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20192025
most citedOn UMAP's true loss function

15 citations · 29 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2025

Low-dimensional embeddings of high-dimensional data

Cyril de Bodt, Alex Diaz-Papkovich, Michael Bleher +18

Large collections of high-dimensional data have become nearly ubiquitous across many academic fields and application domains, ranging from biology to the humanities. Since working…

cs.LG2025

DREAMS: Preserving both Local and Global Structure in Dimensionality Reduction

Noël Kury, Dmitry Kobak, Sebastian Damrich

Dimensionality reduction techniques are widely used for visualizing high-dimensional data in two dimensions. Existing methods are typically designed to preserve either local (e.g.,…

q-bio.NC2025

TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time-series data in neuroscience

Lisa Schmors, Dominic Gonschorek, Jan Niklas Böhm +9

Modern neural recording techniques such as two-photon imaging or Neuropixel probes allow to acquire vast time-series datasets with responses of hundreds or thousands of neurons. Co…

cs.LG2025

Node Embeddings via Neighbor Embeddings

Jan Niklas Böhm, Marius Keute, Alica Guzmán +3

Node embeddings are a paradigm in non-parametric graph representation learning, where graph nodes are embedded into a given vector space to enable downstream processing. State-of-t…

cs.LG2025

On the Importance of Embedding Norms in Self-Supervised Learning

Andrew Draganov, Sharvaree Vadgama, Sebastian Damrich +4

Self-supervised learning (SSL) allows training data representations without a supervised signal and has become an important paradigm in machine learning. Most SSL methods employ th…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Persistent Homology for High-dimensional Data Based on Spectral Methods

Sebastian Damrich, Philipp Berens, Dmitry Kobak

Persistent homology is a popular computational tool for analyzing the topology of point clouds, such as the presence of loops or voids. However, many real-world datasets with low i…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Geometric Autoencoders -- What You See is What You Decode

Philipp Nazari, Sebastian Damrich, Fred A. Hamprecht

Visualization is a crucial step in exploratory data analysis. One possible approach is to train an autoencoder with low-dimensional latent space. Large network depth and width can…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

From -SNE to UMAP with contrastive learning

Sebastian Damrich, Jan Niklas Böhm, Fred A. Hamprecht +1

Neighbor embedding methods -SNE and UMAP are the de facto standard for visualizing high-dimensional datasets. Motivated from entirely different viewpoints, their loss functions…

cs.LG2021★ 15 cited

On UMAP's true loss function

Sebastian Damrich, Fred A. Hamprecht

UMAP has supplanted t-SNE as state-of-the-art for visualizing high-dimensional datasets in many disciplines, but the reason for its success is not well understood. In this work, we…

q-bio.QM2021★ 5 cited

Visualizing hierarchies in scRNA-seq data using a density tree-biased autoencoder

Quentin Garrido, Sebastian Damrich, Alexander Jäger +4

Motivation: Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data makes studying the development of cells possible at unparalleled resolution. Given that many cellular differentiation proces…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

MultiStar: Instance Segmentation of Overlapping Objects with Star-Convex Polygons

Florin C. Walter, Sebastian Damrich, Fred A. Hamprecht

Instance segmentation of overlapping objects in biomedical images remains a largely unsolved problem. We take up this challenge and present MultiStar, an extension to the popular i…

cs.DS2019★ 1 cited

Probabilistic Watershed: Sampling all spanning forests for seeded segmentation and semi-supervised learning

Enrique Fita Sanmartin, Sebastian Damrich, Fred A. Hamprecht

The seeded Watershed algorithm / minimax semi-supervised learning on a graph computes a minimum spanning forest which connects every pixel / unlabeled node to a seed / labeled node…