// ◇ Classical Machine Learning
UMAP
A faster dimensionality reduction that better preserves global structure.
2018 Foundational extended
IN PLAIN WORDS
Builds a fuzzy neighbor graph from manifold theory and optimizes a similar low-dimensional graph. Fast and scalable to millions of points.
Used in: Embedding visualization, bioinformatics
01Original paper
UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
Leland McInnes, John Healy, James Melville · 2018
arXiv ↗ ✓ Verified · arXiv API
02Where it sits
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03Learning resources
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04Where the course teaches it
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- Verification: verified, checked 2026-10-22.
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umap)