In this paper, we first expound why the volume-preserving algorithms are proper for numerically solving source-free systems and then prove all the conventional methods are not volume-preserving. Secondly, we give a general method of constructing volume-preserving difference schemes for sourcefree systems on the basis of decomposing a source-free vector field as a finite sum of essentially 2-dimensional Hamiltonian fields and of composing the corresponding essentially symplectic schemes into a volume-preserving one. Lastly, we make some special discussions for so-called separable source-free systems for which arbitrarily high order explicit revertible volume-preserving schemes can be constructed. Classification (1991): 65L05, 34A50
Mathematics Subject
Dimensionality reduction (DR) is a common strategy for visual analysis of labeled high-dimensional data. Low-dimensional representations of the data help, for instance, to explore the class separability and the spatial distribution of the data. Widely-used unsupervised DR methods like PCA do not aim to maximize the class separation, while supervised DR methods like LDA often assume certain spatial distributions and do not take perceptual capabilities of humans into account. These issues make them ineffective for complicated class structures. Towards filling this gap, we present a perception-driven linear dimensionality reduction approach that maximizes the perceived class separation in projections. Our approach builds on recent developments in perception-based separation measures that have achieved good results in imitating human perception. We extend these measures to be density-aware and incorporate them into a customized simulated annealing algorithm, which can rapidly generate a near optimal DR projection. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by comparing it to state-of-the-art DR methods on 93 datasets, using both quantitative measure and human judgments. We also provide case studies with class-imbalanced and unlabeled data.
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