Geometric manifold learning methods and collective variables

Marina Meila
University of Washington
Statistics

In recent years, manifold learning has become increasingly popular as a tool for performing non-linear dimensionality reduction and for discovering collective variables. I will present a set of advanced manifold learning methods, that all aim to uncover and preserve the geometric properties of the data.

Among these will be a method to estimate vector fields on a manifold, estimation of the kernel width and intrinsic dimension, a relaxation method to remove distortions induced by the embedding algorithms. These methods all build on on the Diffusion maps framework, and exploit the relationship between the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the Riemannian metric on a manifold.

Finally, I will show some preliminary results of finding low dimensinal embeddings of molecular fingerprints.

Joint work with Dominique Perrault-Joncas, James McQueen, Jacob VanderPlas, Zhongyue Zhang, Grace Telford, Oles Isayev, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Stefan Chmiela

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