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Manifold learning seeks a low dimensional representation that faithfully captures the essence of data. Current methods can successfully learn such representations, but do not provide a meaningful set of operations that are associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 David Eklund , Søren Hauberg

In machine learning, there is a long history of trying to build neural networks that can learn from fewer example data by baking in strong geometric priors. However, it is not always clear a priori what geometric constraints are appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , Sheng Yang , Julian A. Rubinfien , Cengiz Pehlevan

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are powerful frameworks for learning embeddings of graph-structured data. GCNs are traditionally studied through the lens of Euclidean geometry. Recent works find that non-Euclidean Riemannian manifolds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Bo Xiong , Shichao Zhu , Nico Potyka , Shirui Pan , Chuan Zhou , Steffen Staab

In recent years there has been increased interest in understanding the interplay between deep generative models (DGMs) and the manifold hypothesis. Research in this area focuses on understanding the reasons why commonly-used DGMs succeed or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

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

Several important algorithms for machine learning and data analysis use pairwise distances as input. On Riemannian manifolds these distances may be prohibitively costly to compute, in particular for large datasets. To tackle this problem,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Philipp Harms , Elodie Maignant , Stefan Schlager

The analysis of manifold-valued data requires efficient tools from Riemannian geometry to cope with the computational complexity at stake. This complexity arises from the always-increasing dimension of the data, and the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Maxime Louis , Alexandre Bône , Benjamin Charlier , Stanley Durrleman

Riemannian geometry provides the fundamental framework for optimization on nonlinear spaces such as matrix manifolds, which arise in machine learning, signal processing, and robotics. While the underlying theory is classical, existing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benyamin Ghojogh

A common assumption in generative models is that the generator immerses the latent space into a Euclidean ambient space. Instead, we consider the ambient space to be a Riemannian manifold, which allows for encoding domain knowledge through…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-04 Georgios Arvanitidis , Søren Hauberg , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

An increasingly common viewpoint is that protein dynamics data sets reside in a non-linear subspace of low conformational energy. Ideal data analysis tools for such data sets should therefore account for such non-linear geometry. The…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-27 Willem Diepeveen , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Jan Lellmann , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

3D generative modeling is accelerating as the technology allowing the capture of geometric data is developing. However, the acquired data is often inconsistent, resulting in unregistered meshes or point clouds. Many generative learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Thomas Besnier , Sylvain Arguillère , Emery Pierson , Mohamed Daoudi

Geometric data and purpose-built generative models on them have become ubiquitous in high-impact deep learning application domains, ranging from protein backbone generation and computational chemistry to geospatial data. Current geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Oscar Davis , Michael S. Albergo , Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael M. Bronstein , Avishek Joey Bose

Deep learning is the mainstream technique for many machine learning tasks, including image recognition, machine translation, speech recognition, and so on. It has outperformed conventional methods in various fields and achieved great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , David Xianfeng Gu

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

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pawel Gajer , Jacques Ravel

In a number of disciplines, the data (e.g., graphs, manifolds) to be analyzed are non-Euclidean in nature. Geometric deep learning corresponds to techniques that generalize deep neural network models to such non-Euclidean spaces. Several…

Riemannian geometry provides us with powerful tools to explore the latent space of generative models while preserving the underlying structure of the data. The latent space can be equipped it with a Riemannian metric, pulled back from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Alison Pouplin , David Eklund , Carl Henrik Ek , Søren Hauberg

In recent decades, advancements in motion learning have enabled robots to acquire new skills and adapt to unseen conditions in both structured and unstructured environments. In practice, motion learning methods capture relevant patterns and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hadi Beik-Mohammadi , Søren Hauberg , Georgios Arvanitidis , Gerhard Neumann , Leonel Rozo

Graph data often exhibits complex geometric heterogeneity, where structures with varying local curvature, such as tree-like hierarchies and dense communities, coexist within a single network. Existing geometric GNNs, which embed graphs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xudong Wang , Chris Ding , Tongxin Li , Jicong Fan