Interpolation of Sparse High-Dimensional Data
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This article discusses Dr. Thomas Lux's research on the geometric perspective of supervised machine learning, particularly focusing on why neural networks excel in tasks like image recognition. It highlights the importance of dimension reduction and selective approximation in neural networks. The article also touches upon the placement of basis functions and the sampling phenomenon in high-dimensional data.
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“The insights from Thomas's work point at why neural networks are so good at problems which everything else fails at, like image recognition. The key is in their ability to ignore parts of the input space, do nonlinear dimension reduction, and concentrate their approximation power on important parts of the function.”