scholarly journals A novel metric reveals previously unrecognized distortion in dimensionality reduction of scRNA-Seq data

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamus M. Cooley ◽  
Timothy Hamilton ◽  
J. Christian J. Ray ◽  
Eric J. Deeds

AbstractHigh-dimensional data are becoming increasingly common in nearly all areas of science. Developing approaches to analyze these data and understand their meaning is a pressing issue. This is particularly true for the rapidly growing field of single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq), a technique that simultaneously measures the expression of tens of thousands of genes in thousands to millions of single cells. The emerging consensus for analysis workflows reduces the dimensionality of the dataset before performing downstream analysis, such as assignment of cell types. One problem with this approach is that dimensionality reduction can introduce substantial distortion into the data; consider the familiar example of trying to represent the three-dimensional earth as a two-dimensional map. It is currently unclear if such distortion affects analysis of scRNA-Seq data sets. Here, we introduce a straightforward approach to quantifying this distortion by comparing the local neighborhoods of points before and after dimensionality reduction. We found that popular techniques like t-SNE and UMAP introduce substantial distortion even for relatively simple geometries such as simulated hyperspheres. For scRNA-Seq data, we found the distortion in local neighborhoods was often greater than 95% in the representations typically used for downstream analysis. This high level of distortion can readily introduce important errors into cell type identification, pseudotime ordering, and other analyses that rely on local relationships. We found that principal component analysis can generate accurate embeddings of the data, but only when using dimensionalities that are much higher than typically used in scRNA-Seq analysis. We suggest approaches to take these findings into account and call for a new generation of dimensional reduction algorithms that can accurately embed high dimensional data in its true latent dimension.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (S3) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
T. Sudha ◽  
P. Nagendra Kumar

Data mining is one of the major areas of research. Clustering is one of the main functionalities of datamining. High dimensionality is one of the main issues of clustering and Dimensionality reduction can be used as a solution to this problem. The present work makes a comparative study of dimensionality reduction techniques such as t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding and probabilistic principal component analysis in the context of clustering. High dimensional data have been reduced to low dimensional data using dimensionality reduction techniques such as t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding and probabilistic principal component analysis. Cluster analysis has been performed on the high dimensional data as well as the low dimensional data sets obtained through t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding and Probabilistic principal component analysis with varying number of clusters. Mean squared error; time and space have been considered as parameters for comparison. The results obtained show that time taken to convert the high dimensional data into low dimensional data using probabilistic principal component analysis is higher than the time taken to convert the high dimensional data into low dimensional data using t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding.The space required by the data set reduced through Probabilistic principal component analysis is less than the storage space required by the data set reduced through t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding.


Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mujtaba Husnain ◽  
Malik Missen ◽  
Shahzad Mumtaz ◽  
Muhammad Luqman ◽  
Mickaël Coustaty ◽  
...  

We applied t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) to visualize Urdu handwritten numerals (or digits). The data set used consists of 28 × 28 images of handwritten Urdu numerals. The data set was created by inviting authors from different categories of native Urdu speakers. One of the challenging and critical issues for the correct visualization of Urdu numerals is shape similarity between some of the digits. This issue was resolved using t-SNE, by exploiting local and global structures of the large data set at different scales. The global structure consists of geometrical features and local structure is the pixel-based information for each class of Urdu digits. We introduce a novel approach that allows the fusion of these two independent spaces using Euclidean pairwise distances in a highly organized and principled way. The fusion matrix embedded with t-SNE helps to locate each data point in a two (or three-) dimensional map in a very different way. Furthermore, our proposed approach focuses on preserving the local structure of the high-dimensional data while mapping to a low-dimensional plane. The visualizations produced by t-SNE outperformed other classical techniques like principal component analysis (PCA) and auto-encoders (AE) on our handwritten Urdu numeral dataset.


