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by mike_ivanov 893 days ago
Why 2D? (edit: just the vis or there is some other reason?)
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minimaxir 893 days ago
Both the viz, and that the 2D UMAP projection is actually enough to get accurately delineated topics.

Hence why I think the typical embedding dimensionality is way way too high.

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markisus 893 days ago
Do you think 1D could work? Maybe topic-space is some sort of tree-shaped structure where documents live in the thin strands.
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minimaxir 893 days ago
1D could work on certain datasets but it wouldn't be ideal.
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adammarples 893 days ago
Why not just embed directly to 2d? Does it give worse results than UMAP?
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