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Main Authors: Guardieiro, Vitoria, de Oliveira, Felipe Inagaki, Doraiswamy, Harish, Nonato, Luis Gustavo, Silva, Claudio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07257
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author Guardieiro, Vitoria
de Oliveira, Felipe Inagaki
Doraiswamy, Harish
Nonato, Luis Gustavo
Silva, Claudio
author_facet Guardieiro, Vitoria
de Oliveira, Felipe Inagaki
Doraiswamy, Harish
Nonato, Luis Gustavo
Silva, Claudio
contents High-dimensional data, characterized by many features, can be difficult to visualize effectively. Dimensionality reduction techniques, such as PCA, UMAP, and t-SNE, address this challenge by projecting the data into a lower-dimensional space while preserving important relationships. TopoMap is another technique that excels at preserving the underlying structure of the data, leading to interpretable visualizations. In particular, TopoMap maps the high-dimensional data into a visual space, guaranteeing that the 0-dimensional persistence diagram of the Rips filtration of the visual space matches the one from the high-dimensional data. However, the original TopoMap algorithm can be slow and its layout can be too sparse for large and complex datasets. In this paper, we propose three improvements to TopoMap: 1) a more space-efficient layout, 2) a significantly faster implementation, and 3) a novel TreeMap-based representation that makes use of the topological hierarchy to aid the exploration of the projections. These advancements make TopoMap, now referred to as TopoMap++, a more powerful tool for visualizing high-dimensional data which we demonstrate through different use case scenarios.
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spellingShingle TopoMap++: A faster and more space efficient technique to compute projections with topological guarantees
Guardieiro, Vitoria
de Oliveira, Felipe Inagaki
Doraiswamy, Harish
Nonato, Luis Gustavo
Silva, Claudio
Graphics
Computational Geometry
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
High-dimensional data, characterized by many features, can be difficult to visualize effectively. Dimensionality reduction techniques, such as PCA, UMAP, and t-SNE, address this challenge by projecting the data into a lower-dimensional space while preserving important relationships. TopoMap is another technique that excels at preserving the underlying structure of the data, leading to interpretable visualizations. In particular, TopoMap maps the high-dimensional data into a visual space, guaranteeing that the 0-dimensional persistence diagram of the Rips filtration of the visual space matches the one from the high-dimensional data. However, the original TopoMap algorithm can be slow and its layout can be too sparse for large and complex datasets. In this paper, we propose three improvements to TopoMap: 1) a more space-efficient layout, 2) a significantly faster implementation, and 3) a novel TreeMap-based representation that makes use of the topological hierarchy to aid the exploration of the projections. These advancements make TopoMap, now referred to as TopoMap++, a more powerful tool for visualizing high-dimensional data which we demonstrate through different use case scenarios.
title TopoMap++: A faster and more space efficient technique to compute projections with topological guarantees
topic Graphics
Computational Geometry
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07257