There's some work[0] that argues that UMAP's performance relative to t-SNE is not that great when you control for the initialization. I'm not sure where I sit

There's some work[0] that argues that UMAP's performance relative to t-SNE is not that great when you control for the initialization. I'm not sure where I sit on that, but regardless, my understanding is that getting UMAP to separate MNIST doesnt really require you to turn knobs. [0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.19.877522v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.19.877522v1