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Re:Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to t... by staticautomatic on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:03PM (#44023946)
I’ve had much better luck with umap than PCA and t-sne for reducing embeddings.
Re:Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to t... by patcon on Sunday May 18, 2025 @06:43PM (#44024851)
PaCMAP (and its descendant localmap) are comparable to t-sne at preserving both local and global structure (but without messing much with finicky hyperparameters)

https://youtu.be/sD-uDZ8zXkc