Title
A more globally accurate dimensionality reduction method using triplets.
Abstract
We first show that the commonly used dimensionality reduction (DR) methods such as t-SNE and LargeVis poorly capture the global structure of the data in the low dimensional embedding. We show this via a number of tests for the DR methods that can be easily applied by any practitioner to the dataset at hand. Surprisingly enough, t-SNE performs the best w.r.t. the commonly used measures that reward the local neighborhood accuracy such as precision-recall while having the worst performance in our tests for global structure. We then contrast the performance of these two DR method against our new method called TriMap. The main idea behind TriMap is to capture higher orders of structure with triplet information (instead of pairwise information used by t-SNE and LargeVis), and to minimize a robust loss function for satisfying the chosen triplets. We provide compelling experimental evidence on large natural datasets for the clear advantage of the TriMap DR results. As LargeVis, TriMap scales linearly with the number of data points.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Learning
Data point,Pairwise comparison,Dimensionality reduction,Global structure,Embedding,Algorithm,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1803.00854
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ehsan Amid1216.83
Manfred K. Warmuth261051975.48