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New research explores affinity matrix smoothing for t-SNE neighborhood preservation

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A new research paper explores how altering the affinity matrix in t-SNE, a popular dimensionality reduction technique, impacts the preservation of data neighborhoods. The study introduces a parameter, gamma, to smooth or sharpen the probability distribution within the matrix, which is shown to be equivalent to adjusting the Gaussian bandwidth and thus the perplexity. The findings indicate that sharpening the distribution enhances the preservation of very close neighbors, while smoothing improves the representation of broader local neighborhoods, outperforming other multi-scale approaches in certain ranges. AI

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New research explores affinity matrix smoothing for t-SNE neighborhood preservation

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Shirin Mohebi, Guillaume Bied, Jefrey Lijffijt ·

    How smoothing the affinity matrix affects neighborhood preservation in t-SNE

    arXiv:2608.17190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dimensionality reduction methods are instrumental to visualize high-dimensional data, and t-SNE stands as one of the most widely used methods due to its emphasis on local neighborhood preservation. A central component of t-SNE is th…

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