T-SNE (T-Distributed Random Neighborhood Embedding) is a dimensionality reduction technique that is commonly used in machine Xi to visualize high-dimensional data.
T-SNEs are particularly useful for exploring and interpreting datasets with many variables or dimensions, such as images, speech data, and text data.
Technically, T-SNE works by first calculating the pairwise distance between all data points in a high-dimensional space. It then creates a probability distribution that assigns a higher probability to nearby points and a lower probability to distant points. Next, it creates similar probability distributions in a low-dimensional space and tries to minimize the difference between the two probability distributions. In other words, it tries to find low-dimensional representations of data to preserve similarities between data points in high-dimensional space.
One of the reasons why T-SNE is important in machine Xi is that it can reveal the underlying structure of high-dimensional data. This is especially important when working with large and complex datasets, such as image or speech data, where it can be difficult to discern patterns and relationships in the raw data. By visualizing data in a low-dimensional space, T-SNE can help researchers and data scientists better understand the relationships between data points and identify clusters or patterns that may not be obvious in the original data.
In the MNIST dataset (where the dataset contains images of handwritten numbers), each image is 28x28 pixels, which means that each image is represented by a 784-dimensional vector. This high-dimensional representation of data makes it difficult to explore and understand the relationships between images.
However, by using T-SNE to reduce the data dimension to two or three dimensions, researchers can visualize datasets and identify patterns and clusters of similar numbers. This is very useful in tasks such as number recognition, where understanding the underlying structure of the data can help improve the accuracy of machine Xi algorithms.