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Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction - Myths, Dogmas and Problems

Mathematics of Data & Decisions

Speaker: Stefan Steinerberger, University of Washington
Location: 1025 PDSB
Start time: Tue, Apr 22 2025, 12:00PM

The purpose of this talk is to give a gentle (and mathematical!) introduction into a family of dimensionality reduction algorithms that have become very popular (including t-SNE, UMAP and others).  We'll survey some of the underlying ideas, what we know and what we don't know. There'll be a fair number of open problems, the theory is in its infancy.