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This article presents an overview of robot learning and adaptive control applications that can benefit from a joint use of Riemannian geometry and probabilistic representations. The roles of Riemannian manifolds, geodesics and parallel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sylvain Calinon

The geodesics for a sub-Riemannian metric on a three-dimensional contact manifold $M$ form a 1-parameter family of curves along each contact direction. However, a collection of such contact curves on $M$, locally equivalent to the solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas A. Ivey

Wasserstein distance, especially among symmetric positive-definite matrices, has broad and deep influences on development of artificial intelligence (AI) and other branches of computer science. A natural idea is to describe the geometry of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yihao Luo , Shiqiang Zhang , Yueqi Cao , Huafei Sun

We propose a geometric framework to assess sensitivity of Bayesian procedures to modeling assumptions based on the nonparametric Fisher-Rao metric. While the framework is general in spirit, the focus of this article is restricted to…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-28 Sebastian Kurtek , Karthik Bharath

In this article, we present recent developments of information geometry, namely, geometry of the Fisher metric, dualistic structures and divergences on the space of probability measures, particularly the theory of geodesics of the Fisher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Mitsuhiro Itoh , Hiroyasu Satoh

This paper presents a novel information value function that can be used in online sensor planning to monitor a spatial phenomenon in which the spatial phenomenon is modeled by nonparametric Gaussian processes. The information value function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Hongchuan Wei , Wenjie Lu , Silvia Ferrari

This paper introduces a novel approach to statistics and data analysis, departing from the conventional assumption of data residing in Euclidean space to consider a Riemannian Manifold. The challenge lies in the absence of vector space…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-14 Oldemar Rodriguez Rojas

Wasserstein geometry and information geometry are two important structures to be introduced in a manifold of probability distributions. Wasserstein geometry is defined by using the transportation cost between two distributions, so it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Shun-ichi Amari , Takeru Matsuda

Class imbalance in graph data presents a significant challenge for effective node classification, particularly in semi-supervised scenarios. In this work, we formally introduce the concept of geometric imbalance, which captures how message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Liang Yan , Shengzhong Zhang , Bisheng Li , Menglin Yang , Chen Yang , Min Zhou , Weiyang Ding , Yutong Xie , Zengfeng Huang

Diffusion models excel in content generation by implicitly learning the data manifold, yet they lack a practical method to leverage this manifold - unlike other deep generative models equipped with latent spaces. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Shinnosuke Saito , Takashi Matsubara

We consider torsion in parameter manifolds that arises via conformal transformations of the Fisher information metric, and define it for information geometry of a wide class of physical systems. The torsion can be used to differentiate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

Estimating mutual information (MI) between two continuous random variables $X$ and $Y$ allows to capture non-linear dependencies between them, non-parametrically. As such, MI estimation lies at the core of many data science applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Alexander Marx , Jonas Fischer

The simulation of complex nonlinear engineering systems such as compressible fluid flows may be targeted to make more efficient and accurate the approximation of a specific (scalar) quantity of interest of the system. Putting aside modeling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Jan Van Langenhove , Didier Lucor , Frédéric Alauzet , Anca Belme

Information geometry uses the formal tools of differential geometry to describe the space of probability distributions as a Riemannian manifold with an additional dual structure. The formal equivalence of compositional data with discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Ionas Erb , Nihat Ay

Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

This paper studies distributed-parameter systems on Riemannian manifolds with respect to Stokes-Dirac structures in a language of contact geometry with fiber bundles. For the class where energy functionals are quadratic, it is shown that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Shin-itiro Goto

Various tasks in scientific computing can be modeled as an optimization problem on the indefinite Stiefel manifold. We address this using the Riemannian approach, which basically consists of equipping the feasible set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Dinh Van Tiep , Duong Thi Viet An , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Oanh , Nguyen Thanh Son

Riemannian metric learning is an emerging field in machine learning, unlocking new ways to encode complex data structures beyond traditional distance metric learning. While classical approaches rely on global distances in Euclidean space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Samuel Gruffaz , Josua Sassen

We describe a new approach for dealing with the following central problem in the self-organization of a geometric sensor network: Given a polygonal region R, and a large, dense set of sensor nodes that are scattered uniformly at random in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Michael Kaufmann , Alexander Kroeller , Katharina Lehmann

In the search of appropriate riemannian metrics on quantum state space the concept of statistical monotonicity, or contraction under coarse graining, has been proposed by Chentsov. The metrics with this property have been classified by…

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