Differentiable Mapper for Topological Optimization of Data Representation
Now accepted at ICML 2024!
The Mapper algorithm has been known to be a powerful tool in visualization and data analytics, but suffers from dependence on many hand-turning parameters. In this work, we propose a relaxation and generalization of the Mapper so that the parameters can be optimized using gradient descent. Convergence results and applications are also provided.
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