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I prove that the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator with the Neumann boundary condition on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary admits a fast approximation by the spectra of suitable graph Laplacians on proximity graphs on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Jinpeng Lu

Graph Laplacian based algorithms for data lying on a manifold have been proven effective for tasks such as dimensionality reduction, clustering, and denoising. In this work, we consider data sets whose data points lie on a manifold that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Eitan Rosen , Paulina Hoyos , Xiuyuan Cheng , Joe Kileel , Yoel Shkolnisky

The manifold Helmholtzian (1-Laplacian) operator $\Delta_1$ elegantly generalizes the Laplace-Beltrami operator to vector fields on a manifold $\mathcal M$. In this work, we propose the estimation of the manifold Helmholtzian from point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Yu-Chia Chen , Weicheng Wu , Marina Meilă , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We revisit the Rellich inequality from the viewpoint of isolating the contributions from radial and spherical derivatives. This naturally leads to a comparison of the norms of the radial Laplacian and Laplace{Beltrami operators with the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Neal Bez , Shuji Machihara , Tohru Ozawa

We derive a numerical approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on compact surfaces embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with an axial symmetry. To do so we use a noncommutative Laplace operator defined on the space of finite dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Damien Tageddine , Jean-Christophe Nave

In the manifold setting, we provide a series of spectral convergence results quantifying how the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian converge to the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-23 David B Dunson , Hau-Tieng Wu , Nan Wu

Given i.i.d. observations uniformly distributed on a closed manifold $\mathcal{M}\subseteq \mathbb{R}^p$, we study the spectral properties of the associated empirical graph Laplacian based on a Gaussian kernel. Our main results are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Martin Wahl

The manifold hypothesis posits that high-dimensional data typically resides on low-dimensional sub spaces. In this paper, we assume manifold hypothesis to investigate graph-based semi-supervised learning methods. In particular, we examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mary Chriselda Antony Oliver , Michael Roberts , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Matthew Thorpe

In much of the literature on function approximation by deep networks, the function is assumed to be defined on some known domain, such as a cube or a sphere. In practice, the data might not be dense on these domains, and therefore, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hrushikesh Mhaskar

Classical spectral graph theory relies on the symmetry of the adjacency and Laplacian operators, which guarantees orthogonal eigenbases and energy-preserving Fourier transforms. However, real-world networks are intrinsically directed and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu

We consider the normalized Laplace operator for directed graphs with positive and negative edge weights. This generalization of the normalized Laplace operator for undirected graphs is used to characterize directed acyclic graphs. Moreover,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Frank Bauer

Image deblurring is relevant in many fields of science and engineering. To solve this problem, many different approaches have been proposed and among the various methods, variational ones are extremely popular. These approaches are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Davide Bianchi , Alessandro Buccini , Marco Donatelli , Emma Randazzo

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

Using the embedded gradient vector field method (see P. Birtea, D. Comanescu, Hessian operators on constraint manifolds, J. Nonlinear Science 25, 2015), we present a general formula for the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on a constraint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Petre Birtea , Ioan Casu , Dan Comanescu

Evaluating the similarity of non-rigid shapes with significant partiality is a fundamental task in numerous computer vision applications. Here, we propose a novel axiomatic method to match similar regions across shapes. Matching similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 David Bensaïd , Amit Bracha , Ron Kimmel

Semi-supervised Laplacian regularization, a standard graph-based approach for learning from both labelled and unlabelled data, was recently demonstrated to have an insignificant high dimensional learning efficiency with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Xiaoyi Mai , Romain Couillet

We introduce the logarithmic analogue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Ahlfors regular metric-measure spaces. This operator is intrinsically defined with spectral properties analogous to those of elliptic pseudo-differential operators on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Dimitris Michail Gerontogiannis , Bram Mesland

We introduce a novel scheme for choosing the regularization parameter in high-dimensional linear regression with Lasso. This scheme, inspired by Lepski's method for bandwidth selection in non-parametric regression, is equipped with both…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-09 Michaël Chichignoud , Johannes Lederer , Martin Wainwright

With the rapid expansion of applied 3D computational vision, shape descriptors have become increasingly important for a wide variety of applications and objects from molecules to planets. Appropriate shape descriptors are critical for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Fereshteh S. Bashiri , Reihaneh Rostami , Peggy Peissig , Roshan M. D'Souza , Zeyun Yu

Diffusion maps is a manifold learning algorithm widely used for dimensionality reduction. Using a sample from a distribution, it approximates the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of associated Laplace-Beltrami operators. Theoretical bounds on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Caroline L. Wormell , Sebastian Reich