot(W2)"
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"<!-- !split -->\n",
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"## PCA and scikit-learn\n",
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"\n",
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"Scikit-Learn’s PCA class implements PCA using SVD decomposition just like we did before. The\n",
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"following code applies PCA to reduce the dimensionality of the dataset down to two dimensions (note\n",
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"that it automatically takes care of centering the data):"
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"from sklearn.decomposition import PCA\n",
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"pca = PCA(n_components = 2)\n",
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"X2D = pca.fit_transform(X)"
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"After fitting the PCA transformer to the dataset, you can access the principal components using the\n",
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"components variable (note that it contains the PCs as horizontal vectors, so, for example, the first\n",
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"principal component is equal to"
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"pca.components_.T[:, 0])."
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"Another very useful piece of information is the explained variance ratio of each principal component,\n",
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"available via the $explained\\_variance\\_ratio$ variable. It indicates the proportion of the dataset’s\n",
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"variance that lies along the axis of each principal component. \n",
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"More material to come here.\n",
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"\n",
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"## More on the PCA\n",
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"Instead of arbitrarily choosing the number of dimensions to reduce down to, it is generally preferable to\n",
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"choose the number of dimensions that add up to a sufficiently large portion of the variance (e.g., 95%).\n",
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"Unless, of course, you are reducing dimensionality for data visualization — in that case you will\n",
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"generally want to reduce the dimensionality down to 2 or 3.\n",
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"The following code computes PCA without reducing dimensionality, then computes the minimum number\n",
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"of dimensions required to preserve 95% of the training set’s variance:"
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"pca = PCA()\n",
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"pca.fit(X)\n",
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"cumsum = np.cumsum(pca.explained_variance_ratio_)\n",
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"d = np.argmax(cumsum >= 0.95) + 1"
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"You could then set $n\\_components=d$ and run PCA again. However, there is a much better option: instead\n",
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"of specifying the number of principal components you want to preserve, you can set $n\\_components$ to be\n",
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"a float between 0.0 and 1.0, indicating the ratio of variance you wish to preserve:"
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"pca = PCA(n_components=0.95)\n",
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"X_reduced = pca.fit_transform(X)"
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"## Incremental PCA\n",
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"One problem with the preceding implementation of PCA is that it requires the whole training set to fit in\n",
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"memory in order for the SVD algorithm to run. Fortunately, Incremental PCA (IPCA) algorithms have\n",
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"been developed: you can split the training set into mini-batches and feed an IPCA algorithm one minibatch\n",
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"at a time. This is useful for large training sets, and also to apply PCA online (i.e., on the fly, as new\n",
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"instances arrive).\n",
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"\n",
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"## Randomized PCA\n",
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"\n",
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"Scikit-Learn offers yet another option to perform PCA, called Randomized PCA. This is a stochastic\n",
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"algorithm that quickly finds an approximation of the first d principal components. Its computational\n",
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"complexity is $O(m \\times d^2)+O(d^3)$, instead of $O(m \\times n^2) + O(n^3)$, so it is dramatically faster than the\n",
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"previous algorithms when $d$ is much smaller than $n$.\n",
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"\n",
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"## Kernel PCA\n",
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"\n",
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"The kernel trick is a mathematical technique that implicitly maps instances into a\n",
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"very high-dimensional space (called the feature space), enabling nonlinear classification and regression\n",
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"with Support Vector Machines. Recall that a linear decision boundary in the high-dimensional feature\n",
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"space corresponds to a complex nonlinear decision boundary in the original space.\n",
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"It turns out that the same trick can be applied to PCA, making it possible to perform complex nonlinear\n",
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"projections for dimensionality reduction. This is called Kernel PCA (kPCA). It is often good at\n",
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"preserving clusters of instances after projection, or sometimes even unrolling datasets that lie close to a\n",
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"twisted manifold.\n",
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"For example, the following code uses Scikit-Learn’s KernelPCA class to perform kPCA with an"
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"from sklearn.decomposition import KernelPCA\n",
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"rbf_pca = KernelPCA(n_components = 2, kernel=\"rbf\", gamma=0.04)\n",
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"X_reduced = rbf_pca.fit_transform(X)"
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"## LLE\n",
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"\n",
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"Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) is another very powerful nonlinear dimensionality reduction\n",
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"(NLDR) technique. It is a Manifold Learning technique that does not rely on projections like the previous\n",
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"algorithms. In a nutshell, LLE works by first measuring how each training instance linearly relates to its\n",
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"closest neighbors (c.n.), and then looking for a low-dimensional representation of the training set where\n",
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"these local relationships are best preserved (more details shortly). \n",
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"\n",
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"\n",
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"## Other techniques\n",
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"\n",
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"\n",
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"There are many other dimensionality reduction techniques, several of which are available in Scikit-Learn.\n",
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"\n",
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"Here are some of the most popular:\n",
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"* **Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)** reduces dimensionality while trying to preserve the distances between the instances.\n",
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"\n",
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"* **Isomap** creates a graph by connecting each instance to its nearest neighbors, then reduces dimensionality while trying to preserve the geodesic distances between the instances.\n",
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"\n",
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"* **t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding** (t-SNE) reduces dimensionality while trying to keep similar instances close and dissimilar instances apart. It is mostly used for visualization, in particular to visualize clusters of instances in high-dimensional space (e.g., to visualize the MNIST images in 2D).\n",
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"\n",
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"* Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is actually a classification algorithm, but during training it learns the most discriminative axes between the classes, and these axes can then be used to define a hyperplane onto which to project the data. The benefit is that the projection will keep classes as far apart as possible, so LDA is a good technique to reduce dimensionality before running another classification algorithm such as a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier discussed in the SVM lectures."
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