FADEx: Feature Attribution and Distortion-based Explanation of Dimensionality Reduction

arXiv:2607.27463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dimensionality Reduction (DR) is a fundamental tool for high-dimensional data exploration, reducing the complexity of latent spaces of machine learning models, and assisting in the explanation of complex opaque models. However, non-linear DR techniques often function as opaque transformations themselves, making it challenging to understand how individual features influence instance positioning in the reduced space. This lack of transparency complic...