The perplexity can be interpreted as a smooth measure of the effective number of neighbors. The performance of SNE is fairly robust to changes in the perplexity, and typical values are between 5 and 50. What this effective number of neighbors would mean? Should I understand perplexity value as expected number of nearest neighbors to the point …
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/379180/intuition-behind-perplexity-parameter-in-t-sne

