Abstract
For a probability measure μ on a real separable Hilbert space H, we are interested in "volume-based" approximations of the d-dimensional least squares error of μ, i.e., least squares error with respect to a best fit d-dimensional affine subspace. Such approximations are given by averaging real-valued multivariate functions which are typically scalings of squared (d+1)-volumes of (d+1)-simplices in H. Specifically, we show that such averages are comparable to the square of the d-dimensional least squares error of μ, where the comparison depends on a simple quantitative geometric property of μ. This result is a higher dimensional generalization of the elementary fact that the double integral of the squared distances between points is proportional to the variance of μ. We relate our work to two recent algorithms, one for clustering affine subspaces and the other for Monte-Carlo singular value decomposition based on volume sampling.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 45-70 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | Mathematika |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Received 12 August 2010, published online 20 December 2011. MSC (2000): 28A35 (primary). This work has been supported by NSF awards DMS-0612608, DMS-0915064 and DMS-0956072.