build_umap_graph: Builds a UMAP graph
In ParkerICI/scgraphs: Analyzing single-cell data using graphs

Builds a UMAP graph

1	build_umap_graph(tab, col.names, ...)

tab

A data.frame of graph nodes. All the columns of tab will become vertex properties of the output graph

col.names

A character vector indicating which columns of tab should be used to calculate distances

...

Arguments passed on to uwot::umap

X

Input data. Can be a data.frame, matrix, dist object or sparseMatrix. Matrix and data frames should contain one observation per row. Data frames will have any non-numeric columns removed, although factor columns will be used if explicitly included via metric (see the help for metric for details). A sparse matrix is interpreted as a distance matrix, and is assumed to be symmetric, so you can also pass in an explicitly upper or lower triangular sparse matrix to save storage. There must be at least n_neighbors non-zero distances for each row. Both implicit and explicit zero entries are ignored. Set zero distances you want to keep to an arbitrarily small non-zero value (e.g. 1e-10). X can also be NULL if pre-computed nearest neighbor data is passed to nn_method, and init is not "spca" or "pca".

n_neighbors

The size of local neighborhood (in terms of number of neighboring sample points) used for manifold approximation. Larger values result in more global views of the manifold, while smaller values result in more local data being preserved. In general values should be in the range 2 to 100.

n_components

The dimension of the space to embed into. This defaults to 2 to provide easy visualization, but can reasonably be set to any integer value in the range 2 to 100.

metric

Type of distance metric to use to find nearest neighbors. One of:

"euclidean" (the default)
"cosine"
"manhattan"
"hamming"
"correlation" (a distance based on the Pearson correlation)
"categorical" (see below)

Only applies if nn_method = "annoy" (for nn_method = "fnn", the distance metric is always "euclidean").

If X is a data frame or matrix, then multiple metrics can be specified, by passing a list to this argument, where the name of each item in the list is one of the metric names above. The value of each list item should be a vector giving the names or integer ids of the columns to be included in a calculation, e.g. metric = list(euclidean = 1:4, manhattan = 5:10).

Each metric calculation results in a separate fuzzy simplicial set, which are intersected together to produce the final set. Metric names can be repeated. Because non-numeric columns are removed from the data frame, it is safer to use column names than integer ids.

Factor columns can also be used by specifying the metric name "categorical". Factor columns are treated different from numeric columns and although multiple factor columns can be specified in a vector, each factor column specified is processed individually. If you specify a non-factor column, it will be coerced to a factor.

For a given data block, you may override the pca and pca_center arguments for that block, by providing a list with one unnamed item containing the column names or ids, and then any of the pca or pca_center overrides as named items, e.g. metric = list(euclidean = 1:4, manhattan = list(5:10, pca_center = FALSE)). This exists to allow mixed binary and real-valued data to be included and to have PCA applied to both, but with centering applied only to the real-valued data (it is typical not to apply centering to binary data before PCA is applied).

n_epochs

Number of epochs to use during the optimization of the embedded coordinates. By default, this value is set to 500 for datasets containing 10,000 vertices or less, and 200 otherwise. If n_epochs = 0, then coordinates determined by "init" will be returned.

learning_rate

Initial learning rate used in optimization of the coordinates.

scale

Scaling to apply to X if it is a data frame or matrix:

"none" or FALSE or NULL No scaling.
"Z" or "scale" or TRUE Scale each column to zero mean and variance 1.
"maxabs" Center each column to mean 0, then divide each element by the maximum absolute value over the entire matrix.
"range" Range scale the entire matrix, so the smallest element is 0 and the largest is 1.
"colrange" Scale each column in the range (0,1).

For UMAP, the default is "none".

init

Type of initialization for the coordinates. Options are:

"spectral" Spectral embedding using the normalized Laplacian of the fuzzy 1-skeleton, with Gaussian noise added.
"normlaplacian". Spectral embedding using the normalized Laplacian of the fuzzy 1-skeleton, without noise.
"random". Coordinates assigned using a uniform random distribution between -10 and 10.
"lvrandom". Coordinates assigned using a Gaussian distribution with standard deviation 1e-4, as used in LargeVis (Tang et al., 2016) and t-SNE.
"laplacian". Spectral embedding using the Laplacian Eigenmap (Belkin and Niyogi, 2002).
"pca". The first two principal components from PCA of X if X is a data frame, and from a 2-dimensional classical MDS if X is of class "dist".
"spca". Like "pca", but each dimension is then scaled so the standard deviation is 1e-4, to give a distribution similar to that used in t-SNE. This is an alias for init = "pca", init_sdev = 1e-4.
"agspectral" An "approximate global" modification of "spectral" which all edges in the graph to a value of 1, and then sets a random number of edges (negative_sample_rate edges per vertex) to 0.1, to approximate the effect of non-local affinities.
A matrix of initial coordinates.

