Action respecting embedding
- Michael Bowling, University of Alberta
- Ali Ghodsi, University of Waterloo
- Dana Wilkinson, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Dimensionality reduction is the problem of finding a low-dimensional representation of highdimensional input data. This paper examines the case where additional information is known about the data. In particular, we assume the data are given in a sequence with action labels associated with adjacent data points, such as might come from a mobile robot. The goal is a variation on dimensionality reduction, where the output should be a representation of the input data that is both low-dimensional and respects the actions (i.e., actions correspond to simple transformations in the output representation). We show how this variation can be solved with a semidefinite program. We evaluate the technique in a synthetic, robot-inspired domain, demonstrating qualitatively superior representations and quantitative improvements on a data prediction task.
Citation
M. Bowling, A. Ghodsi, D. Wilkinson. "Action respecting embedding". International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Bonn, Germany, pp 65-72, January 2005.| Keywords: | machine learning | 
| Category: | In Conference | 
BibTeX
@incollection{Bowling+al:ICML05,
  author = {Michael Bowling and Ali Ghodsi and Dana Wilkinson},
  title = {Action respecting embedding},
  Pages = {65-72},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = 2005,
}Last Updated: May 24, 2007Submitted by William Thorne
 
        