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Past approaches for statistical shape analysis of objects have focused mainly on objects within the same topological classes, e.g., scalar functions, Euclidean curves, or surfaces, etc. For objects that differ in more complex ways, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Xiaoyang Guo , Anuj Srivastava

Decomposing a deep neural network's learned representations into interpretable features could greatly enhance its safety and reliability. To better understand features, we adopt a geometric perspective, viewing them as a learned coordinate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aryeh Brill

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) allows us to extract powerful topological and higher-order information on the global shape of a data set or point cloud. Tools like Persistent Homology or the Euler Transform give a single complex description…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

Computational models are quantitative representations of systems. By analyzing and comparing the outputs of such models, it is possible to gain a better understanding of the system itself. Though as the complexity of model outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Colin G. Cess , Stacey D. Finley

In many machine learning tasks, learning a good representation of the data can be the key to building a well-performant solution. This is because most learning algorithms operate with the features in order to find models for the data. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 David Charte , Francisco Charte , María J. del Jesus , Francisco Herrera

In this chapter, we identify fundamental geometric structures that underlie the problems of sampling, optimisation, inference and adaptive decision-making. Based on this identification, we derive algorithms that exploit these geometric…

The success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, and we hypothesize that this is because different representations can entangle and hide more or less the different explanatory factors of variation behind…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville , Pascal Vincent

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pawel Gajer , Jacques Ravel

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

The topology of the large-scale structure of the universe contains valuable information on the underlying cosmological parameters. While persistent homology can extract this topological information, the optimal method for parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jacky H. T. Yip , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu

Similarity measures are widely used to interpret the representational geometries used by neural networks to solve tasks. Yet, because existing methods compare the extrinsic geometry of representations in state space, rather than their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 N Alex Cayco-Gajic , Arthur Pellegrino

Despite encouraging recent progresses in ensemble approaches, classification methods seem to have reached a plateau in development. Further advances depend on a better understanding of geometrical and topological characteristics of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tin Kam Ho

A common assumption in representation learning is that globally well-distributed embeddings support robust and generalizable representations. This focus has shaped both training objectives and evaluation protocols, implicitly treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiwan Chung , Seon Joo Kim

We present a notion of geometry encoding suitable for machine learning-based numerical simulation. In particular, we delineate how this notion of encoding is different than other encoding algorithms commonly used in other disciplines such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Amir Maleki , Jan Heyse , Rishikesh Ranade , Haiyang He , Priya Kasimbeg , Jay Pathak

Mesoscale simulations of woven composites using parameterized analytical geometries offer a way to connect constituent material properties and their geometric arrangement to effective composite properties and performance. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-21 Collin W. Foster , Lincoln N. Collins , Francesco Panerai , Scott A. Roberts

Mathematical descriptions of dynamical systems are deeply rooted in topological spaces defined by non-Euclidean geometry. This paper proposes leveraging structure-rich geometric spaces for machine learning to achieve structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zack Xuereb Conti , David J Wagg , Nick Pepper

Mesh-based learning is one of the popular approaches nowadays to learn shapes. The most established backbone in this field is MeshCNN. In this paper, we propose infusing MeshCNN with geometric reasoning to achieve higher quality learning.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Amir Barda , Yotam Erel , Amit H. Bermano

The success of algorithms in the analysis of high-dimensional data is often attributed to the manifold hypothesis, which supposes that this data lie on or near a manifold of much lower dimension. It is often useful to determine or estimate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-10 Anna C. Gilbert , Kevin O'Neill

Universal representation of geometric patterns of disordered matters is investigated with the aid of general topology. By utilizing the result obtained in the previous study (S. Ohmori, et.al., Phys. Scr. 94, 105213 (2019)) that any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Shousuke Ohmori , Yoshihiro Yamazaki , Tomoyuki Yamamoto , Akihiko Kitada