AUTHOR=Bac Jonathan , Zinovyev Andrei TITLE=Lizard Brain: Tackling Locally Low-Dimensional Yet Globally Complex Organization of Multi-Dimensional Datasets JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurorobotics VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2019 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00110 DOI=10.3389/fnbot.2019.00110 ISSN=1662-5218 ABSTRACT=Machine learning deals with datasets characterized by very high dimensionality. However, in many cases, the intrinsic dimensionality of the datasets is surprisingly low. Multidimensional data point clouds can be effectively located in the vicinity of subspaces possessing locally small dimensionality, but having a globally complicated organization which is sometimes difficult to represent with regular mathematical objects (such as manifolds). We review modern machine learning approaches for extracting low-dimensional geometries from multi-dimensional data and their applications in various scientific fields.