Umap: Can I use custom distance as input for UMAP

[LiLin-biosoft]

I have a nxn distance matrix for n objects. Can I directly use this as input rather than letting UMAP calculate the distance? The R package UMAP accepts a distance matrix but I cannot find corresponding setting in python version. Thank you for your help

[jay-reynolds]

Yes, you can.
Set metric='precomputed' and then pass the distance matrix to fit() and then transform() or fit_transform().