Author:
            
                    Rodolphe Priam
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    University of Southampton, United Kingdom
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Data Visualization, Generative Model, Latent Variables, tSNE, Survey.
        
        
            
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                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Abstract Data Visualization
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                        Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
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                        General Data Visualization
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                        High-Dimensional Data and Dimensionality Reduction
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                        Information and Scientific Visualization
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                        Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                In data visualization, a family of methods is dedicated to the symmetric numerical matrices which contain the distances or similarities between high-dimensional data vectors. The method t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding and its variants lead to competitive nonlinear embeddings which are able to reveal the natural classes. For comparisons, it is surveyed the recent probabilistic and model-based alternative methods from the literature (LargeVis, Glove, Latent Space Position Model, probabilistic Correspondence Analysis, Stochastic Block Model) for nonlinear embedding via low dimensional positions.