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We introduce multi-frequency vector diffusion maps (MFVDM), a new framework for organizing and analyzing high dimensional datasets. The new method is a mathematical and algorithmic generalization of vector diffusion maps (VDM) and other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao

We introduce the concept of Hypoelliptic Diffusion Maps (HDM), a framework generalizing Diffusion Maps in the context of manifold learning and dimensionality reduction. Standard non-linear dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., LLE,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Tingran Gao

Kernel-based non-linear dimensionality reduction methods, such as Local Linear Embedding (LLE) and Laplacian Eigenmaps, rely heavily upon pairwise distances or similarity scores, with which one can construct and study a weighted graph…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Tingran Gao

We propose a landmark-constrained algorithm, LA-VDM (Landmark Accelerated Vector Diffusion Maps), to accelerate the Vector Diffusion Maps (VDM) framework built upon the Graph Connection Laplacian (GCL), which captures pairwise connection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Sing-Yuan Yeh , Yi-An Wu , Hau-Tieng Wu , Mao-Pei Tsui

We introduce the Linearized Diffusion Map (LDM), a novel linear dimensionality reduction method constructed via a linear approximation of the diffusion-map kernel. LDM integrates the geometric intuition of diffusion-based nonlinear methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julio Candanedo

We introduce Hodge Diffusion Maps, a novel manifold learning algorithm designed to analyze and extract topological information from high-dimensional data-sets. This method approximates the exterior derivative acting on differential forms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Jorge Duque Franco

One of the fundamental problems within the field of machine learning is dimensionality reduction. Dimensionality reduction methods make it possible to combat the so-called curse of dimensionality, visualize high-dimensional data and, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Sergio García-Heredia , Ángela Fernández , Carlos M. Alaíz

We introduce the first method for generating Vector Displacement Maps (VDMs): parameterized, detailed geometric stamps commonly used in 3D modeling. Given a single input image, our method first generates multi-view normal maps and then…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuezhi Yang , Qimin Chen , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Qixing Huang , Zhiqin Chen

We introduce a novel diffusion-based spectral algorithm to tackle regression analysis on high-dimensional data, particularly data embedded within lower-dimensional manifolds. Traditional spectral algorithms often fall short in such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-21 Weichun Xia , Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi

Graph Laplacians and related nonlinear mappings into low dimensional spaces have been shown to be powerful tools for organizing high dimensional data. Here we consider a data set X in which the graph associated with it changes depending on…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Ronald R. Coifman , Matthew J. Hirn

We consider a collection of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ measured at $m$ times, which are encoded in an $n \times d \times m$ data tensor. Our objective is to define a single embedding of the $n$ points into Euclidean space which summarizes…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Nicholas F. Marshall , Matthew J. Hirn

Diffusion maps are a commonly used kernel-based method for manifold learning, which can reveal intrinsic structures in data and embed them in low dimensions. However, as with most kernel methods, its implementation requires a heavy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Scott Gigante , Jay S. Stanley , Ngan Vu , David van Dijk , Kevin Moon , Guy Wolf , Smita Krishnaswamy

Diffusion maps are an emerging data-driven technique for non-linear dimensionality reduction, which are especially useful for the analysis of coherent structures and nonlinear embeddings of dynamical systems. However, the computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 N. Benjamin Erichson , Lionel Mathelin , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Inspired by random walk on graphs, diffusion map (DM) is a class of unsupervised machine learning that offers automatic identification of low-dimensional data structure hidden in a high-dimensional dataset. In recent years, among its many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Ninnat Dangniam , Pantita Palittapongarnpim , Thiparat Chotibut

This work introduces the Grassmannian Diffusion Maps, a novel nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique that defines the affinity between points through their representation as low-dimensional subspaces corresponding to points on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 K. R. M. dos Santos , D. G. Giovanis , M. D. Shields

We propose a novel diffusion map particle system (DMPS) for generative modeling, based on diffusion maps and Laplacian-adjusted Wasserstein gradient descent (LAWGD). Diffusion maps are used to approximate the generator of the corresponding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-19 Fengyi Li , Youssef Marzouk

This is a tutorial and survey paper for nonlinear dimensionality and feature extraction methods which are based on the Laplacian of graph of data. We first introduce adjacency matrix, definition of Laplacian matrix, and the interpretation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-09 Benyamin Ghojogh , Ali Ghodsi , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Calculus and geometry are ubiquitous in the theoretical modelling of scientific phenomena, but have historically been very challenging to apply directly to real data as statistics. Diffusion geometry is a new theory that reformulates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Iolo Jones , David Lanners

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize a compact subset of the original data, enabling models trained on it to achieve performance comparable to those trained on the original large dataset. Existing distribution-matching methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xuhui Li , Zhengquan Luo , Zihui Cui , Zhiqiang Xu

In this paper, we propose Complex Diffusion Maps (CDM), a novel diffusion mapping framework that aims to reveal the dominant complex harmonics of high-dimensional data. Inspired by the local Gaussian kernel relevant to the heat equation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tongzhen Dang , Weiyang Ding , Michael K. Ng
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