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Manifold Dimension Estimation via Local Graph Structure

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Zelong Bi, Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux

arXiv:2510.15141v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most existing manifold dimension estimators rely on the assumption that the underlying manifold is locally flat within the neighborhoods under consideration. More recently, curvature-adjusted principal component analysis (CA-PCA) has emerged as a powerful alternative by explicitly accounting for the manifold's curvature. Motivated by these ideas, we propose a manifold dimension estimation framework that captures the local graph structure of the manifold through regression on local PCA coordinates. Within this framework, we introduce two representative estimators: quadratic embedding (QE) and total least squares (TLS). Experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that these methods perform competitively with, and often outperform, state-of-the-art approaches.