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A Survey of Dimension Estimation Methods

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Pith's one-line read No single dimension estimator works across all datasets; most need careful tuning and many overfit benchmarks.

desk verdict A useful, honest benchmark of dimension estimators whose 'overfitting' claim overstates the evidence: it measures hyperparameter sensitivity, not held-out generalization, but the empirical work is solid and deserves peer review. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.13887 v1 pith:LUSFVIHX submitted 2025-07-18 stat.ML cs.LGmath.DGmath.MGmath.STstat.TH

classification stat.MLcs.LGmath.DGmath.MGmath.STstat.TH
keywords intrinsicdimensionestimationbenchmarkcomparisonhyperparametersensitivitycurvatureandnoiserobustnesstangentialestimatorsparametrictopologicaldataanalysis
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The reading

This survey asks a practical question: when a dataset lives on a low-dimensional structure inside a high-dimensional space, how reliably can existing estimators recover that intrinsic dimension in real conditions? The authors review and categorize the main estimation methods by the geometric information they exploit, then test them on benchmark manifolds. Their central finding is that there is no single estimator or set of hyperparameters that performs well across all settings, and that choosing the best hyperparameters for benchmark datasets frequently amounts to overfitting, so many estimators may not generalize beyond the data they were tuned on.

What carries the argument

The central organizing framework is the categorization of estimators by the geometric information they use: tangential estimators that detect a local affine tangent structure, parametric estimators that rely on dimension-dependent probability distributions of distances or angles, and estimators based on topological or metric invariants such as minimum spanning trees, k-nearest-neighbour graphs, and magnitude. This categorization is what allows the authors to explain why different estimators fail differently on curvature, noise, boundary effects, and high dimensional throttling, where the neighbourhood size k sets a hard ceiling on the dimension an estimator can return.

What would settle it

A concrete falsifier would be to find a single estimator with a fixed hyperparameter setting that performs accurately on the same benchmark manifolds across a wide range of intrinsic dimensions, curvatures, noise levels, and out-of-distribution datasets, contradicting the paper's claim that no universal estimator or hyperparameter set exists.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's core claim is stated in its conclusion: "There is no single estimator or set of hyperparameters that can perform well across all settings." This is established empirically by benchmarking a wide cohort of estimators on synthetic manifolds, and by showing that the performance of most estimators depends heavily on the choice of hyperparameters, with the best choice often varying from dataset to dataset. The authors also find that most estimators underestimate intrinsic dimension on high-dimensional datasets, while overestimation can occur on datasets such as SO(n), and that no estimator performs satisfactorily on non-linear manifolds of dimension above six.

Load-bearing premise

The evaluation assumes that the chosen benchmark manifolds and the range of hyperparameters tested represent how dimension estimators will actually be used in practice.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Practitioners should not trust a single dimension estimator with default hyperparameters and should instead use a range of estimators and hyperparameters to assess how sensitive the inferred dimension is to modelling assumptions.
  • Benchmark results obtained by tuning hyperparameters to the test set should not be interpreted as a predictor of real-world performance, because the paper shows that overfitting to benchmark datasets is frequent.
  • On high-dimensional manifolds, tangential estimators face a throttling limit that grows with dimension, and slope-inference estimators can even produce negative estimates, so caution is required.
  • For practitioners with limited data, global estimators are generally more suitable, while local estimators require more samples because each neighbourhood must contain enough points.
  • Future work on automated or adaptive hyperparameter selection is needed, since the paper finds that no simple rule performs well universally.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper's conclusion implies that the apparent accuracy of an estimator on a benchmark should be read as a statement about that benchmark and that tuning process, not about the estimator alone.
  • A systematic rule for choosing hyperparameters, for instance based on features of the data before estimation, would be a direct extension of this work and could be tested on the same benchmark suite.
  • The finding that slightly positively curved surfaces can be easier for lPCA than flat ones suggests a testable extension: whether this bias generalizes to other tangential estimators or depends on the specific aggregation and thresholding.
  • The paper's evidence that estimators differ greatly in variance across random samples implies that reporting a single number for intrinsic dimension without uncertainty is misleading; interval estimates could be derived from running estimators across hyperparameters and subsamples.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper surveys intrinsic dimension estimation methods, organizing them into tangential, parametric, and topological/metric families, and extends the scikit-dimension package with new estimators. The empirical core benchmarks thirteen estimators on synthetic manifolds with intrinsic dimensions 1-70 and ambient dimensions 3-96, using four sample sizes, twenty repeated point sets per condition, and multiple hyperparameter choices. The authors report estimator-specific tables, noise and curvature experiments, a throttling analysis, and qualitative assessments. The central claims are that no single estimator or hyperparameter setting works across all settings and that frequent 'overfitting' in hyperparameter identification suggests limited generalization.

