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Hauptverfasser: Bergam, Noah, Snoeck, Szymon, Verma, Nakul
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07746
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author Bergam, Noah
Snoeck, Szymon
Verma, Nakul
author_facet Bergam, Noah
Snoeck, Szymon
Verma, Nakul
contents Central to the widespread use of t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is the conviction that it produces visualizations whose structure roughly matches that of the input. To the contrary, we prove that (1) the strength of the input clustering, and (2) the extremity of outlier points, cannot be reliably inferred from the t-SNE output. We demonstrate the prevalence of these failure modes in practice as well.
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spellingShingle t-SNE Exaggerates Clusters, Provably
Bergam, Noah
Snoeck, Szymon
Verma, Nakul
Machine Learning
Central to the widespread use of t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is the conviction that it produces visualizations whose structure roughly matches that of the input. To the contrary, we prove that (1) the strength of the input clustering, and (2) the extremity of outlier points, cannot be reliably inferred from the t-SNE output. We demonstrate the prevalence of these failure modes in practice as well.
title t-SNE Exaggerates Clusters, Provably
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07746