All the clusters above were done on the “raw” dimensions (21d) as I would imagine using it such a way where that is what’s in the fluid.kdtree~
as well. In other words, in this case the UMAP is just for visualization.
I haven’t played with this much at all really, but I anticipate using kmeans and such independently of any reduction, or rather avoiding reduction in general for real-time use since it’d be “slower” (the fitting of umap/etc…, but also all the pruning/peeking/composing around the process).
This sounds really interesting, but I fear by this you just mean just scaling min/max-type things (or std), as opposed to more elastically “distorting” the space, which is of definite interest.