Significance. If the results are read as a sensitivity analysis of the tested estimators within the stated hyperparameter grids, the paper is a substantial and useful contribution. The benchmark is unusually careful: twenty repetitions, standard deviations, four sample sizes, and transparent tables; the authors also disclose in Appendix C that the 'best' hyperparameter is selected with knowledge of the true dimension. The code contribution to scikit-dimension is valuable. The main weakness is interpretive: the abstract and Section 3.3 present the oracle-based sensitivity comparison as evidence of 'overfitting' and poor generalization, which is not what the protocol measures.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract; Section 3.3; Appendix C] The claim that 'overfitting is frequent' and that 'many estimators may not generalise well beyond the datasets on which they have been tested' is not supported by the experimental protocol. In Appendix C, the 'best' hyperparameter for estimator E on manifold M is selected as the minimizer of |d_hat(E,M,H) - d(M)| and the reported performance uses the same 20 point sets used for selection; the 'med abs' and 'med rel' columns use a hyperparameter chosen by minimizing median absolute or relative error against the true dimensions over the same benchmark manifolds. This measures hyperparameter sensitivity and the tension between per-dataset and global choices, not generalization to new samples or new manifolds. To support the abstract's wording, the authors should add a held-out evaluation: tune H on one collection of samples and evaluate on independent samples from the same manifold, and apply H_best(E,M1) to other benchmark manifolds. Without such a test, the evidence supports only 'no single hyperparameter setting is optimal across benchmarks'.
  2. [Table 3; Appendix C] The qualitative column 'No tailoring of params' in Table 3 is based on the 'med abs' and 'med rel' hyperparameter choices, which are themselves obtained by minimizing the median absolute or relative error against the true dimensions across the benchmark manifolds (Appendix C). This is not an untuned or default setting; it is a globally oracle-tuned fixed parameter. The ticks in Table 3 therefore overstate the 'no tailoring' property. Please either use the scikit-dimension default parameters as the fixed baseline, or rename the column to something like 'insensitivity to a global hyperparameter choice' and adjust the discussion.
  3. [Section 3.3; Table C1] The statement in Section 3.3 that lPCA 'appears to give the correct dimension every time' is contradicted by Table C1, where the best-hyperparameter estimate for M10d Cubic (true dimension 70) is 55.2 at every sample size. The caveat about hyperparameter tuning does not resolve the contradiction, because the quoted value is already the best over the grid. Please correct the claim or restrict it to the datasets on which lPCA actually succeeds.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract; Remark 3.2] The abstract's generalizations should carry the qualifier that the empirical conclusions are relative to the hyperparameter grids listed in Appendix D, as the authors themselves acknowledge in Remark 3.2; as written, 'overfitting is frequent' reads as a statement about all hyperparameter ranges.
  2. [Section 2.3.1] The reference to 'eq. (14)' in the paragraph after the Costa and Hero discussion is a forward reference to Theorem 2.5; please renumber or point to eq. (10), where the Renyi-entropy connection is first visible.
  3. [Section 3.4.2] The WODCap throttling calculation would benefit from a cleaner derivation: the displayed expression for S(d) mixes Gamma-function notation and the resulting approximation for k is hard to parse; in particular, the notation involving Gamma((d+1)/2, 1/2) should presumably be Gamma((d+1)/2).
  4. [Section 4; Algorithm 1; Table C10] There are several typographical errors: 'is is' in Section 4, 'Datas set' in Algorithm 1, 'M20 Norm' in the Table C10 caption, and 'Theorem 2.6' in Figure 6 and Section 3.3 where Remark 2.6 is meant.
  5. [Table 2] The row for M2/M9 ('Affine 3to5 and M9 Affine 3, 20 5, 20') is hard to read; please reformat the table or caption to make the manifold, dimension, and ambient dimension columns unambiguous.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the paper is an empirical benchmark survey whose conclusions are measurements, not derivations from fitted inputs; the 'overfitting' inference is under-supported but not circular.

