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Writer's pictureAkseli Ilmanen

Variational Autoencoders, UMAP and birdsong

Updated: Feb 4




Using the paper Goffinet et al., 2021 and birdsong data, I explain how Variational Autoencoders and UMAP works. I also explore why UMAP is good at preserving the global structure of high-dimensional data.



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Original paper:

Jack GoffinetSamuel BrudnerRichard MooneyJohn Pearson (2021) Low-dimensional learned feature spaces quantify individual and group differences in vocal repertoires eLife 10:e67855.


Other useful resources:

Coenen, A., & Pearce, A. (n.d.). Understanding UMAP.


Kobak, D. (Director). (2021, April 13). Manifold learning and t-SNE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRsk...


Oskolkov, N. (2021, March 10). How Exactly UMAP Works. Medium. https://towardsdatascience.com/how-ex...


Sainburg, T., Thielk, M., & Gentner, T. Q. (2020). Finding, visualizing, and quantifying latent structure across diverse animal vocal repertoires


Andreas Geiger: Variational Autoencoders YouTube Series


Other references see in slides

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