UMAP 0.6 Released: 3M arXiv Papers Embedded in Under 5 Minutes

leland_mcinnes · x · 2026-11-11

Leland McInnes announced UMAP 0.6. A new initialization, new optimizers and faster nearest-neighbour search make UMAP much faster and far better at large scale: on 3 million arXiv papers it finishes in under 5 minutes—before UMAP 0.5 has even found its nearest neighbours.

Related event: UMAP 0.6 Released: Major Speedups and Better Fidelity at Scale(12 posts)→

Original post →

More from Research

Research channel →