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As a general and robust alternative to traditional mean regression models, quantile regression avoids the assumption of normally distributed errors, making it a versatile choice when modeling outcomes such as cognitive scores that typically…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-19 Rongke Lyu , Marina Vannucci , Suprateek Kundu

We propose a natural intrinsic extension of ridge regression from Euclidean spaces to general Riemannian manifolds for time-series prediction. Our approach combines Riemannian least-squares fitting via B\'ezier curves, empirical covariance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

Shape analysis and compuational anatomy both make use of sophisticated tools from infinite-dimensional differential manifolds and Riemannian geometry on spaces of functions. While comprehensive references for the mathematical foundations…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Martins Bruveris

In recent years, manifold learning has become increasingly popular as a tool for performing non-linear dimensionality reduction. This has led to the development of numerous algorithms of varying degrees of complexity that aim to recover man…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-03 Dominique Perraul-Joncas , Marina Meila

We propose regression models for curve-valued responses in two or more dimensions, where only the image but not the parametrization of the curves is of interest. Examples of such data are handwritten letters, movement paths or outlines of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-16 Lisa Steyer , Almond Stöcker , Sonja Greven

Many phenomena are naturally characterized by measuring continuous transformations such as shape changes in medicine or articulated systems in robotics. Modeling the variability in such datasets requires performing statistics on Lie groups,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Johannes Schade , Christoph von Tycowicz , Martin Hanik

In image set classification, a considerable advance has been made by modeling the original image sets by second order statistics or linear subspace, which typically lie on the Riemannian manifold. Specifically, they are Symmetric Positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Rui Wang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Kai-Xuan Chen , Josef Kittler

We tackle the problem of optimizing over all possible positive definite radial kernels on Riemannian manifolds for classification. Kernel methods on Riemannian manifolds have recently become increasingly popular in computer vision. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

Recent methods in geometric deep learning have introduced various neural networks to operate over data that lie on Riemannian manifolds. Such networks are often necessary to learn well over graphs with a hierarchical structure or to learn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Isay Katsman , Eric Ming Chen , Sidhanth Holalkere , Anna Asch , Aaron Lou , Ser-Nam Lim , Christopher De Sa

We reveal the phenomenon that ``naive'' multivariate local polynomial regression can adapt to local smooth lower dimensional structure in the sense that it achieves the optimal convergence rate for nonparametric estimation of regression…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Peter J. Bickel , Bo Li

It is often of interest to infer lower-dimensional structure underlying complex data. As a flexible class of non-linear structures, it is common to focus on Riemannian manifolds. Most existing manifold learning algorithms replace the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-27 David B Dunson , Nan Wu

Shape restricted regressions, including isotonic regression and concave regression as special cases, are studied using priors on Bernstein polynomials and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. These priors have large supports, select only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 I-Shou Chang , Li-Chu Chien , Chao A. Hsiung , Chi-Chung Wen , Yuh-Jenn Wu

In many applications, geodesic hierarchical models are adequate for the study of temporal observations. We employ such a model derived for manifold-valued data to Kendall's shape space. In particular, instead of the Sasaki metric, we adapt…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-07 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani , Hans-Christian Hege , Christoph von Tycowicz

Learning in Riemannian orbifolds is motivated by existing machine learning algorithms that directly operate on finite combinatorial structures such as point patterns, trees, and graphs. These methods, however, lack statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Brijnesh J. Jain , Klaus Obermayer

In this survey we present classical results on methods to use group actions to collapse manifolds to the orbit spaces while keeping some control on the curvature, and recent extensions of these constructions to the setting of singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Diego Corro

Deep Neural Networks are widely used for solving complex problems in several scientific areas, such as speech recognition, machine translation, image analysis. The strategies employed to investigate their theoretical properties mainly rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Alessandro Benfenati , Alessio Marta

In this work, we investigate Riemannian geometry based dimensionality reduction methods that respect the underlying manifold structure of the data. In particular, we focus on Principal Geodesic Analysis (PGA) as a nonlinear generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Alaa El Ichi , Khalide Jbilou

We introduce a wide and deep neural network for prediction of progression from patients with mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. Information from anatomical shape and tabular clinical data (demographics, biomarkers) are fused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Sebastian Pölsterl , Ignacio Sarasua , Benjamín Gutiérrez-Becker , Christian Wachinger

In this paper we introduce two new notions of sectional curvature for Riemannian manifolds with density. Under both notions of curvature we classify the constant curvature manifolds. We also prove generalizations of the theorems of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-27 William Wylie

Kernel methods have had great success in Statistics and Machine Learning. Despite their growing popularity, however, less effort has been drawn towards developing kernel based classification methods on Riemannian manifolds due to difficulty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-02 Hwiyoung Lee , Vic Patrangenaru