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Gaussian processes constitute a very powerful and well-understood method for non-parametric regression and classification. In the classical framework, the training data consists of deterministic vector-valued inputs and the corresponding…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Maxim Dolgov , Uwe D. Hanebeck

We propose Riemannian Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (RDDPMs) for learning distributions on submanifolds of Euclidean space that are level sets of functions, including most of the manifolds relevant to applications. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zichen Liu , Wei Zhang , Christof Schütte , Tiejun Li

A new model for biological growth is introduced that couples the geometry of an organism (or part of the organism) to the flow and deposition of material. The model has three dynamical variables (a) a Riemann metric tensor for the geometry,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Julia Pulwicki , David Hobill

Most models of generative AI for images assume that images are inherently low-dimensional objects embedded within a high-dimensional space. Additionally, it is often implicitly assumed that thematic image datasets form smooth or piecewise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Leah Bar , Liron Mor Yosef , Shai Zucker , Neta Shoham , Inbar Seroussi , Nir Sochen

This article presents a novel approach to construct Intrinsic Gaussian Processes for regression on unknown manifolds with probabilistic metrics (GPUM) in point clouds. In many real world applications, one often encounters high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Mu Niu , Zhenwen Dai , Pokman Cheung , Yizhu Wang

Content and image generation consist in creating or generating data from noisy information by extracting specific features such as texture, edges, and other thin image structures. We are interested here in generative models, and two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 El Hadji S. Diop , Thierno Fall , Alioune Mbengue , Mohamed Daoudi

We formulate the Riemannian calculus of the probability set embedded with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric. This is an initial work of transport information geometry. Our investigation starts with the probability simplex (probability manifold)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Wuchen Li

Probability metrics have become an indispensable part of modern statistics and machine learning, and they play a quintessential role in various applications, including statistical hypothesis testing and generative modeling. However, in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-02 Soheil Kolouri , Kimia Nadjahi , Umut Simsekli , Shahin Shahrampour

The information geometry of the 2-manifold of gamma probability density functions provides a framework in which pseudorandom number generators may be evaluated using a neighbourhood of the curve of exponential density functions. The process…

Computation · Statistics 2009-07-13 C. T. J. Dodson

Machine learning holds tremendous promise for transforming the fundamental practice of scientific discovery by virtue of its data-driven nature. With the ever-increasing stream of research data collection, it would be appealing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jianan Fan , Dongnan Liu , Hang Chang , Heng Huang , Mei Chen , Weidong Cai

Random geometric graphs are a popular choice for a latent points generative model for networks. Their definition is based on a sample of $n$ points $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ on the Euclidean sphere~$\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ which represents the latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ernesto Araya , Yohann De Castro

This paper introduces a new metric and mean on the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed-rank. The proposed metric is derived from a well-chosen Riemannian quotient geometry that generalizes the reductive geometry of the positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre

We introduce the information geometry module of the Python package Geomstats. The module first implements Fisher-Rao Riemannian manifolds of widely used parametric families of probability distributions, such as normal, gamma, beta,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Alice Le Brigant , Jules Deschamps , Antoine Collas , Nina Miolane

We introduce novel estimators for computing the curvature, tangent spaces, and dimension of data from manifolds, using tools from diffusion geometry. Although classical Riemannian geometry is a rich source of inspiration for geometric data…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Iolo Jones

The Riemannian geometry is one of the main theoretical pieces in Modern Mathematics and Physics. The study of Riemann Geometry in the relevant literature is performed by using a well defined analytical path. Usually it starts from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Juan Mendez

Upon a consistent topological statistical theory the application of structural statistics requires a quantification of the proximity structure of model spaces. An important tool to study these structures are Pseudo-Riemannian metrices,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Patrick Michl

What is the shortest path between two data points lying in a high-dimensional space? While the answer is trivial in Euclidean geometry, it becomes significantly more complex when the data lies on a curved manifold -- requiring a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Louis Béthune , David Vigouroux , Yilun Du , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre , Victor Boutin

We study a probabilistic numerical method for the solution of both boundary and initial value problems that returns a joint Gaussian process posterior over the solution. Such methods have concrete value in the statistics on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-13 Philipp Hennig , Søren Hauberg

This paper presents a novel paradigm in simulation-based engineering sciences by introducing a new framework called Generative Parametric Design (GPD). The GPD framework enables the generation of new designs along with their corresponding…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohammed El Fallaki Idrissi , Jad Mounayer , Sebastian Rodriguez , Fodil Meraghni , Francisco Chinesta

The theory of geodesic regression aims to find a geodesic curve which is an optimal fit to a given set of data. In this article we restrict ourselves to the Riemannian manifold of positive definite operators (matrices) on a Hilbert space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Frank Hansen