To be clear, LLE's weights are found via a linear solution involving 
covariances of local neighborhoods, which can be constructed from a 
matrix of pairwise distances in a way analogous to that of metric MDS.
   Jake

Matthieu Brucher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think some of the algorithms already offer this (Laplacian Eigenmaps 
> for instance).
> I'm -1 for LLE as LLE does not compute distances, but weights based on 
> the points directly.
>
> Matthieu
>
> 2011/9/21 Jacob VanderPlas <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>     Hello,
>     I recently was contacted by someone interested in using manifold
>     learning methods on abstract metric spaces: that is, the training data
>     is a matrix of pairwise distances rather than a set of points.  It
>     would
>     be fairly straightforward to implement this for basic LLE and Isomap,
>     and could probably be done for the other manifold methods as well.
>      Two
>     questions:
>     1) does this seem like a feature worth including in scikit-learn?  Are
>     there common use-cases people can think of?
>     2) any ideas about the best interface to allow this?  Because the
>     format
>     of the input is so different from the normal use-case, it may be
>     best to
>     make it a separate estimator.  Perhaps `MetricLLE`, `MetricIsomap` or
>     something similar.  Another option would be to have a keyword
>     similar to
>     the `kernel='precomputed'` option in `KernelPCA`.
>     Any thoughts?
>       Jake
>
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