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Representing a manifold of very high-dimensional data with generative models has been shown to be computationally efficient in practice. However, this requires that the data manifold admits a global parameterization. In order to represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Giovanni S. Alberti , Johannes Hertrich , Matteo Santacesaria , Silvia Sciutto

We propose TopDis (Topological Disentanglement), a method for learning disentangled representations via adding a multi-scale topological loss term. Disentanglement is a crucial property of data representations substantial for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Nikita Balabin , Daria Voronkova , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

The manifold hypothesis, which assumes that data lies on or close to an unknown manifold of low intrinsic dimension, is a staple of modern machine learning research. However, recent work has shown that real-world data exhibits distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck

Comparison of data representations is a complex multi-aspect problem that has not enjoyed a complete solution yet. We propose a method for comparing two data representations. We introduce the Representation Topology Divergence (RTD),…

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

Representation of data on mixed variables, numerical and categorical types to get suitable feature map is a challenging task as important information lies in a complex non-linear manifold. The feature transformation should be able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Saswata Sahoo , Souradip Chakraborty

Recent work on mode connectivity in the loss landscape of deep neural networks has demonstrated that the locus of (sub-)optimal weight vectors lies on continuous paths. In this work, we train a neural network that serves as a hypernetwork,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-09 Lior Deutsch , Erik Nijkamp , Yu Yang

We demonstrate the identification and classification of topological phase transitions from experimental data using Diffusion Maps: a nonlocal unsupervised machine learning method. We analyze experimental data from an optical system…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-09 Eran Lustig , Or Yair , Ronen Talmon , Mordechai Segev

Optimizing complex systems, from discovering therapeutic drugs to designing high-performance materials, remains a fundamental challenge across science and engineering, as the underlying rules are often unknown and costly to evaluate.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tailin Zhou , Zhilin Chen , Wenlong Lyu , Zhitang Chen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Jun Zhang

Drawing motivation from the manifold hypothesis, which posits that most high-dimensional data lies on or near low-dimensional manifolds, we apply manifold learning to the space of neural networks. We learn manifolds where datapoints are…

Geometric deep learning has gained much attention in recent years due to more available data acquired from non-Euclidean domains. Some examples include point clouds for 3D models and wireless sensor networks in communications. Graphs are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

This study addresses the challenge of accurately identifying multi-task contention types in high-dimensional system environments and proposes a unified contention classification framework that integrates representation transformation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xiao Yang , Yinan Ni , Yuqi Tang , Zhimin Qiu , Chen Wang , Tingzhou Yuan

Non-linear manifold learning enables high-dimensional data analysis, but requires out-of-sample-extension methods to process new data points. In this paper, we propose a manifold learning algorithm based on deep learning to create an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-26 Gal Mishne , Uri Shaham , Alexander Cloninger , Israel Cohen

Manifold learning builds on the "manifold hypothesis," which posits that data in high-dimensional datasets are drawn from lower-dimensional manifolds. Current tools generate global embeddings of data, rather than the local maps used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Serena Hughes , Timothy Hamilton , Tom Kolokotrones , Eric J. Deeds

Modern deep neural networks have shown remarkable performance in medical image classification. However, such networks either emphasize pixel-intensity features instead of fundamental anatomical structures (e.g., those encoded by topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Pengfei Gu , Huimin Li , Haoteng Tang , Dongkuan , Xu , Erik Enriquez , DongChul Kim , Bin Fu , Danny Z. Chen

Mapper, a topological algorithm, is frequently used as an exploratory tool to build a graphical representation of data. This representation can help to gain a better understanding of the intrinsic shape of high-dimensional genomic data and…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Erik J. Amézquita , Farzana Nasrin , Kathleen M. Storey , Masato Yoshizawa

Neural networks used for image classification tasks in critical applications must be tested with sufficient realistic data to assure their correctness. To effectively test an image classification neural network, one must obtain realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Taejoon Byun , Abhishek Vijayakumar , Sanjai Rayadurgam , Darren Cofer

Deep learning models exhibit limited generalizability across different domains. Specifically, transferring knowledge from available entangled domain features(source/target domain) and categorical features to new unseen categorical features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Qingjie Meng , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Object recognition is a key enabler across industry and defense. As technology changes, algorithms must keep pace with new requirements and data. New modalities and higher resolution sensors should allow for increased algorithm robustness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Samuel Rivera , Joel Klipfel , Deborah Weeks

Recently, topological deep learning (TDL), which integrates algebraic topology with deep neural networks, has achieved tremendous success in processing point-cloud data, emerging as a promising paradigm in data science. However, TDL has not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Xiang Liu , Zhe Su , Yongyi Shi , Yiying Tong , Ge Wang , Guo-Wei Wei

Many tasks in computer vision can be cast as a "label changing" problem, where the goal is to make a semantic change to the appearance of an image or some subject in an image in order to alter the class membership. Although successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Jacob R. Gardner , Paul Upchurch , Matt J. Kusner , Yixuan Li , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Kavita Bala , John E. Hopcroft