方法对比

	层次聚类	主成分分析	t-SNE
领域	机器学习	机器学习	机器学习
方法族	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
起源年份	1963	2002	2008
提出者	Ward, J. H.	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	van der Maaten, L. & Hinton, G.
类型	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Nonlinear dimensionality reduction (manifold visualization)
开创性文献	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.	van der Maaten, L. & Hinton, G. (2008). Visualizing Data using t-SNE. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9(86), 2579–2605.
别名	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	t-SNE (Boyut İndirgeme / Görselleştirme), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding, tsne
相关	4	3	3
摘要	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised dimensionality-reduction method — given its modern textbook treatment by Ian Jolliffe (2002) — that compresses high-dimensional data into fewer dimensions while preserving the maximum possible variance. It re-expresses correlated variables as a small set of uncorrelated principal components ordered by how much of the data's variation each one captures.	t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) is a nonlinear dimensionality-reduction method introduced by Laurens van der Maaten and Geoffrey Hinton in 2008 that maps high-dimensional data into a 2D or 3D space for visualization. It preserves probabilistic local similarities, so points that are neighbours in the original space stay close together, revealing cluster structure and local neighbourhoods.