方法对比

	层次聚类	主成分分析	UMAP
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	2018
提出者	Ward, J. H.	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	McInnes, L.; Healy, J.; Melville, J.
类型	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Nonlinear manifold-learning dimension reduction
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.	McInnes, L., Healy, J. & Melville, J. (2018). UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction. arXiv:1802.03426.
别名	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection), uniform manifold approximation and projection, manifold dimension reduction
相关	4	3	5
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.	UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection) is a fast, scalable nonlinear dimension-reduction method grounded in manifold-learning theory, introduced by McInnes, Healy and Melville in 2018. It compresses high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional embedding for visualisation and downstream analysis.