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We introduce a novel two-step approach for estimating a probability density function (pdf) given its samples, with the second and important step coming from a geometric formulation. The procedure involves obtaining an initial estimate of…

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Deployment of machine learning algorithms into real-world practice is still a difficult task. One of the challenges lies in the unpredictable variability of input data, which may differ significantly among individual users, institutions,…

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We present a novel feature matching algorithm that systematically utilizes the geometric properties of features such as position, scale, and orientation, in addition to the conventional descriptor vectors. In challenging scenes with the…

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We have developed an efficient information-maximization method for computing the optimal shapes of tuning curves of sensory neurons by optimizing the parameters of the underlying feedforward network model. When applied to the problem of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Wentao Huang , Xin Huang , Kechen Zhang

This paper investigates a family of dynamical systems arising from an evolutionary re-interpretation of certain optimal control and optimization problems. We focus particularly on the application in image registration of the theory of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-21 F. Gay-Balmaz , D. D. Holm , T. S. Ratiu

The problem of optimal node density for ad hoc sensor networks deployed for making inferences about two dimensional correlated random fields is considered. Using a symmetric first order conditional autoregressive Gauss-Markov random field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Youngchul Sung , H. Vincent Poor , Heejung Yu

The ever-increasing parameter counts of deep learning models necessitate effective compression techniques for deployment on resource-constrained devices. This paper explores the application of information geometry, the study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zakhar Shumaylov , Vasileios Tsiaras , Yannis Stylianou

The increasing availability of full-field displacement data from imaging techniques in experimental mechanics is determining a gradual shift in the paradigm of material model calibration and discovery, from using several simple-geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Saeid Ghouli , Moritz Flaschel , Siddhant Kumar , Laura De Lorenzis

We investigate the effect of different metrizations of probability spaces on the information geometric complexity of entropic motion on curved statistical manifolds. Specifically, we provide a comparative analysis based upon Riemannian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Steven Gassner , Carlo Cafaro

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We describe a diffeomorphic registration algorithm that allows groups of images to be accurately aligned to a common space, which we intend to incorporate into the SPM software. The idea is to perform inference in a probabilistic graphical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mikael Brudfors , Yaël Balbastre , Guillaume Flandin , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

Diffeomorphic matching (only one of several names for this technique) is a technique for non-rigid registration of curves and surfaces in which the curve or surface is embedded in the flow of a time-series of vector fields. One seeks the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 C. J. Cotter

We introduce a new paradigm, $\textit{measure synchronization}$, for synchronizing graphs with measure-valued edges. We formulate this problem as maximization of the cycle-consistency in the space of probability measures over relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Tolga Birdal , Michael Arbel , Umut Şimşekli , Leonidas Guibas

Several problems in machine learning are naturally expressed as the design and analysis of time-evolving probability distributions. This includes sampling via diffusion methods, optimizing the weights of neural networks, and analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Gabriel Peyré

We propose approaches based on deep learning to localize objects in images when only a small training dataset is available and the images have low quality. That applies to many problems in medical image processing, and in particular to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Aaron Pries , Peter J. Schreier , Artur Lamm , Stefan Pede , Jürgen Schmidt

We consider the problem of matching two shapes assuming these shapes are related by an elastic deformation. Using linearized elasticity theory and the finite element method we seek an elastic deformation that is caused by simple external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Konrad Simon , Ronen Basri

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

We study the D-optimal Data Fusion (DDF) problem, which aims to select new data points, given an existing Fisher information matrix, so as to maximize the logarithm of the determinant of the overall Fisher information matrix. We show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Yongchun Li , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee , Feng Qiu , Weijun Xie , Rui Yao

This work presents a method for information fusion in source localization applications. The method utilizes the concept of optimal mass transport in order to construct estimates of the spatial spectrum using a convex barycenter formulation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler , Andreas Jakobsson , Johan Karlsson

We consider the problem of optimization of cost functionals on the infinite-dimensional manifold of diffeomorphisms. We present a new class of optimization methods, valid for any optimization problem setup on the space of diffeomorphisms by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Ganesh Sundaramoorthi , Anthony Yezzi