This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy (MINECO) & FEDER funds from the EU (under grant DPI2015-69891-C2-1/2-R). This work was also supported by the Principado de Asturias government through the predoctoral grant "Severo Ochoa"
The analysis of the big volumes of data requires efficient and robust dimension reduction techniques to represent data into lower-dimensional spaces, which ease human understanding. This paper presents a study of the stability, robustness and performance of some of these dimension reduction algorithms with respect to algorithm and data parameters, which usually have a major influence in the resulting embeddings. This analysis includes the performance of a large panel of techniques on both artificial and real datasets, focusing on the geometrical variations experimented when changing different parameters. The results are presented by identifying the visual weaknesses of each technique, providing some suitable data-processing tasks to enhance the stability ; This work has been financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education and FEDER funds under grants DPI2009-13398-C02-01 and by the Government of Asturias. J.A.Lee is a Research Associate with the Belgian F.R.S.- FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique)
International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (13th. 2012. Coventry Univ, Otaniemi, Finland) ; This work has been financed by a grant from the Government of Asturias, under funds of Science, Technology and Innovation Plan of Asturias (PCTI), and by the spanish Ministry of Science and Education and FEDER funds under grants DPI2009-13398-C02-01