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Distributed learning offers a practical solution for the integrative analysis of multi-source datasets, especially under privacy or communication constraints. However, addressing prospective distributional heterogeneity and ensuring…

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Finding a low dimensional representation of hierarchical, structured data described by a network remains a challenging problem in the machine learning community. An emerging approach is embedding these networks into hyperbolic space because…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-03 David McDonald , Shan He

Starting with an exact and simple geodesic, we generate approximate geodesics by summing up higher-order geodesic deviations within a General Relativistic setting, without using Newtonian and post-Newtonian approximations. We apply this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Colistete , C. Leygnac , R. Kerner

Although Bayesian methods are robust and principled, their application in practice could be limited since they typically rely on computationally intensive Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for their implementation. One possible solution…

Computation · Statistics 2015-10-06 Tian Chen , Jeffrey Streets , Babak Shahbaba

This paper introduces a novel method to estimate distance fields from noisy point clouds using Gaussian Process (GP) regression. Distance fields, or distance functions, gained popularity for applications like point cloud registration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Cedric Le Gentil , Othmane-Latif Ouabi , Lan Wu , Cedric Pradalier , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

Determining the quantum circuit complexity of a unitary operation is closely related to the problem of finding minimal length paths in a particular curved geometry [Nielsen et al, Science 311, 1133-1135 (2006)]. This paper investigates many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Michael A. Nielsen

In this paper, we study the characterization of geodesics for a class of distances between probability measures introduced by Dolbeault, Nazaret and Savar e. We first prove the existence of a potential function and then give necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Guillaume Carlier , Bruno Nazaret

We develop a new method for visualizing and refining the invariances of learned representations. Specifically, we test for a general form of invariance, linearization, in which the action of a transformation is confined to a low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Olivier J. Hénaff , Eero P. Simoncelli

In this manuscript, an original numerical procedure for the nonlinear peridynamics on arbitrarily--shaped two-dimensional (2D) closed manifolds is proposed. When dealing with non parameterized 2D manifolds at the discrete scale, the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Alessandro Coclite , Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Francesco Maddalena , Tiziano Politi

We establish sharp geometric Holder regularity estimates for Gradient for bounded solutions of a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with non-homogeneous degeneracy. Such regularity estimates simplify and generalize, to some extent,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-13 G. C. Ricarte , J. V. Da Silva

The real symplectic Stiefel manifold is the manifold of symplectic bases of symplectic subspaces of a fixed dimension. It features in a large variety of applications in physics and engineering. In this work, we study this manifold with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Thomas Bendokat , Ralf Zimmermann

We present and analyze a methodology for numerical homogenization of spatial networks, modelling e.g. diffusion processes and deformation of mechanical structures. The aim is to construct an accurate coarse model of the network. By solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Fredrik Edelvik , Morgan Görtz , Fredrik Hellman , Gustav Kettil , Axel Målqvist

Metrics on shape space are used to describe deformations that take one shape to another, and to determine a distance between them. We study a family of metrics on the space of curves, that includes several recently proposed metrics, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Stephen Marsland , Peter W. Michor

There has been an arising trend of adopting deep learning methods to study partial differential equations (PDEs). This article is to propose a Deep Learning Galerkin Method (DGM) for the closed-loop geothermal system, which is a new coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Wen Zhang , Jian Li

We propose geodesic-based optimization methods on dually flat spaces, where the geometric structure of the parameter manifold is closely related to the form of the objective function. A primary application is maximum likelihood estimation…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-11 Gaku Omiya , Fumiyasu Komaki

Let S be a triangulated 2-sphere with fixed triangulation T. We apply the methods of thin position from knot theory to obtain a simple version of the three geodesics theorem for the 2-sphere [5]. In general these three geodesics may be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Abigail Thompson

We present a novel geothermal exploration approach that integrates innovations at three spatial scale. At the regional scale (~100 km) we create LCOE heat maps using a techno-economic and metamodel analysis. This allows us to choose several…

We propose a novel type of planar-to-spatial deployable structures that we call elastic geodesic grids. Our approach aims at the approximation of freeform surfaces with spatial grids of bent lamellas which can be deployed from a planar…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Stefan Pillwein , Kurt Leimer , Michael Birsak , Przemyslaw Musialski

Author developed a uniform model for different spaces where distance and angle measure kinds are parameters. This model is calculus centric, but can also be used in theoretical research. It is useful in the following domains: deduction of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Alexandru Popa

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan , Qingsong Wang