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T-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is a nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithm introduced by van der Maaten and Hinton in 2008.

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The usage of "variance" (vs. "standard deviation") in the 2008 t-SNE paper

In the t-SNE paper from 2008 the term "variance" is mentioned on several occasions. For example on page 3: For nearby datapoints, $p_{j|i}$ is relatively high, whereas for widely separated datapoi …
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What is the meaning of the axes in t-SNE?

I'm currently trying to wrap my head around the t-SNE math. Unfortunately, there is still one question I can't answer satisfactorily: What is the actual meaning of the axes in a t-SNE graph? If I were …
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