Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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If you understand the main ideas of how UMAP works and want to dive in deeper, this 'Quest is for you!!! It also highlights some of the more subtle differences between UMAP and t-SNE. BAM!

NOTE: This StatQuest assumes that you are already familiar with the main ideas of how UMAP works...
youtu.be/eN0wFzBA4Sc
...and with how Gradient Descent and Stochastic Gradient Descent work...
youtu.be/sDv4f4s2SB8
youtu.be/vMh0zPT0tLI

And if you're not already familiar with t-SNE and want to learn more, check out...
youtu.be/NEaUSP4YerM

ALSO NOTE: This StatQuest is based on the original UMAP manuscript...
arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03426.pdf
...specifically Appendix C, From t-SNE to UMAP, which is also here...
jlmelville.github.io/uwot/umap-for-tsne.html
...and the UMAP user documentation...
umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parameters.html

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0:00 Awesome song and introduction
1:48 Calculating high-dimensional similarity scores
6:50 Making the scores symmetrical
8:47 Calculating low-dimensional similarity scores
10:41 Moving the low-dimensional points

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