SepEx: Visual Analysis of Class Separation Measures
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2020
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Class separation is an important concept in machine learning and visual analytics. However, the comparison of class separation for datasets with varying dimensionality is non-trivial, given a) the various possible structural characteristics of datasets and b) the plethora of separation measures that exist. Building upon recent findings in visualization research about the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of class separation for 2D dimensionally reduced data using scatterplots, this research addresses the visual analysis of class separation measures for high-dimensional data. We present SepEx, an interactive visualization approach for the assessment and comparison of class separation measures for multiple datasets. SepEx supports analysts with the comparison of multiple separation measures over many high-dimensional datasets, the effect of dimensionality reduction on measure outputs by supporting nD to 2D comparison, and the comparison of the effect of different dimensionality reduction methods on measure outputs. We demonstrate SepEx in a scenario on 100 two-class 5D datasets with a linearly increasing amount of separation between the classes, illustrating both similarities and nonlinearities across 11 measures.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurova.20201079,
booktitle = {EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)},
editor = {Turkay, Cagatay and Vrotsou, Katerina},
title = {{SepEx: Visual Analysis of Class Separation Measures}},
author = {Bernard, Jürgen and Hutter, Marco and Zeppelzauer, Matthias and Sedlmair, Michael and Munzner, Tamara},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2664-4487},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-116-8},
DOI = {10.2312/eurova.20201079}
}