For spectral initializations, ("spectral", "normlaplacian", "laplacian"), if more than one connected component is identified, each connected component is initialized separately and the results are merged. If verbose = TRUE the number of connected components are logged to the console. The existence of multiple connected components implies that a global view of the data cannot be attained with this initialization. Either a PCA-based initialization or increasing the value of n_neighbors may be more appropriate.

init_sdev

If non-NULL, scales each dimension of the initialized coordinates (including any user-supplied matrix) to this standard deviation. By default no scaling is carried out, except when init = "spca", in which case the value is 0.0001. Scaling the input may help if the unscaled versions result in initial coordinates with large inter-point distances or outliers. This usually results in small gradients during optimization and very little progress being made to the layout. Shrinking the initial embedding by rescaling can help under these circumstances. Scaling the result of init = "pca" is usually recommended and init = "spca" as an alias for init = "pca", init_sdev = 1e-4 but for the spectral initializations the scaled versions usually aren't necessary unless you are using a large value of n_neighbors (e.g. n_neighbors = 150 or higher).

spread

The effective scale of embedded points. In combination with min_dist, this determines how clustered/clumped the embedded points are.

min_dist

The effective minimum distance between embedded points. Smaller values will result in a more clustered/clumped embedding where nearby points on the manifold are drawn closer together, while larger values will result on a more even dispersal of points. The value should be set relative to the spread value, which determines the scale at which embedded points will be spread out.

set_op_mix_ratio

Interpolate between (fuzzy) union and intersection as the set operation used to combine local fuzzy simplicial sets to obtain a global fuzzy simplicial sets. Both fuzzy set operations use the product t-norm. The value of this parameter should be between 0.0 and 1.0; a value of 1.0 will use a pure fuzzy union, while 0.0 will use a pure fuzzy intersection.

local_connectivity

The local connectivity required – i.e. the number of nearest neighbors that should be assumed to be connected at a local level. The higher this value the more connected the manifold becomes locally. In practice this should be not more than the local intrinsic dimension of the manifold.

bandwidth

The effective bandwidth of the kernel if we view the algorithm as similar to Laplacian Eigenmaps. Larger values induce more connectivity and a more global view of the data, smaller values concentrate more locally.

repulsion_strength

Weighting applied to negative samples in low dimensional embedding optimization. Values higher than one will result in greater weight being given to negative samples.

negative_sample_rate

The number of negative edge/1-simplex samples to use per positive edge/1-simplex sample in optimizing the low dimensional embedding.

a

More specific parameters controlling the embedding. If NULL these values are set automatically as determined by min_dist and spread.

b

More specific parameters controlling the embedding. If NULL these values are set automatically as determined by min_dist and spread.

nn_method

Method for finding nearest neighbors. Options are:

"fnn". Use exact nearest neighbors via the FNN package.
"annoy" Use approximate nearest neighbors via the RcppAnnoy package.

By default, if X has less than 4,096 vertices, the exact nearest neighbors are found. Otherwise, approximate nearest neighbors are used. You may also pass precalculated nearest neighbor data to this argument. It must be a list consisting of two elements:

"idx". A n_vertices x n_neighbors matrix containing the integer indexes of the nearest neighbors in X. Each vertex is considered to be its own nearest neighbor, i.e. idx[, 1] == 1:n_vertices.
"dist". A n_vertices x n_neighbors matrix containing the distances of the nearest neighbors.

Multiple nearest neighbor data (e.g. from two different precomputed metrics) can be passed by passing a list containing the nearest neighbor data lists as items. The n_neighbors parameter is ignored when using precomputed nearest neighbor data.

n_trees

Number of trees to build when constructing the nearest neighbor index. The more trees specified, the larger the index, but the better the results. With search_k, determines the accuracy of the Annoy nearest neighbor search. Only used if the nn_method is "annoy". Sensible values are between 10 to 100.

search_k

Number of nodes to search during the neighbor retrieval. The larger k, the more the accurate results, but the longer the search takes. With n_trees, determines the accuracy of the Annoy nearest neighbor search. Only used if the nn_method is "annoy".

approx_pow

If TRUE, use an approximation to the power function in the UMAP gradient, from https://martin.ankerl.com/2012/01/25/optimized-approximative-pow-in-c-and-cpp/.

y

Optional target data for supervised dimension reduction. Can be a vector, matrix or data frame. Use the target_metric parameter to specify the metrics to use, using the same syntax as metric. Usually either a single numeric or factor column is used, but more complex formats are possible. The following types are allowed:

Factor columns with the same length as X. NA is allowed for any observation with an unknown level, in which case UMAP operates as a form of semi-supervised learning. Each column is treated separately.
Numeric data. NA is not allowed in this case. Use the parameter target_n_neighbors to set the number of neighbors used with y. If unset, n_neighbors is used. Unlike factors, numeric columns are grouped into one block unless target_metric specifies otherwise. For example, if you wish columns a and b to be treated separately, specify target_metric = list(euclidean = "a", euclidean = "b"). Otherwise, the data will be effectively treated as a matrix with two columns.
Nearest neighbor data, consisting of a list of two matrices, idx and dist. These represent the precalculated nearest neighbor indices and distances, respectively. This is the same format as that expected for precalculated data in nn_method. This format assumes that the underlying data was a numeric vector. Any user-supplied value of the target_n_neighbors parameter is ignored in this case, because the the number of columns in the matrices is used for the value. Multiple nearest neighbor data using different metrics can be supplied by passing a list of these lists.

