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We study the problem of learning representations with controllable connectivity properties. This is beneficial in situations when the imposed structure can be leveraged upstream. In particular, we control the connectivity of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Mandar Dixit , Marc Niethammer

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

We explore the role of torsion in hybrid deep learning models that incorporate topological data analysis, focusing on autoencoders. While most TDA tools use field coefficients, this conceals torsional features present in integer homology.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Maria Walch

Computational topology provides a tool, persistent homology, to extract quantitative descriptors from structured objects (images, graphs, point clouds, etc). These descriptors can then be involved in optimization problems, typically as a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Mathieu Carriere , Yuichi Ike , Théo Lacombe , Naoki Nishikawa

Auto-encoder models that preserve similarities in the data are a popular tool in representation learning. In this paper we introduce several auto-encoder models that preserve local distances when mapping from the data space to the latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Nutan Chen , Patrick van der Smagt , Botond Cseke

Manifold learning aims to discover and represent low-dimensional structures underlying high-dimensional data while preserving critical topological and geometric properties. Existing methods often fail to capture local details with global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ren Wang , Pengcheng Zhou

Autoencoders are a widespread tool in machine learning to transform high-dimensional data into a lowerdimensional representation which still exhibits the essential characteristics of the input. The encoder provides an embedding from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Juliane Braunsmann , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

Autoencoders exhibit impressive abilities to embed the data manifold into a low-dimensional latent space, making them a staple of representation learning methods. However, without explicit supervision, which is often unavailable, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Felix Leeb , Stefan Bauer , Michel Besserve , Bernhard Schölkopf

Although image denoising algorithms have attracted significant research attention, surprisingly few have been proposed for, or evaluated on, noise from imagery acquired under real low-light conditions. Moreover, noise characteristics are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Alexandra Malyugina , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David Bull

This paper proposes a novel topological learning framework that integrates networks of different sizes and topology through persistent homology. Such challenging task is made possible through the introduction of a computationally efficient…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-30 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Moo K. Chung

This paper is a cursory study on how topological features are preserved within the internal representations of neural network layers. Using techniques from topological data analysis, namely persistent homology, the topological features of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Archie Shahidullah

Autoencoders, which consist of an encoder and a decoder, are widely used in machine learning for dimension reduction of high-dimensional data. The encoder embeds the input data manifold into a lower-dimensional latent space, while the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Juliane Braunsmann , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

In this work, we study the representation space of contextualized embeddings and gain insight into the hidden topology of large language models. We show there exists a network of latent states that summarize linguistic properties of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yao Fu , Mirella Lapata

Conformal Autoencoders are a neural network architecture that imposes orthogonality conditions between the gradients of latent variables to obtain disentangled representations of data. In this work we show that orthogonality relations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 George A. Kevrekidis , Zan Ahmad , Mauro Maggioni , Soledad Villar , Yannis G. Kevrekidis

We propose a method for learning topology-preserving data representations (dimensionality reduction). The method aims to provide topological similarity between the data manifold and its latent representation via enforcing the similarity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Ilya Trofimov , Daniil Cherniavskii , Eduard Tulchinskii , Nikita Balabin , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Topological correctness is critical for segmentation of tubular structures, which pervade in biomedical images. Existing topological segmentation loss functions are primarily based on the persistent homology of the image. They match the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bo Wen , Haochen Zhang , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Existing interpretability methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) predominantly capture linear directions or isolated features. This overlooks the high-dimensional, relational, and nonlinear geometry of model representations. We apply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Aideen Fay , Inés García-Redondo , Qiquan Wang , Haim Dubossarsky , Anthea Monod

Anomaly detection in high-energy physics is essential for identifying new physics beyond the Standard Model. Autoencoders provide a signal-agnostic approach but are limited by the topology of their latent space. This work explores…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Błażej Rozwoda , Kazuki Sakurai , Michael Spannowsky

Node2vec is a graph embedding method that learns a vector representation for each node of a weighted graph while seeking to preserve relative proximity and global structure. Numerical experiments suggest Node2vec struggles to recreate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-18 Yasuaki Hiraoka , Yusuke Imoto , Killian Meehan , Théo Lacombe , Toshiaki Yachimura

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising branch in modern applied mathematics. It extracts topological structures as features of a given space and uses these features to analyze digital data. Persistent homology, one of the central tools…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Chuan-Shen Hu
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