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sdl | 5 months ago

So basically the map projection problem [1] in higher dimensions?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

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niemandhier|5 months ago

Worse. Map projection means that you cannot have a mapping that preserves elements of the internal geometry: angles and such.

Violation of topology means that a surface wrongly is mapped to one intersecting itself: Think Klein Bottle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

bravura|5 months ago

Can you share an actual example demonstrating this potential pathology?

Like many things in ML, this might be a problem in theory but empirically it isn’t important, or is very low on the stack rank of issues with our models.