Home/ Tool index/ Latent Space Explorer
Launch ready Session 2 · Images Interactive

Latent Space Explorer

The machine shelves look-alikes together in a giant warehouse. Pick an example, walk to its shelf-mates, and find where the model's sense of 'alike' stops matching yours.

tools/latent-space-explorer/

Live preview · launch for the interactive version

§ A · What it makes visible

three hidden mechanisms
Fig. 01

Lenses

Switch the feature lens and watch which things the model considers close together change.

Fig. 02

Nearest neighbors

Select an example and read what the model shelved right next to it.

Fig. 03

The limits

Find the pairs the model calls similar that you wouldn't — representation is not neutral.

§ B · How to investigate it

run it like an experiment, not a toy
01 · Predict

Pick a neighbor first

Before switching lenses, predict what should sit next to your example.

guess: same category clusters
02 · Change one thing

Switch one lens

Change the lens only; keep the same example selected.

color lens → shape lens
03 · Compare evidence

Read the regrouping

Which neighbors appeared or vanished when the lens changed?

neighbors reshuffle by feature
04 · Name it

Name what 'similar' meant

Say which feature the model leaned on, and what it ignored.

similarity = the chosen lens

§ C · Debrief questions

after the investigation
What did the model treat as 'similar' that you wouldn't?
Which lens felt most like human judgment? Least?
What gets lost when meaning is reduced to distance?
Where would this similarity mislead a classroom?

§ D · Related

pairs well with · use in context