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Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a widely used manifold learning technique for dimensionality reduction. This paper studies UMAP, supervised UMAP, and several competing dimensionality reduction methods, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Guanzhe Zhang , Shanshan Ding , Zhezhen Jin

We introduce ORC-ManL, a new algorithm to prune spurious edges from nearest neighbor graphs using a criterion based on Ollivier-Ricci curvature and estimated metric distortion. Our motivation comes from manifold learning: we show that when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tristan Luca Saidi , Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection) is a novel manifold learning technique for dimension reduction. UMAP is constructed from a theoretical framework based in Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology. The result is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-21 Leland McInnes , John Healy , James Melville

UMAP is a non-parametric graph-based dimensionality reduction algorithm using applied Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology to find low-dimensional embeddings of structured data. The UMAP algorithm consists of two steps: (1) Compute a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tim Sainburg , Leland McInnes , Timothy Q Gentner

Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is one of the state-of-the-art methods for dimensionality reduction and data visualization. This is a tutorial and survey paper on UMAP and its variants. We start with UMAP algorithm…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection) is among the most widely used algorithms for non linear dimensionality reduction and data visualisation. Despite its popularity, and despite being presented through the lens of algebraic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yang Yang

Topology based dimensionality reduction methods such as t-SNE and UMAP have seen increasing success and popularity in high-dimensional data. These methods have strong mathematical foundations and are based on the intuition that the topology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Ayush Dalmia , Suzanna Sia

In the BCI field, introspection and interpretation of brain signals are desired for providing feedback or to guide rapid paradigm prototyping but are challenging due to the high noise level and dimensionality of the signals. Deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Peter Wassenaar , Pierre Guetschel , Michael Tangermann

We present a new nonlinear dimensionality reduction method, MAPLE, that enhances UMAP by improving manifold modeling. MAPLE employs a self-supervised learning approach to more efficiently encode low-dimensional manifold geometry. Central to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zeyang Huang , Takanori Fujiwara , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Wandrille Duchemin , Andreas Kerren

Graph curvature provides geometric priors for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enhancing their ability to model complex graph structures, particularly in terms of structural awareness, robustness, and theoretical interpretability. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chaoqun Fei , Tinglve Zhou , Tianyong Hao , Yangyang Li

Nonlinear dimensional reduction with the manifold assumption, often called manifold learning, has proven its usefulness in a wide range of high-dimensional data analysis. The significant impact of t-SNE and UMAP has catalyzed intense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jungeum Kim , Xiao Wang

Dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques help analysts to understand patterns in high-dimensional spaces. These techniques, often represented by scatter plots, are employed in diverse science domains and facilitate similarity analysis among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wilson E. Marcílio-Jr , Danilo M. Eler , Fernando V. Paulovich , Rafael M. Martins

UMAP is a popular neighborhood-preserving dimension reduction (DR) algorithm. However, its application for graph drawing has not been evaluated. Moreover, a naive application of UMAP to graph drawing would include O(nm) time all-pair…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Amyra Meidiana , Seok-Hee Hong

Accurate and comprehensive 3D sensing using LiDAR systems is crucial for various applications in photogrammetry and robotics, including facility inspection, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and robot navigation. Motorized LiDAR systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jianping Li , Xinhang Xu , Jinxin Liu , Kun Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

High-dimensional data, characterized by many features, can be difficult to visualize effectively. Dimensionality reduction techniques, such as PCA, UMAP, and t-SNE, address this challenge by projecting the data into a lower-dimensional…

Manifold learning techniques for nonlinear dimension reduction assume that high-dimensional feature vectors lie on a low-dimensional manifold, then attempt to exploit manifold structure to obtain useful low-dimensional Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 Michael W. Trosset , Gokcen Buyukbas

In the machine learning field, dimensionality reduction is an important task. It mitigates the undesired properties of high-dimensional spaces to facilitate classification, compression, and visualization of high-dimensional data. During the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mohammed Elhenawy , Mahmoud Masoud , Sebastian Glaser , Andry Rakotonirainy

Recently manifold learning algorithm for dimensionality reduction attracts more and more interests, and various linear and nonlinear, global and local algorithms are proposed. The key step of manifold learning algorithm is the neighboring…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-14 Lin Ma , Caifa Zhou , Xi Liu , Yubin Xu

The Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) algorithm has become widely popular for its ease of use, quality of results, and support for exploratory, unsupervised, supervised, and semi-supervised learning. While many algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Corey J. Nolet , Victor Lafargue , Edward Raff , Thejaswi Nanditale , Tim Oates , John Zedlewski , Joshua Patterson

This work introduces IsUMap, a novel manifold learning technique that enhances data representation by integrating aspects of UMAP and Isomap with Vietoris-Rips filtrations. We present a systematic and detailed construction of a metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Lukas Silvester Barth , Fatemeh , Fahimi , Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost , Janis Keck
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