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Manifolds occur naturally as configuration spaces of robotic systems. They provide global descriptions of local coordinate systems that are common tools in expressing positions of robots. The purpose of this survey is threefold. Firstly, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Stephan Mescher

Manifold learning is a popular and quickly-growing subfield of machine learning based on the assumption that one's observed data lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a higher-dimensional space. This thesis presents a mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi

Manifolds discovered by machine learning models provide a compact representation of the underlying data. Geodesics on these manifolds define locally length-minimising curves and provide a notion of distance, which are key for reduced-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Daniel Kelshaw , Luca Magri

We propose a novel evolutionary algorithm for optimizing real-valued objective functions defined on the Grassmann manifold Gr}(k,n), the space of all k-dimensional linear subspaces of R^n. While existing optimization techniques on Gr}(k,n)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Andrew Lesniewski

Botelho, Jamison, and Moln\' ar have recently described the general form of surjective isometries of Grassmann spaces on complex Hilbert spaces under certain dimensionality assumptions. In this paper we provide a new approach to this…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 György Pál Gehér , Peter Šemrl

In image set classification, a considerable advance has been made by modeling the original image sets by second order statistics or linear subspace, which typically lie on the Riemannian manifold. Specifically, they are Symmetric Positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Rui Wang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Kai-Xuan Chen , Josef Kittler

A pedagogical but concise overview of Riemannian geometry is provided, in the context of usage in physics. The emphasis is on defining and visualizing concepts and relationships between them, as well as listing common confusions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-19 Adam Marsh

We study the geometry of flag manifolds under different embeddings into a product of Grassmannians. We show that differential geometric objects and operations -- tangent vector, metric, normal vector, exponential map, geodesic, parallel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Zehua Lai , Lek-Heng Lim , Ke Ye

This paper is a documentation of author's reseach, focusing on the topic Grassmann Algebra spanning over July, August 2025 under mentorship provided by DRP Turkiye 2025. Grassmann algebra is a fundamental structure in mathematics with…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Mithat Konuralp Demir

Metrics on Grassmannians have a wide array of applications: machine learning, wireless communication, computer vision, etc. But the available distances between subspaces of distinct dimensions present problems, and the dimensional asymmetry…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-11 André L. G. Mandolesi

Deep generative models learn a mapping from a low dimensional latent space to a high-dimensional data space. Under certain regularity conditions, these models parameterize nonlinear manifolds in the data space. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Hang Shao , Abhishek Kumar , P. Thomas Fletcher

Low rank representation (LRR) has recently attracted great interest due to its pleasing efficacy in exploring low-dimensional subspace structures embedded in data. One of its successful applications is subspace clustering which means data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Boyue Wang , Yongli Hu , Junbin Gao , Yanfeng Sun , Baocai Yin

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis. By explicitly modeling the geometric structure of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Willem Diepeveen , Deanna Needell

Learning efficient graph representation is the key to favorably addressing downstream tasks on graphs, such as node or graph property prediction. Given the non-Euclidean structural property of graphs, preserving the original graph data's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Bingxin Zhou , Xuebin Zheng , Yu Guang Wang , Ming Li , Junbin Gao

Low rank representation (LRR) has recently attracted great interest due to its pleasing efficacy in exploring low-dimensional sub- space structures embedded in data. One of its successful applications is subspace clustering, by which data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Boyue Wang , Yongli Hu , Junbin Gao , Yanfeng Sun , Baocai Yin

This paper proposes an original Riemmanian geometry for low-rank structured elliptical models, i.e., when samples are elliptically distributed with a covariance matrix that has a low-rank plus identity structure. The considered geometry is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy , Guillaume Ginolhac , Alexandre Renaux , Frédéric Pascal

The problem of recovering the configuration of points from their partial pairwise distances, referred to as the Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem, arises in a broad range of applications, including sensor network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

Recently, studies on machine learning have focused on methods that use symmetry implicit in a specific manifold as an inductive bias. Grassmann manifolds provide the ability to handle fundamental shapes represented as shape spaces, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ryoma Yataka , Kazuki Hirashima , Masashi Shiraishi

This paper describes a numerical method for finding good packings in Grassmannian manifolds equipped with various metrics. This investigation also encompasses packing in projective spaces. In each case, producing a good packing is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-29 I. S. Dhillon , R. W. Heath , T. Strohmer , J. A. Tropp

Latent space geometry provides a rigorous and empirically valuable framework for interacting with the latent variables of deep generative models. This approach reinterprets Euclidean latent spaces as Riemannian through a pull-back metric,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-15 Stas Syrota , Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Søren Hauberg