full rationale

This is a survey and benchmark study, not a derivation chain. The central empirical claims - that no single estimator or hyperparameter set dominates, and that estimators are sensitive to hyperparameter choice - are measured quantities reported from experiments on standard benchmark manifolds, not quantities derived from fitted inputs. The oracle-tuning protocol in Appendix C selects H_best(E,M) = argmin_H |dhat(E,M,H) - d(M)| and compares it with a fixed H_abs chosen across manifolds; this measures per-dataset hyperparameter sensitivity and the tension between per-dataset and global tuning. It is a measurement protocol, and the paper does not present the resulting best-case performance as a prediction about new data. The abstract's wording that 'overfitting is frequent, indicating that many estimators may not generalise well beyond the datasets on which they have been tested' goes beyond what the in-sample protocol can establish - no held-out evaluation is performed - but that is an evidentiary weakness, not circularity: the inference is not forced by the construction, it is an unverified extrapolation. Remark 3.2 itself acknowledges that 'our empirical study is subject to our particular choices of hyperparameter ranges,' explicitly flagging the scope limitation. Theoretical results (Theorems 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, and eqs. (6)-(9)) are imported from external literature (Kleindessner and von Luxburg, Beardwood-Halton-Hammersley, Steele, Schweinhart, Kozma-Lotker-Stupp, Yukich), not from the authors' own prior work; I find no load-bearing self-citations. The survey's taxonomy (tangential, parametric, topological/metric) is presented as an organizing classification, not as a new unification, and it does not rename a known result. The throttling and error-propagation analyses in Sections 3.4.2 and 2.6 are derived algebraically from the estimators' published definitions. Overall, the paper is self-contained as an empirical study; the 'overfitting' claim would need a held-out test to be fully supported, but no step of the paper's argument reduces by construction to its own inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical or mathematical entities. Its central claim is empirical and rests on the manifold hypothesis, on classical asymptotic results for Euclidean functionals, and on the representativeness of the chosen benchmark manifolds and hyperparameter grids. The only hand-chosen quantities are the experimental hyperparameter ranges, which the authors explicitly flag as finite and literature-guided.

