Data Visualization with Category Theory and Geometry With a Critical Analysis and Refinement of UMAP

This open access book provides a robust exposition of the mathematical foundations of data representation, focusing on two essential pillars of dimensionality reduction methods, namely geometry in general and Riemannian geometry in particular, and category theory. Presenting a list of examples consi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barth, Lukas Silvester, Fahimi, Hannaneh, Joharinad, Parvaneh, Jost, Jürgen, Keck, Janis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2025
Series:Mathematics of Data
Subjects:
Algebra
Applied category theory
Computer science
Computing and Information Technology
Data visualization
Dimension reduction
Mathematical theory of computation
Mathematics
Mathematics and Science
Merging local metrics
Metric realization
Riemannian geometry
Simplicial complexes
UMAP
ISBN:3031979737, 9783031979736, 3031979729, 9783031979729
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This open access book provides a robust exposition of the mathematical foundations of data representation, focusing on two essential pillars of dimensionality reduction methods, namely geometry in general and Riemannian geometry in particular, and category theory. Presenting a list of examples consisting of both geometric objects and empirical datasets, this book provides insights into the different effects of dimensionality reduction techniques on data representation and visualization, with the aim of guiding the reader in understanding the expected results specific to each method in such scenarios. As a showcase, the dimensionality reduction method of “Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection” (UMAP) has been used in this book, as it is built on theoretical foundations from all the areas we want to highlight here. Thus, this book also aims to systematically present the details of constructing a metric representation of a locally distorted metric space, which is essentially the problem that UMAP is trying to address, from a more general perspective. Explaining how UMAP fits into this broader framework, while critically evaluating the underlying ideas, this book finally introduces an alternative algorithm to UMAP. This algorithm, called IsUMap, retains many of the positive features of UMAP, while improving on some of its drawbacks.
ISBN:3031979737
9783031979736
3031979729
9783031979729
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-97973-6