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Embedding static graphs in low-dimensional vector spaces plays a key role in network analytics and inference, supporting applications like node classification, link prediction, and graph visualization. However, many real-world networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Claudio D. T. Barros , Matheus R. F. Mendonça , Alex B. Vieira , Artur Ziviani

I will present a way to implement graph algorithms which is different from traditional methods. This work was motivated by the belief that some ideas from software engineering should be applied to graph algorithms. Re-usability of software…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-24 Marco Nissen

We consider the problem of embedding the nodes of a hypergraph into Euclidean space under the assumption that the interactions arose through closeness to unknown hyperedge centres. In this way, we tackle the inverse problem associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Francesco Zigliotto , Desmond J. Higham

Representing a scanned map of the real environment as a topological structure is an important research in robotics. %is currently an important research. Since topological representations of maps save a huge amount of map storage space and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Jiawei Hou , Yijun Yuan , Sören Schwertfeger

We present a new approach, the Topograph, which reconstructs underlying physics processes, including the intermediary particles, by leveraging underlying priors from the nature of particle physics decays and the flexibility of message…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Lukas Ehrke , John Andrew Raine , Knut Zoch , Manuel Guth , Tobias Golling

Maps are arguably one of the most fundamental concepts used to define and operate on manifold surfaces in differentiable geometry. Accordingly, in geometry processing, maps are ubiquitous and are used in many core applications, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Luca Morreale , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir Kim , Niloy J. Mitra

Machine learning on graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with applications ranging from drug design to friendship recommendation in social networks. The primary challenge in this domain is finding a way to represent, or encode, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 William L. Hamilton , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

While orthogonal drawings have a long history, smooth orthogonal drawings have been introduced only recently. So far, only planar drawings or drawings with an arbitrary number of crossings per edge have been studied. Recently, a lot of…

Computational Epigraphy refers to the process of extracting text from stone inscription, transliteration, interpretation, and attribution with the aid of computational methods. Traditional epigraphy methods are time consuming, and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Vishal Kumar

This article aims to study the topological invariant properties encoded in node graph representational embeddings by utilizing tools available in persistent homology. Specifically, given a node embedding representation algorithm, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mustafa Hajij , Ghada Zamzmi , Xuanting Cai

We explore pseudometrics for directed graphs in order to better understand their topological properties. The directed flag complex associated to a directed graph provides a useful bridge between network science and topology. Indeed, it has…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Ana Lucia Garcia-Pulido , Kathryn Hess , Jane Tan , Katharine Turner , Bei Wang , Naya Yerolemou

We present some algorithms that provide useful topological information about curves in surfaces. One of the main algorithms computes the geometric intersection number of two properly embedded 1-manifolds $C_1$ and $C_2$ in a compact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Marc Lackenby

Learning a graph topology to reveal the underlying relationship between data entities plays an important role in various machine learning and data analysis tasks. Under the assumption that structured data vary smoothly over a graph, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-23 Xingyue Pu , Tianyue Cao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen

Consider a graph drawn on a surface (for example, the plane minus a finite set of obstacle points), possibly with crossings. We provide an algorithm to decide whether such a drawing can be untangled, namely, if one can slide the vertices…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Éric Colin de Verdière , Vincent Despré , Loïc Dubois

The notion of graph covers is a discretization of covering spaces introduced and deeply studied in topology. In discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, they have attained a lot of attention from both the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl , Michaela Seifrtová

We introduce a framework for generating, organizing, and reasoning with computational knowledge. It is motivated by the observation that most problems in Computational Sciences and Engineering (CSE) can be formulated as that of completing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-31 Houman Owhadi

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

This is an exposition of results on the existence problem of $\pi_1$-injective immersed and embedded surfaces in graph-manifolds, and also of nonpositively curved metrics on graph-manifolds, obtained by different authors. The results are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Buyalo , P. Svetlov

With the remarkable success of representation learning for prediction problems, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of the use of machine learning and deep learning for the analysis of digital pathology and biopsy image patches. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Mohammad Ali Armin , Simon Denman , Clinton Fookes , Lars Petersson

Typology is a subfield of linguistics that focuses on the study and classification of languages based on their structural features. Unlike genealogical classification, which examines the historical relationships between languages, typology…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Gerhard Jäger