Alberto Bordino and Olga Klopp’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Statistical exploration of the Manifold Hypothesis’ by Whiteley et al.
Bordino 与 Klopp 对《流形假说的统计探索》的讨论
We congratulate the authors on an insightful, practice-grounded contribution showing how manifold-like structure can arise naturally from a broad latent metric space (LMS) model. We especially commend the ‘practice-first’ perspective: beginning with pipelines common among practitioners (e.g. PCA to moderate dimension, then t-SNE/UMAP), and then developing theory that explains why such workflows succeed. We shall now comment on a point where practitioners may require further…