free parameters (1)
  • Hyperparameter grids and defaults per estimator = Varied per method; ranges listed in Appendix D
    The comparison between best, median-absolute, and median-relative performance depends on these ranges. The authors note in Remark 3.2 that different ranges could change conclusions, so this is a hand-chosen experimental design element rather than a fitted constant in a model.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption The finite sample X is drawn i.i.d. from a distribution supported on a compact smooth submanifold M^d of R^D.
    Section 1.4 defines this setup for all estimators. If real data do not lie near such a manifold, the notion of intrinsic dimension and the benchmark conclusions may not transfer.
  • standard math Classical asymptotic results for Euclidean functionals correctly describe MST and kNN graph scaling used by PH0 and KNN estimators.
    Invoked in Theorems 2.2 and 2.5 and the surrounding text in Section 2.3. The paper does not re-derive these and relies on them to justify the slope-inference estimators.
  • domain assumption The standard scikit-dimension benchmark manifolds with known intrinsic dimension provide a representative testbed for practical dimension estimation.
    Section 3.2 describes the datasets and Remark 3.2 acknowledges the finite hyperparameter ranges. The paper's central overfitting claim is measured against this chosen set of manifolds.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: A Survey of Dimension Estimation Methods},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2507.13887}
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It is a standard assumption that datasets in high dimension have an internal structure which means that they in fact lie on, or near, subsets of a lower dimension. In many instances it is important to understand the real dimension of the data, hence the complexity of the dataset at hand. A great variety of dimension estimators have been developed to find the intrinsic dimension of the data but there is little guidance on how to reliably use these estimators. This survey reviews a wide range of dimension estimation methods, categorising them by the geometric information they exploit: tangential estimators which detect a local affine structure; parametric estimators which rely on dimension-dependent probability distributions; and estimators which use topological or metric invariants. The paper evaluates the performance of these methods, as well as investigating varying responses to curvature and noise. Key issues addressed include robustness to hyperparameter selection, sample size requirements, accuracy in high dimensions, precision, and performance on non-linear geometries. In identifying the best hyperparameters for benchmark datasets, overfitting is frequent, indicating that many estimators may not generalise well beyond the datasets on which they have been tested.

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Figure 1. Example of a cover and a refinement. There are points on the circle which are contained in three [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. On the left the idea behind the doubling property estimator is represented. The ratio of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The best estimates from our benchmark tables for 625, 1250, 2500 and 5000 points for each [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Standard deviation of dimension estimates of M1Sphere (uniform samples on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of dimension estimates of SO(4) and S 6 for estimators with a k-nearest neighbour parameter. The input data consists of 2500 points uniformly sampled on the manifolds, which have intrinsic dimension 6. The k parameter is varied from 4 to 50 in steps of 2. Fo…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Performance of KNN-estimator vs k on benchmark manifolds, for 5000 samples on each manifold. We show the empirical median dimension estimate, and the interquartile range, over 20 sets of random samples. Note the different scaling of the y-axis from dataset to dataset. …
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Dimension estimates from lPCA when neighbourhood sizes are varied from 4 to 100, for S 6 ⊂ R 7 . Colours indicate different threshold methods. Solid curves correspond to estimates using knn neighbour￾hoods, dashed curves correspond to using ϵ-neighbourhoods, where for …
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Dimension estimates from lPCA when neighbourhood sizes are varied from 4 to 100, for SO(4) ⊂ R 16. Colours indicate different threshold methods. Solid curves correspond to estimates using knn neighbourhoods, dashed curves correspond to using ϵ-neighbourhoods, where for…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: We consider 5000 points on M6 Nonlinear and fix the neighbourhood size at 50. Searching a range of values for the hyperparameter α in both alphaFO and alphaRatio, we observe that the methods mirror each other. Both can produce the correct dimension, 6, but only for a n…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Left: We compare the average performance over 20 runs for the best performing hyperparamenters [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Demonstration of how curvature affects PCA when points are drawn from a non-linear curve in R 2 . By comparison, using lPCA mitigates the effect of curvature. If the neighbourhoods are chosen too large lPCA will also begin to struggle. Consider, for example, the perfo…
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Points drawn from an elliptic paraboloid. The curvature at the origin is positive. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Points drawn from a hyperbolic paraboloid. The curvature at the origin is negative. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Sample from a torus. Red points having negative Gauss curvature, blue points have positive [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Both figures show the same trend. As curvature increases from negative to positive, the number [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Average pointwise dimension at (0,0,0) for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: For MLE there is a trend to underestimate as either κ2 or the neighbourhood size k is increased. The standard deviation stays reasonably constant for changes of κ2, while it decreases with k [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: For lPCA we recover the same trend in the estimate with changes in κ2 which we saw in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Using a torus embedded in R 3 as an example, we investigate the tendency to overestimate dimension as the local geometry is varied. lPCA and MLE exhibit divergent responses. The x-axis represents the position of points on the torus, with 0 representing the innermost l…

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