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UMAP

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
BSD-3-Clause(OSI)
source
public(github.com/lmcinnes/umap)
core features withheld
no — maintained by its author

BSD-3-Clause and built from the public repository, which its author maintains. There is no company, paid tier or commercial edition behind it.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

Measured on monthly PyPI downloads of umap-learn, the package name the project publishes under.

Capability

2 high confidence
2.0

UMAP does one thing, embedding data in fewer dimensions, and its variants all build on that method. It is usually one step in a pipeline assembled with other tools, such as HDBSCAN for clustering the embedding.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lmcinnes/umap/master/README.rst recorded 2026-09-27

    README: "Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a dimension reduction technique that can be used for visualisation similarly to t-SNE, but also for general non-linear dimension reduction."; "UMAP supports supervised and semi-supervised dimension reduction"; "Parametric UMAP provides support for training a neural network to learn a UMAP based transformation of data."

  • https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html recorded 2026-09-27

    API reference documents the umap.umap_.UMAP estimator with fit, fit_transform, transform and inverse_transform.