AI RESEARCH

Beyond Explained Variance: A Cautionary Tale of PCA

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.13520v1 Announce Type: cross We address shortcomings of principal component analysis (PCA) for visualizing high-dimensional data lying on a nonlinear low-dimensional manifold via two-dimensional scatterplots, focusing on a fossil teeth dataset from the early mammalian insectivore Kuehneotherium.