This work proposes a novel tensor train random projection (TTRP) method for dimension reduction, where the pairwise distances can be approximately preserved. Based on the tensor train format, this new random projection method can speed up the computation for high dimensional problems and requires less storage with little loss in accuracy, compared with existing methods (e.g., very sparse random projection). Our TTRP is systematically constructed through a rank-one TT-format with Rademacher random variables, which results in efficient projection with small variances. The isometry property of TTRP is proven in this work, and detailed numerical experiments with data sets (synthetic, MNIST and CIFAR-10) are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency of TTRP.

Tensor Train Random Projection