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junpeng Wang ◽  
Xiaotong Liu ◽  
Han-Wei Shen

Due to the intricate relationship between different dimensions of high-dimensional data, subspace analysis is often conducted to decompose dimensions and give prominence to certain subsets of dimensions, i.e. subspaces. Exploring and comparing subspaces are important to reveal the underlying features of subspaces, as well as to portray the characteristics of individual dimensions. To date, most of the existing high-dimensional data exploration and analysis approaches rely on dimensionality reduction algorithms (e.g. principal component analysis and multi-dimensional scaling) to project high-dimensional data, or their subspaces, to two-dimensional space and employ scatterplots for visualization. However, the dimensionality reduction algorithms are sometimes difficult to fine-tune and scatterplots are not effective for comparative visualization, making subspace comparison hard to perform. In this article, we aggregate high-dimensional data or their subspaces by computing pair-wise distances between all data items and showing the distances with matrix visualizations to present the original high-dimensional data or subspaces. Our approach enables effective visual comparisons among subspaces, which allows users to further investigate the characteristics of individual dimensions by studying their behaviors in similar subspaces. Through subspace comparisons, we identify dominant, similar, and conforming dimensions in different subspace contexts of synthetic and real-world high-dimensional data sets. Additionally, we present a prototype that integrates parallel coordinates plot and matrix visualization for high-dimensional data exploration and incremental dimensionality analysis, which also allows users to further validate the dimension characterization results derived from the subspace comparisons.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Hoan Do ◽  
Stefan Canzar

AbstractEmerging single-cell technologies profile multiple types of molecules within individual cells. A fundamental step in the analysis of the produced high-dimensional data is their visualization using dimensionality reduction techniques such as t-SNE and UMAP. We introduce j-SNE and j-UMAP as their natural generalizations to the joint visualization of multimodal omics data. Our approach automatically learns the relative contribution of each modality to a concise representation of cellular identity that promotes discriminative features but suppresses noise. On eight datasets, j-SNE and j-UMAP produce unified embeddings that better agree with known cell types and that harmonize RNA and protein velocity landscapes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sai Kiranmayee Samudrala ◽  
Jaroslaw Zola ◽  
Srinivas Aluru ◽  
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Dimensionality reduction refers to a set of mathematical techniques used to reduce complexity of the original high-dimensional data, while preserving its selected properties. Improvements in simulation strategies and experimental data collection methods are resulting in a deluge of heterogeneous and high-dimensional data, which often makes dimensionality reduction the only viable way to gain qualitative and quantitative understanding of the data. However, existing dimensionality reduction software often does not scale to datasets arising in real-life applications, which may consist of thousands of points with millions of dimensions. In this paper, we propose a parallel framework for dimensionality reduction of large-scale data. We identify key components underlying the spectral dimensionality reduction techniques, and propose their efficient parallel implementation. We show that the resulting framework can be used to process datasets consisting of millions of points when executed on a 16,000-core cluster, which is beyond the reach of currently available methods. To further demonstrate applicability of our framework we perform dimensionality reduction of 75,000 images representing morphology evolution during manufacturing of organic solar cells in order to identify how processing parameters affect morphology evolution.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-437
Author(s):  
Genggeng Liu ◽  
Lin Xie ◽  
Chi-Hua Chen

Dimensionality reduction plays an important role in the data processing of machine learning and data mining, which makes the processing of high-dimensional data more efficient. Dimensionality reduction can extract the low-dimensional feature representation of high-dimensional data, and an effective dimensionality reduction method can not only extract most of the useful information of the original data, but also realize the function of removing useless noise. The dimensionality reduction methods can be applied to all types of data, especially image data. Although the supervised learning method has achieved good results in the application of dimensionality reduction, its performance depends on the number of labeled training samples. With the growing of information from internet, marking the data requires more resources and is more difficult. Therefore, using unsupervised learning to learn the feature of data has extremely important research value. In this paper, an unsupervised multilayered variational auto-encoder model is studied in the text data, so that the high-dimensional feature to the low-dimensional feature becomes efficient and the low-dimensional feature can retain mainly information as much as possible. Low-dimensional feature obtained by different dimensionality reduction methods are used to compare with the dimensionality reduction results of variational auto-encoder (VAE), and the method can be significantly improved over other comparison methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1661-1671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich Kammer ◽  
Mandy Keck ◽  
Thomas Grunder ◽  
Alexander Maasch ◽  
Thomas Thom ◽  
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