Unlike X, all factor columns included in y are automatically used.

target_n_neighbors

Number of nearest neighbors to use to construct the target simplicial set. Default value is n_neighbors. Applies only if y is non-NULL and numeric.

target_metric

The metric used to measure distance for y if using supervised dimension reduction. Used only if y is numeric.

target_weight

Weighting factor between data topology and target topology. A value of 0.0 weights entirely on data, a value of 1.0 weights entirely on target. The default of 0.5 balances the weighting equally between data and target. Only applies if y is non-NULL.

pca

If set to a positive integer value, reduce data to this number of columns using PCA. Doesn't applied if the distance metric is "hamming", or the dimensions of the data is larger than the number specified (i.e. number of rows and columns must be larger than the value of this parameter). If you have > 100 columns in a data frame or matrix, reducing the number of columns in this way may substantially increase the performance of the nearest neighbor search at the cost of a potential decrease in accuracy. In many t-SNE applications, a value of 50 is recommended, although there's no guarantee that this is appropriate for all settings.

pca_center

If TRUE, center the columns of X before carrying out PCA. For binary data, it's recommended to set this to FALSE.

pcg_rand

If TRUE, use the PCG random number generator (O'Neill, 2014) during optimization. Otherwise, use the faster (but probably less statistically good) Tausworthe "taus88" generator. The default is TRUE.

fast_sgd

If TRUE, then the following combination of parameters is set: pcg_rand = TRUE, n_sgd_threads = "auto" and approx_pow = TRUE. The default is FALSE. Setting this to TRUE will speed up the stochastic optimization phase, but give a potentially less accurate embedding, and which will not be exactly reproducible even with a fixed seed. For visualization, fast_sgd = TRUE will give perfectly good results. For more generic dimensionality reduction, it's safer to leave fast_sgd = FALSE. If fast_sgd = TRUE, then user-supplied values of pcg_rand, n_sgd_threads, and approx_pow are ignored.

ret_model

If TRUE, then return extra data that can be used to add new data to an existing embedding via umap_transform. The embedded coordinates are returned as the list item embedding. If FALSE, just return the coordinates. This parameter can be used in conjunction with ret_nn and ret_extra. Note that some settings are incompatible with the production of a UMAP model: external neighbor data (passed via a list to nn_method), and factor columns that were included via the metric parameter. In the latter case, the model produced is based only on the numeric data. A transformation using new data is possible, but the factor columns in the new data are ignored.

ret_nn

If TRUE, then in addition to the embedding, also return nearest neighbor data that can be used as input to nn_method to avoid the overhead of repeatedly calculating the nearest neighbors when manipulating unrelated parameters (e.g. min_dist, n_epochs, init). See the "Value" section for the names of the list items. If FALSE, just return the coordinates. Note that the nearest neighbors could be sensitive to data scaling, so be wary of reusing nearest neighbor data if modifying the scale parameter. This parameter can be used in conjunction with ret_model and ret_extra.

ret_extra

A vector indicating what extra data to return. May contain any combination of the following strings:

"model" Same as setting 'ret_model = TRUE'.
"nn" Same as setting 'ret_nn = TRUE'.
"fgraph" the high dimensional fuzzy graph (i.e. the fuzzy simplicial set of the merged local views of the input data). The graph is returned as a sparse symmetric N x N matrix of class dgCMatrix-class, where a non-zero entry (i, j) gives the membership strength of the edge connecting vertex i and vertex j. This can be considered analogous to the input probability (or similarity or affinity) used in t-SNE and LargeVis. Note that the graph is further sparsified by removing edges with sufficiently low membership strength that they would not be sampled by the probabilistic edge sampling employed for optimization and therefore the number of non-zero elements in the matrix is dependent on n_epochs. If you are only interested in the fuzzy input graph (e.g. for clustering), setting 'n_epochs = 0' will avoid any further sparsifying.

n_threads

Number of threads to use (except during stochastic gradient descent). Default is half the number of concurrent threads supported by the system. For nearest neighbor search, only applies if nn_method = "annoy". If n_threads > 1, then the Annoy index will be temporarily written to disk in the location determined by tempfile.

n_sgd_threads

Number of threads to use during stochastic gradient descent. If set to > 1, then results will not be reproducible, even if 'set.seed' is called with a fixed seed before running. Set to "auto" go use the same value as n_threads.

grain_size

The minimum amount of work to do on each thread. If this value is set high enough, then less than n_threads or n_sgd_threads will be used for processing, which might give a performance improvement if the overhead of thread management and context switching was outweighing the improvement due to concurrent processing. This should be left at default (1) and work will be spread evenly over all the threads specified.

tmpdir

Temporary directory to store nearest neighbor indexes during nearest neighbor search. Default is tempdir. The index is only written to disk if n_threads > 1 and nn_method = "annoy"; otherwise, this parameter is ignored.

verbose