Volume 38, Issue 6
Convergence of Laplacian Spectra from Random Samples

J. Comp. Math., 38 (2020), pp. 952-984.

Published online: 2020-11

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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete Laplacians are often used for manifold learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Graph Laplacian is one widely used discrete laplacian on point cloud. It was previously proved by Belkin and Niyogithat the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of the manifold in the limit of infinitely many data points sampled independently from the uniform distribution over the manifold. Recently, we introduced Point Integral method (PIM) to solve elliptic equations and corresponding eigenvalue problem on point clouds. In this paper, we prove that the eigenvectors and eigenvalues obtained by PIM converge in the limit of infinitely many random samples. Moreover, estimation of the convergence rate is also given.

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Graph Laplacian, Laplacian spectra, Random samples, Spectral convergence.

62G20, 65N25, 60D05

twq17@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (Wenqi Tao)

zqshi@tsinghua.edu.cn (Zuoqiang Shi)

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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete Laplacians are often used for manifold learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Graph Laplacian is one widely used discrete laplacian on point cloud. It was previously proved by Belkin and Niyogithat the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of the manifold in the limit of infinitely many data points sampled independently from the uniform distribution over the manifold. Recently, we introduced Point Integral method (PIM) to solve elliptic equations and corresponding eigenvalue problem on point clouds. In this paper, we prove that the eigenvectors and eigenvalues obtained by PIM converge in the limit of infinitely many random samples. Moreover, estimation of the convergence rate is also given.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Convergence of Laplacian Spectra from Random Samples AU - Tao , Wenqi AU - Shi , Zuoqiang JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 6 SP - 952 EP - 984 PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11 SN - 38 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2008-m2018-0232 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/18415.html KW - Graph Laplacian, Laplacian spectra, Random samples, Spectral convergence. AB -

Eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete Laplacians are often used for manifold learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Graph Laplacian is one widely used discrete laplacian on point cloud. It was previously proved by Belkin and Niyogithat the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of the manifold in the limit of infinitely many data points sampled independently from the uniform distribution over the manifold. Recently, we introduced Point Integral method (PIM) to solve elliptic equations and corresponding eigenvalue problem on point clouds. In this paper, we prove that the eigenvectors and eigenvalues obtained by PIM converge in the limit of infinitely many random samples. Moreover, estimation of the convergence rate is also given.

Wenqi Tao & Zuoqiang Shi. (2020). Convergence of Laplacian Spectra from Random Samples. Journal of Computational Mathematics. 38 (6). 952-984. doi:10.4208/jcm.2008-m2018-0232
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