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Spectral methods that are based on eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete graph Laplacians, such as Diffusion Maps and Laplacian Eigenmaps are often used for manifold learning and non-linear dimensionality reduction. It was previously…
The eigendecomposition of the Laplace--Beltrami Operator (LBO) is fundamental to geometric analysis, yet computing its low-frequency eigenmodes remains a significant bottleneck due to the high cost of iterative solvers on large-scale data.…
We develop theory and methods that use the graph Laplacian to analyze the geometry of the underlying manifold of datasets. Our theory provides theoretical guarantees and explicit bounds on the functional forms of the graph Laplacian when it…
We introduce a novel framework that directly learns a spectral basis for shape and manifold analysis from unstructured data, eliminating the need for traditional operator selection, discretization, and eigensolvers. Grounded in…
We study the approximation of eigenvalues for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on closed Riemannian manifolds in the class $\mathcal{M}$, characterized by bounded Ricci curvature, a lower bound on the injectivity radius, and an upper bound on…
We study the convergence of the graph Laplacian of a random geometric graph generated by an i.i.d. sample from a $m$-dimensional submanifold $M$ in $R^d$ as the sample size $n$ increases and the neighborhood size $h$ tends to zero. We show…
Given a sample from a probability measure with support on a submanifold in Euclidean space one can construct a neighborhood graph which can be seen as an approximation of the submanifold. The graph Laplacian of such a graph is used in…
Persistent homology provides a new approach for the topological simplification of big data via measuring the life time of intrinsic topological features in a filtration process and has found its success in scientific and engineering…
We study a regression problem on a compact manifold M. In order to take advantage of the underlying geometry and topology of the data, the regression task is performed on the basis of the first several eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami…
Real world data often lie on low-dimensional Riemannian manifolds embedded in high-dimensional spaces. This motivates learning degenerate normalizing flows that map between the ambient space and a low-dimensional latent space. However, if…
Let $M$ be a compact smooth manifold equipped with a positive smooth density $\mu$ and $H$ be a smooth distribution endowed with a fiberwise inner product $g$. We define the Laplacian $\Delta_H$ associated with $(H,\mu,g)$ and prove that it…
We study the problem of estimating eigenpairs of elliptic differential operators from samples of a distribution $\rho$ supported on a manifold $M$. The operators discussed in the paper are relevant in unsupervised learning and in particular…
While topological data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm for structural inference, its foundational tools, notably persistent homology and the persistent Laplacian, are frequently insensitive to localized structural fluctuations…
In this paper, we study the graph-theoretic analogues of vector Laplacian (or Helmholtz operator) and vector Laplace equation. We determine the graph matrix representation of vector Laplacian and obtain the dimension of solution space of…
This paper introduces the sigma flow model for the prediction of structured labelings of data observed on Riemannian manifolds, including Euclidean image domains as special case. The approach combines the Laplace-Beltrami framework for…
Simplicial complexes are generalizations of graphs that describe higher-order network interactions among nodes in the graph. Network dynamics described by graph Laplacian flows have been widely studied in network science and control theory,…
Fluid prediction is a long-standing challenge due to the intrinsic high-dimensional non-linear dynamics. Previous methods usually utilize the non-linear modeling capability of deep models to directly estimate velocity fields for future…
Point clouds are a fundamental representation for robotic perception tasks such as localization, mapping, and object pose estimation. However, LiDAR-acquired point clouds are inherently sparse and non-uniform, providing incomplete…
Moving frames of various kinds are used to derive bi-Hamiltonian operators and associated hierarchies of multi-component soliton equations from group-invariant flows of non-stretching curves in constant curvature manifolds and Lie group…
Recently, much of the existing work in manifold learning has been done under the assumption that the data is sampled from a manifold without boundaries and singularities or that the functions of interest are evaluated away from such points.…