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Diffusions are a successful technique to sample from high-dimensional distributions. The target distribution can be either explicitly given or learnt from a collection of samples. They implement a diffusion process whose endpoint is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Andrea Montanari

Diffeomorphisms play a crucial role while searching for shapes with fixed topological properties, allowing for smooth deformation of template shapes. Several approaches use diffeomorphism for shape search. However, these approaches employ…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aalok Gangopadhyay , Dwip Dalal , Progyan Das , Shanmuganathan Raman

Symmetry in combinatorial problems is an extensively studied topic. We continue this research in the context of model expansion problems, with the aim of automating the workflow of detecting and breaking symmetry. We focus on local domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Jo Devriendt , Bart Bogaerts , Maurice Bruynooghe , Marc Denecker

A reparametrization (of a continuous path) is given by a surjective weakly increasing self-map of the unit interval. We show that the monoid of reparametrizations (with respect to compositions) can be understood via ``stop-maps'' that allow…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-06-26 Martin Raussen , Ulrich Fahrenberg

We develop a new unsupervised symmetry learning method that starts with raw data and provides the minimal generator of an underlying Lie group of symmetries, together with a symmetry-equivariant representation of the data, which turns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Efe , Arkadas Ozakin

Dimensionality reduction is an integral part of data visualization. It is a process that obtains a structure preserving low-dimensional representation of the high-dimensional data. Two common criteria can be used to achieve a dimensionality…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Lin Yan , Yaodong Zhao , Paul Rosen , Carlos Scheidegger , Bei Wang

We introduce a region-specific diffeomorphic metric mapping (RDMM) registration approach. RDMM is non-parametric, estimating spatio-temporal velocity fields which parameterize the sought-for spatial transformation. Regularization of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhengyang Shen , François-Xavier Vialard , Marc Niethammer

We present a fast algorithm for global rigid symmetry detection with approximation guarantees. The algorithm is guaranteed to find the best approximate symmetry of a given shape, to within a user-specified threshold, with very high…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Simon Korman , Roee Litman , Shai Avidan , Alex Bronstein

Reparameterizable densities are an important way to learn probability distributions in a deep learning setting. For many distributions it is possible to create low-variance gradient estimators by utilizing a `reparameterization trick'. Due…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-13 Luca Falorsi , Pim de Haan , Tim R. Davidson , Patrick Forré

This paper presents two types of extended diffeomorphism designs to compensate for spatial placement differences between robot workspaces. Teleoperation of multiple robots is attracting attention to expand the utilization of the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Masaki Saito , Shunki Itadera , Toshiyuki Murakami

Sphericity and roundness are fundamental measures used for assessing object uniformity in 2D and 3D images. However, using their strict definition makes computation costly. As both 2D and 3D microscopy imaging datasets grow larger, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Pawel Tomasz Pieta , Peter Winkel Rasumssen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Anders Nymark Christensen

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric spaces. Such a model is defined by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points with probability that depends on their distance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

In this book chapter we study the Riemannian Geometry of the density registration problem: Given two densities (not necessarily probability densities) defined on a smooth finite dimensional manifold find a diffeomorphism which transforms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

In this paper we obtain exact normal forms with functional invariants for local diffeomorphisms, under the action of the symplectomorphism group in the source space. Using these normal forms we obtain exact classification results for the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Konstantinos Kourliouros

Symmetries are known to dictate important physical properties and can be used as a design principle in particular in wave physics, including wave structures and the resulting propagation dynamics. Local symmetries, in the sense of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 P. Schmelcher

Statistical systems, in which spontaneous symmetry breaking can be accompanied by spontaneous local symmetry restoration, are considered. A general approach to describing such systems is formulated, based on the notion of weighted Hilbert…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-26 V. I. Yukalov

We obtain symmetry results for solutions of an elliptic system of equation possessing a cooperative structure. The domain in which the problem is set may possess "holes" or "small vacancies" (measured in terms of capacity) along which the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Stefano Biagi , Enrico Valdinoci , Eugenio Vecchi

We present a method to automatically compute correct gradients with respect to geometric scene parameters in neural SDF renderers. Recent physically-based differentiable rendering techniques for meshes have used edge-sampling to handle…

Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Peter Bubenik , Peter T. Kim

Image registration is a process of aligning two or more images of same objects using geometric transformation. Most of the existing approaches work on the assumption of location invariance. These approaches require object-centric images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Deepak Mishra , Rajeev Ranjan , Santanu Chaudhury , Mukul Sarkar , Arvinder Singh Soin