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Re:Understanding UMAP (2019) by __mharrison__ on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:42PM (#40281386)
PCA for starting out
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Re:Understanding UMAP (2019) by roseway4 on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:44PM (#40281399)
PCA performs horribly on non-linear data.
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Re:Understanding UMAP (2019) by __mharrison__ on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:43AM (#40283018)
How will you know if you have non-linear data....
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Re:Understanding UMAP (2019) by cinntaile on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @12:41AM (#40282411)
As a sibling comment already mentioned that doesn't really work for non-linear data. UMAP and t-SNE are techniques used on non-linear data.
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