In plain words: WizMap turns huge sets of model-learned data points into a zoomable map, summarizing them at each zoom level so you can explore what the model learned. It handles millions of points right in a web browser, with no server needed.
Abstract · WizMap: Scalable Interactive Visualization for Exploring Large Machine Learning Embeddings
Machine learning models often learn latent embedding representations that capture the domain semantics of their training data. These embedding representations are valuable for interpreting trained models, building new models, and analyzing new datasets. However, interpreting and using embeddings can be challenging due to their opaqueness, high dimensionality, and the large size of modern datasets. To tackle these challenges, we present WizMap, an interactive visualization tool to help researchers and practitioners easily explore large embeddings. With a novel multi-resolution embedding summarization method and a familiar map-like interaction design, WizMap enables users to navigate and interpret embedding spaces with ease. Leveraging modern web technologies such as WebGL and Web Workers, WizMap scales to millions of embedding points directly in users' web browsers and computational notebooks without the need for dedicated backend servers. WizMap is open-source and available at the following public demo link: https://poloclub.github.io/wizmap.
Zijie J. Wang, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau
arXiv:2306.09328 · cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.CV, cs.HC · submitted Jun 15, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · 8 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to ACL 2023. For a demo video, see https://youtu.be/8fJG87QVceQ. For a live demo, see https://poloclub.github.io/wizmap. Code is available at https://github.com/poloclub/wizmap
Back in those days getting a few thousand documents visualized was the work of a national lab. Now we're a few orders of magnitude larger and universities are doing much of the work.
1 - https://in-spire.pnnl.gov/