Stochastic cluster embedding

DOI10.1007/S11222-022-10186-ZMaRDI QIDQ2104017zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhirong Yang, Denis Sedov, Samuel Kaski, Jukka Corander, Yu-Wei Chen

Publication date 9 December 2022

Published in Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08003

zbMATH Keywords

clusteringvisualizationnonlinear dimensionality reductionstochastic optimizationinformation divergenceneighbor embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08)

Abstract: Neighbor Embedding (NE) aims to preserve pairwise similarities between data items and has been shown to yield an effective principle for data visualization. However, even the best existing NE methods such as Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (SNE) may leave large-scale patterns hidden, for example clusters, despite strong signals being present in the data. To address this, we propose a new cluster visualization method based on the Neighbor Embedding principle. We first present a family of Neighbor Embedding methods that generalizes SNE by using non-normalized Kullback-Leibler divergence with a scale parameter. In this family, much better cluster visualizations often appear with a parameter value different from the one corresponding to SNE. We also develop an efficient software that employs asynchronous stochastic block coordinate descent to optimize the new family of objective functions. Our experimental results demonstrate that the method consistently and substantially improves the visualization of data clusters compared with the state-of-the-art NE approaches.

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Uses Software

• largeVis
• t-SNE
• ELFI
• UMAP
• LargeVis
• DeepView

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