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Supporting Analysis of Dimensionality Reduction Results with Contrastive Learning

Takanori Fujiwara, Oh-Hyun Kwon, Kwan-Liu Ma

Published 2019-05-10Version 1

Dimensionality reduction (DR) is frequently used for analyzing and visualizing high-dimensional data as it provides a good first glance of the data. However, to interpret the DR result for gaining useful insights from the data, it would take additional analysis effort such as identifying clusters and understanding their characteristics. While there are many automatic methods (e.g., density-based clustering methods) to identify clusters, effective methods for understanding a cluster's characteristics are still lacking. A cluster can be mostly characterized by its distribution of feature values. Reviewing the original feature values is not a straightforward task when the number of features is large. To address this challenge, we present a visual analytics method that effectively highlights the essential features of a cluster in a DR result. To extract the essential features, we introduce an enhanced usage of contrastive principal component analysis (cPCA). Our method can calculate each feature's relative contribution to the contrast between one cluster and other clusters. With our cPCA-based method, we have created an interactive system including a scalable visualization of clusters' feature contributions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and system with case studies using several publicly available datasets.

Comments: This manuscript is currently under review
Categories: cs.LG, cs.GR, cs.HC, stat.ML
Subjects: I.3.8
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