Patent Document ID: 8190612
Application ID: 12336874
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for reducing dimensionality of a data set, comprising: accessing, using one or more data processors, a data set including a plurality of observations, wherein each observation has an associated number of attributes, wherein each attribute has a corresponding value, and wherein a number of attributes represents a dimensionality; generating, using the one or more data processors, a similarity matrix using the data set, wherein the similarity matrix identifies degrees of similarity among the attributes; generating, using the one or more data processors, global clusters of attributes using the similarity matrix, wherein a global cluster includes a subset of the attributes, and wherein the attributes are grouped in the global clusters according to the degrees of similarity; generating, using the one or more data processors, a global cluster structure using the global clusters of attributes, wherein generating the global cluster structure includes determining a component for each global cluster of attributes, and performing a latent variable technique using the components; generating, using the one or more data processors, a sub-cluster structure using the global clusters of attributes, wherein generating a sub-cluster structure includes performing the latent variable technique or a different latent variable technique on each global cluster of attributes; and combining, using the one or more data processors, the global cluster structure and the sub-cluster structure to generate a cluster structure that has a fewer number of attributes than the accessed data set, wherein the fewer number of attributes represents a reduced dimensionality.