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Machine learning has been progressively generalised to operate within non-Euclidean domains, but geometrically accurate methods for learning on surfaces are still falling behind. The lack of closed-form Riemannian operators, the…

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We present a dynamic subspace approach for efficiently approximating large-scale systems by learning time-continuous trajectories on the Grassmannian manifold. By parameterizing a low-dimensional basis as a geodesic path, the method allows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jack DeChant , Rudy Geelen , Shane A. McQuarrie , Johann Guilleminot

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

We provide an easy approach to the geodesic distance on the general linear group GL(n) for left-invariant Riemannian metrics which are also right-O(n)-invariant. The parametrization of geodesic curves and the global existence of length…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Robert Martin , Patrizio Neff

Many real-world problems require reasoning across multiple scales, demanding models which operate not on single data points, but on entire distributions. We introduce generative distribution embeddings (GDE), a framework that lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Nic Fishman , Gokul Gowri , Peng Yin , Jonathan Gootenberg , Omar Abudayyeh

Comparing and computing distances between phylogenetic trees are important biological problems, especially for models where edge lengths play an important role. The geodesic distance measure between two phylogenetic trees with edge lengths…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-05 Megan Owen , J. Scott Provan

We study the question of approximating a compact geodesic metric space by metric graphs satisfying a uniform upper bound on their first Betti number. We prove that, up to a suitable multiplicative constant, Reeb graphs of distance functions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Facundo Memoli , Osman Berat Okutan , Qingsong Wang

Likelihood-based, or explicit, deep generative models use neural networks to construct flexible high-dimensional densities. This formulation directly contradicts the manifold hypothesis, which states that observed data lies on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-30 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Jesse C. Cresswell , Anthony L. Caterini

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a powerful unsupervised method to model the statistical patterns of real-world data sets, such as natural images. These networks are trained to map random inputs in their latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Binxu Wang , Carlos R. Ponce

In this paper, we address the problem of building dense correspondences between human images under arbitrary camera viewpoints and body poses. Prior art either assumes small motion between frames or relies on local descriptors, which cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Feitong Tan , Danhang Tang , Mingsong Dou , Kaiwen Guo , Rohit Pandey , Cem Keskin , Ruofei Du , Deqing Sun , Sofien Bouaziz , Sean Fanello , Ping Tan , Yinda Zhang

The Euclidean space notion of convex sets (and functions) generalizes to Riemannian manifolds in a natural sense and is called geodesic convexity. Extensively studied computational problems such as convex optimization and sampling in convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Navin Goyal , Abhishek Shetty

A methodology is developed for data analysis based on empirically constructed geodesic metric spaces. For a probability distribution, the length along a path between two points can be defined as the amount of probability mass accumulated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Kei Kobayashi , Henry P. Wynn

Building on the remarkable achievements in generative sampling of natural images, we propose an innovative challenge, potentially overly ambitious, which involves generating samples of entire multivariate time series that resemble images.…

Graph similarity computation is one of the core operations in many graph-based applications, such as graph similarity search, graph database analysis, graph clustering, etc. Since computing the exact distance/similarity between two graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Geodesic distance is the shortest path between two points in a Riemannian manifold. Manifold learning algorithms, such as Isomap, seek to learn a manifold that preserves geodesic distances. However, such methods operate on the ambient…

Modern generative models can produce realistic samples, however, balancing memorisation and generalisation remains an open problem. We approach this challenge from a Bayesian perspective by focusing on the parameter space of flow matching…

We perform an experimental evaluation of algorithms for finding geodesic shortest paths between two points inside a simple polygon in the constant-workspace model. In this model, the input resides in a read-only array that can be accessed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jonas Cleve , Wolfgang Mulzer

Stochastic generative models enable us to capture the geometric structure of a data manifold lying in a high dimensional space through a Riemannian metric in the latent space. However, its practical use is rather limited mainly due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-10 Georgios Arvanitidis , Bogdan Georgiev , Bernhard Schölkopf

Given data, deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN), train a lower dimensional latent representation of the data space. The linear Euclidean geometry of data space pulls back…

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