Given a hypergraph H with m hyperedges and a set Q of m pinning subspaces, i.e. globally fixed subspaces in Euclidean space R d , a pinned subspace-incidence system is the pair (H, Q), with the constraint that each pinning subspace in Q is contained in the subspace spanned by the point realizations in R d of vertices of the corresponding hyperedge of H. This paper provides a combinatorial characterization of pinned subspace-incidence systems that are minimally rigid, i.e. those systems that are guaranteed to generically yield a locally unique realization.Pinned subspace-incidence systems have applications in the Dictionary Learning (aka sparse coding) problem, i.e. the problem of obtaining a sparse representation of a given set of data vectors by learning dictionary vectors upon which the data vectors can be written as sparse linear combinations. Viewing the dictionary vectors from a geometry perspective as the spanning set of a subspace arrangement, the result gives a tight bound on the number of dictionary vectors for sufficiently randomly chosen data vectors, and gives a way of constructing a dictionary that meets the bound. For less stringent restrictions on data, but a natural modification of the dictionary learning problem, a further dictionary learning algorithm is provided. Although there are recent rigidity based approaches for low rank matrix completion, we are unaware of prior application of combinatorial rigidity techniques in the setting of Dictionary Learning. We also provide a systematic classification of problems related to dictionary learning together with various algorithms, their assumptions and performance. *
This paper introduces an elemental building block which combines Dictionary Learning and Dimension Reduction (DRDL). We show how this foundational element can be used to iteratively construct a Hierarchical Sparse Representation (HSR) of a sensory stream. We compare our approach to existing models showing the generality of our simple prescription. We then perform preliminary experiments using this framework, illustrating with the example of an object recognition task using standard datasets. This work introduces the very first steps towards an integrated framework for designing and analyzing various computational tasks from learning to attention to action. The ultimate goal is building a mathematically rigorous, integrated theory of intelligence.
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