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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

Machine learning problems have an intrinsic geometric structure as central objects including a neural network's weight space and the loss function associated with a particular task can be viewed as encoding the intrinsic geometry of a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Guruprasad Raghavan , Matt Thomson

For a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, endowed with a magnetic potential $\alpha$, we consider the problem of restoring the metric $g$ and the magnetic potential $\alpha$ from the values of the Ma\~n\'e action potential between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. S. Dairbekov , G. P. Paternain , P. Stefanov , G. Uhlmann

Geodesic regression has been proposed for fitting the geodesic curve. However, it cannot automatically choose the dimensionality of data. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian geodesic regression model on Riemannian manifolds (BGRM) model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Youshan Zhang

In the present paper we give a historical account -ranging from classical to modern results- of the problem of rolling two Riemannian manifolds one on the other, with the restrictions that they cannot instantaneously slip or spin one with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Yacine Chitour , Mauricio Godoy Molina , Petri Kokkonen

In this paper, we study linear regression applied to data structured on a manifold. We assume that the data manifold is smooth and is embedded in a Euclidean space, and our objective is to reveal the impact of the data manifold's extrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Liangchen Liu , Juncai He , Richard Tsai

Considering the Teichm\"uller space of a surface equipped with Thurston's Lipschitz metric, we study geodesic segments whose endpoints have bounded combinatorics. We show that these geodesics are cobounded, and that the closest-point…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Anna Lenzhen , Kasra Rafi , Jing Tao

We consider the inverse problem to determine a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ from a restriction of the source-to-solution operator, $\Lambda_{\mathcal{S,R}}$, for the wave equation on the manifold. Here, $\mathcal{S}$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Matti Lassas , Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen , Lauri Ylinen

Riemannian optimization is concerned with problems, where the independent variable lies on a smooth manifold. There is a number of problems from numerical linear algebra that fall into this category, where the manifold is usually specified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Rasmus Jensen , Ralf Zimmermann

Ambrose and Singer characterized connected, simply-connected and complete homogeneous Riemannian manifolds as Riemannian manifolds admitting a metric connection such that its curvature and torsion are parallel. The aim of this paper is to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Ignacio Luján

Given a bounded domain $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with a conformally Euclidean metric $g=\rho\,dx^2$, in this paper we consider the inverse problem of recovering a semigeodesic neighborhood of a domain $\Gamma\subset \partial M$ and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Leonid Pestov , Gunther Uhlmann , Hanming Zhou

Solving the inverse kinematics problem is a fundamental challenge in motion planning, control, and calibration for articulated robots. Kinematic models for these robots are typically parametrized by joint angles, generating a complicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Adam W. Hall , Soroush Khoubyarian , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

After giving a general introduction to the main known results on the anisotropic Calder{\'o}n problem on n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary, we give a motivated review of some recent non-uniqueness results obtained in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Thierry Daudé , Niky Kamran , François Nicoleau

Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hanlin Yu , Berfin Inal , Georgios Arvanitidis , Soren Hauberg , Francesco Locatello , Marco Fumero

Riemannian Geometry for $C^{1,1}$ manifolds contains important differences from that for $C^{2}$ manifolds. This paper develops Riemannian geometry at the $C^{1,1}$ level of regularity. It is shown that the connection is not symmetric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-09 Jeffrey M. Groah

A geometric triangulation of a Riemannian manifold is a triangulation where the interior of each simplex is totally geodesic. Bistellar moves are local changes to the triangulation which are higher dimensional versions of the flip operation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Tejas Kalelkar , Advait Phanse

Here we study what we call bounded rough Riemannian metrics $(M,g)$, which are positive definite, symmetric tensors on each tangent space, $T_pM$, which are bounded and measurable as functions in coordinates. This is enough structure to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Brian Allen , Bernardo Falcao , Harry Pacheco , Bryan Sanchez

How much cutting is needed to simplify the topology of a surface? We provide bounds for several instances of this question, for the minimum length of topologically non-trivial closed curves, pants decompositions, and cut graphs with a given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Éric Colin de Verdière , Alfredo Hubard , Arnaud de Mesmay

This paper presents the geometric aspect of the autoencoder framework, which, despite its importance, has been relatively less recognized. Given a set of high-dimensional data points that approximately lie on some lower-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yonghyeon Lee

Geodesic nets on Riemannian manifolds form a natural class of stationary objects generalizing geodesics. Yet almost nothing is known about their classification or general properties even when the ambient Riemannian manifold is the Euclidean…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Alexander Nabutovsky , Fabian Parsch