What is the role of eigen decomposition in spectral embedding?

Updated May 16, 2026

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Spectral embedding uses eigenvectors of graph Laplacian for dimensionality reduction.

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It constructs similarity graph, computes Laplacian matrix, and uses eigenvectors corresponding to smallest eigenvalues to embed data preserving structure.

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