Summary of Convergence Analysis Of T-sne As a Gradient Flow For Point Cloud on a Manifold, by Seonghyeon Jeong et al.
Convergence analysis of t-SNE as a gradient flow for point cloud on a manifold
by Seonghyeon Jeong, Hau-Tieng Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a theoretical foundation for understanding the boundedness of t-SNE (t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) algorithm. t-SNE uses gradient descent with Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence as its objective function to identify points that closely resemble original data in high-dimensional space, minimizing KL divergence. The paper investigates properties such as perplexity and affinity under a weak convergence assumption on the sampled dataset, examining the behavior of generated points under continuous gradient flow. By demonstrating that t-SNE-generated points remain bounded, the paper establishes the existence of a minimizer for KL divergence. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us understand how a powerful machine learning algorithm called t-SNE works and what it can do. T-SNE is used to find patterns in big data by finding points that are similar to each other. The researchers looked at how well t-SNE does this job, and they found that it stays within certain limits as it searches for these patterns. This is important because it shows that t-SNE can always find the best solution to its problem. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Embedding * Gradient descent * Machine learning * Objective function * Perplexity
