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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Line Kuhnel , Tom Fletcher , Sarang Joshi , Stefan Sommer

Natural language often exhibits inherent hierarchical structure ingrained with complex syntax and semantics. However, most state-of-the-art deep generative models learn embeddings only in Euclidean vector space, without accounting for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Shuyang Dai , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Chenyang Tao , Lawrence Carin , Jingjing Liu

Given the exponential growth of the volume of the ball w.r.t. its radius, the hyperbolic space is capable of embedding trees with arbitrarily small distortion and hence has received wide attention for representing hierarchical datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Gal Mishne , Zhengchao Wan , Yusu Wang , Sheng Yang

We study the role of latent space dimensionality in Wasserstein auto-encoders (WAEs). Through experimentation on synthetic and real datasets, we argue that random encoders should be preferred over deterministic encoders. We highlight the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-13 Paul K. Rubenstein , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Ilya Tolstikhin

Many high-dimensional and large-volume data sets of practical relevance have hierarchical structures induced by trees, graphs or time series. Such data sets are hard to process in Euclidean spaces and one often seeks low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Eli Chien , Chao Pan , Puoya Tabaghi , Olgica Milenkovic

We extend the framework of variational autoencoders to represent transformations explicitly in the latent space. In the family of hierarchical graphical models that emerges, the latent space is populated by higher order objects that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Giorgio Giannone , Saeed Saremi , Jonathan Masci , Christian Osendorfer

Words are not created equal. In fact, they form an aristocratic graph with a latent hierarchical structure that the next generation of unsupervised learned word embeddings should reveal. In this paper, justified by the notion of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Alexandru Tifrea , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea

This paper introduces an end-to-end residual network that operates entirely on the Poincar\'e ball model of hyperbolic space. Hyperbolic learning has recently shown great potential for visual understanding, but is currently only performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Max van Spengler , Erwin Berkhout , Pascal Mettes

Sparse autoencoders have become a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet salient concepts often span manifolds that current linear methods cannot capture without post hoc analysis. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis , Geraint Wiggins , Jose Oramas

Learning good image representations that are beneficial to downstream tasks is a challenging task in computer vision. As such, a wide variety of self-supervised learning approaches have been proposed. Among them, contrastive learning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Yun Yue , Fangzhou Lin , Kazunori D Yamada , Ziming Zhang

Neural networks transform high-dimensional data into compact, structured representations, often modeled as elements of a lower dimensional latent space. In this paper, we present an alternative interpretation of neural models as dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Marco Fumero , Luca Moschella , Emanuele Rodolà , Francesco Locatello

Taxicab space is a modification of Euclidean space that uses an alternative notion of distance. Similarly, the Poincar\'{e} ball is a model of hyperbolic geometry that consists of a subset of Euclidean space with an alternative notion of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Aaron Fish , Dylan Helliwell

3D-aware visual pretraining has proven effective in improving the performance of downstream robotic manipulation tasks. However, existing methods are constrained to Euclidean embedding spaces, whose flat geometry limits their ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jin Yang , Ping Wei , Yixin Chen , Nanning Zheng

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

Incomplete Multi-View Clustering (IMVC) faces the challenge of learning discriminative representations from fragmentary observations while maintaining robustness against missing views. However, prevalent Euclidean-based methods suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianyi Chen , Haobo Wang , Kai Tang , Gengyu Lyu , Tianlei Hu , Gang Chen , Hong Ma , Meixiang Xiang

Hyperbolic neural networks (HNNs) have been proved effective in modeling complex data structures. However, previous works mainly focused on the Poincar\'e ball model and the hyperboloid model as coordinate representations of the hyperbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yidan Mao , Jing Gu , Marcus C. Werner , Dongmian Zou

A disentangled representation of a data set should be capable of recovering the underlying factors that generated it. One question that arises is whether using Euclidean space for latent variable models can produce a disentangled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Luis A. Pérez Rey

Signed network embedding methods aim to learn vector representations of nodes in signed networks. However, existing algorithms only managed to embed networks into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces whereas many intrinsic features of signed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Wenzhuo Song , Hongxu Chen , Xueyan Liu , Hongzhe Jiang , Shengsheng Wang

Label inventories for fine-grained entity typing have grown in size and complexity. Nonetheless, they exhibit a hierarchical structure. Hyperbolic spaces offer a mathematically appealing approach for learning hierarchical representations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Federico López , Michael Strube

Hyperbolic geometry has emerged as an effective latent space for representing complex networks, owing to its ability to capture hierarchical organization and heterogeneous connectivity patterns using low-dimensional embeddings. As a result,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sofía Pérez Casulo , Marcelo Fiori , Bernardo Marenco , Federico Larroca