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Given a sample from a probability measure with support on a submanifold in Euclidean space one can construct a neighborhood graph which can be seen as an approximation of the submanifold. The graph Laplacian of such a graph is used in…

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Laplacian-based methods are popular for the dimensionality reduction of data lying in $\mathbb{R}^N$. Several theoretical results for these algorithms depend on the fact that the Euclidean distance locally approximates the geodesic distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Liane Xu , Amit Singer

The Laplace-Beltrami operator has established itself in the field of non-rigid shape analysis due to its many useful properties such as being invariant under isometric transformation, having a countable eigensystem forming an orthornormal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Oguzhan Yigit , Richard C. Wilson

In graph-based data analysis, $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$NN) graphs are widely used due to their adaptivity to local data densities. Allowing weighted edges in the graph, the kernelized graph affinity provides a more general type of $k$NN…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Xiuyuan Cheng , Yixuan Tan , Nan Wu

High-dimensional data with intrinsic low-dimensional structure is ubiquitous in machine learning and data science. While various approaches allow one to learn a data manifold with a Riemannian structure from finite samples, performing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Willem Diepeveen , Melanie Weber

We study the approximation of eigenvalues for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on closed Riemannian manifolds in the class $\mathcal{M}$, characterized by bounded Ricci curvature, a lower bound on the injectivity radius, and an upper bound on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Anusha Bhattacharya , Soma Maity

We recover the Riemannian gradient of a given function defined on interior points of a Riemannian submanifold in the Euclidean space based on a sample of function evaluations at points in the submanifold. This approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Antônio J. Silva Neto , Jorge P. Zubelli

Non-Euclidean constraints are inherent in many kinds of data in computer vision and machine learning, typically as a result of specific invariance requirements that need to be respected during high-level inference. Often, these geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Suhas Lohit , Pavan Turaga

Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," aims to enable models to quickly adapt to new tasks with minimal data. While traditional methods like Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) optimize parameters in Euclidean space, they often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 JuneYoung Park , YuMi Lee , Tae-Joon Kim , Jang-Hwan Choi

We introduce an estimator for distances in a compact Riemannian manifold based on graph Laplacian estimates of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. We upper bound the error in the estimate of manifold distances, or more precisely an estimate of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Dena Marie Asta

We introduce a novel framework that directly learns a spectral basis for shape and manifold analysis from unstructured data, eliminating the need for traditional operator selection, discretization, and eigensolvers. Grounded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Roy Velich , Arkadi Piven , David Bensaïd , Daniel Cremers , Thomas Dagès , Ron Kimmel

The use of Laplacian eigenfunctions is ubiquitous in a wide range of computer graphics and geometry processing applications. In particular, Laplacian eigenbases allow generalizing the classical Fourier analysis to manifolds. A key drawback…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà , Umberto Castellani , Michael M. Bronstein

Bi-stochastic normalization provides an alternative normalization of graph Laplacians in graph-based data analysis and can be computed efficiently by Sinkhorn-Knopp (SK) iterations. This paper proves the convergence of bi-stochastically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Xiuyuan Cheng , Boris Landa

Manifold learning is a central task in modern statistics and data science. Many datasets (cells, documents, images, molecules) can be represented as point clouds embedded in a high dimensional ambient space, however the degrees of freedom…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-18 Stephen Zhang , Gilles Mordant , Tetsuya Matsumoto , Geoffrey Schiebinger

Motivated by considerations of euclidean quantum gravity, we investigate a central question of spectral geometry, namely the question of reconstructability of compact Riemannian manifolds from the spectra of their Laplace operators. To this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Mikhail Panine , Achim Kempf

The root laplacian operator or the square root of Laplacian which can be obtained in complete Riemannian manifolds in the Gromov sense has an analog in graph theory as a square root of graph-Laplacian. Some potential applications have been…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Shouvik Datta Choudhury

Quantum graphs have attracted attention from mathematicians for some time. A quantum graph is defined by having a Laplacian on each edge of a metric graph and imposing boundary conditions at the vertices to get an eigenvalue problem. A…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mats-Erik Pistol , Pavel Kurasov

Large graphs are natural mathematical models for describing the structure of the data in a wide variety of fields, such as web mining, social networks, information retrieval, biological networks, etc. For all these applications, automatic…

Applications · Statistics 2008-01-08 Romain Boulet , Bertrand Jouve , Fabrice Rossi , Nathalie Villa

Graph Laplacians as well as related spectral inequalities and (co-)homology provide a foray into discrete analogues of Riemannian manifolds, providing a rich interplay between combinatorics, geometry and theoretical physics. We apply some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Yang-Hui He , Shing-Tung Yau

We discuss the design of interlayer edges in a multiplex network, under a limited budget, with the goal of improving its overall performance. We analyze the following three problems separately; first, we maximize the smallest nonzero…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Heman Shakeri , Ali Tavassoli , Ehsan Ardjmand , Pietro Poggi-Corradini