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Area of Science:

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science
  • Computational Statistics

Background:

  • Accurate intrinsic dimensionality (ID) estimation is vital for managing uncertainty in real-life machine learning applications.
  • Existing methods for ID estimation lack a standardized, user-friendly Python implementation.
  • This gap hinders the consistent application and comparison of different ID estimation techniques.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce scikit-dimension, an open-source Python package for intrinsic dimension estimation.
  • Provide a uniform interface for applying various ID estimation methods.
  • Facilitate benchmarking of ID estimation techniques on diverse datasets.

Main Methods:

  • Developed scikit-dimension leveraging the scikit-learn API for consistent implementation of ID estimators.
  • Integrated generators for synthetic toy and benchmark datasets.
  • Ensured code quality through testing, coverage, and continuous integration.

Main Results:

  • Scikit-dimension offers a comprehensive toolkit for evaluating global and local intrinsic dimensions.
  • The package facilitates large-scale benchmarking, analyzing over 500 datasets.
  • Demonstrated the package's utility in comparing ID estimation methods on real-world and synthetic data.

Conclusions:

  • Scikit-dimension addresses the need for a standardized Python package for intrinsic dimension estimation.
  • The package simplifies the application and comparison of ID estimation methods.
  • Enables robust evaluation of machine learning model performance by understanding data dimensionality.