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Implicit neural representation is a recent approach to learn shape collections as zero level-sets of neural networks, where each shape is represented by a latent code. So far, the focus has been shape reconstruction, while shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Matan Atzmon , David Novotny , Andrea Vedaldi , Yaron Lipman

Modern neural networks have shown promise for solving partial differential equations over surfaces, often by discretizing the surface as a mesh and learning with a mesh-aware graph neural network. However, graph neural networks suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Edward Berman , Luisa Li , Jung Yeon Park , Robin Walters

Implicit neural representations (INRs) mark a fundamental shift in signal modeling, moving from discrete sampled data to continuous functional representations. By parameterizing signals as neural networks, INRs provide a unified framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Dhananjaya Jayasundara , Vishal M. Patel

Neural implicit functions have emerged as a powerful representation for surfaces in 3D. Such a function can encode a high quality surface with intricate details into the parameters of a deep neural network. However, optimizing for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wang Yifan , Shihao Wu , Cengiz Oztireli , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

A neural implicit outputs a number indicating whether the given query point in space is inside, outside, or on a surface. Many prior works have focused on _latent-encoded_ neural implicits, where a latent vector encoding of a specific shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Thomas Davies , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Alec Jacobson

Implicit neural representations have emerged as a powerful tool in learning 3D geometry, offering unparalleled advantages over conventional representations like mesh-based methods. A common type of INR implicitly encodes a shape's boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shen Fan , Przemyslaw Musialski

Although static networks have been extensively studied in machine learning, data mining, and AI communities for many decades, the study of dynamic networks has recently taken center stage due to the prominence of social media and its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Tony Gracious , Shubham Gupta , Arun Kanthali , Rui M. Castro , Ambedkar Dukkipati

When optimizing over-parameterized models, such as deep neural networks, a large set of parameters can achieve zero training error. In such cases, the choice of the optimization algorithm and its respective hyper-parameters introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Gauthier Gidel , Francis Bach , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Point set is a flexible and lightweight representation widely used for 3D deep learning. However, their discrete nature prevents them from representing continuous and fine geometry, posing a major issue for learning-based shape generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shi-Lin Liu , Hao-Xiang Guo , Hao Pan , Peng-Shuai Wang , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

Representing surfaces as zero level sets of neural networks recently emerged as a powerful modeling paradigm, named Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), serving numerous downstream applications in geometric deep learning and 3D vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yaron Lipman

We present an elastic simulator for domains defined as evolving implicit functions, which is efficient, robust, and differentiable with respect to both shape and material. This simulator is motivated by applications in 3D reconstruction: it…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Gilles Daviet , Tianchang Shen , Nicholas Sharp , David I. W. Levin

We study data-driven representations for three-dimensional triangle meshes, which are one of the prevalent objects used to represent 3D geometry. Recent works have developed models that exploit the intrinsic geometry of manifolds and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-19 Ilya Kostrikov , Zhongshi Jiang , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna

This paper introduces a new learning paradigm termed Neural Metamorphosis (NeuMeta), which aims to build self-morphable neural networks. Contrary to crafting separate models for different architectures or sizes, NeuMeta directly learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Recently, neural implicit functions have demonstrated remarkable results in the field of multi-view reconstruction. However, most existing methods are tailored for dense views and exhibit unsatisfactory performance when dealing with sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Han Huang , Yulun Wu , Junsheng Zhou , Ge Gao , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

In this chapter, we utilize dynamical systems to analyze several aspects of machine learning algorithms. As an expository contribution we demonstrate how to re-formulate a wide variety of challenges from deep neural networks, (stochastic)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Dennis Chemnitz , Maximilian Engel , Christian Kuehn , Sara-Viola Kuntz

Predicting the evolution of systems that exhibit spatio-temporal dynamics in response to external stimuli is a key enabling technology fostering scientific innovation. Traditional equations-based approaches leverage first principles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Francesco Regazzoni , Stefano Pagani , Matteo Salvador , Luca Dede' , Alfio Quarteroni

Developing deep learning techniques for geometric data is an active and fruitful research area. This paper tackles the problem of sphere-type surface learning by developing a novel surface-to-image representation. Using this representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Niv Haim , Nimrod Segol , Heli Ben-Hamu , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Real-world information networks are increasingly occurring across various disciplines including online social networks and citation networks. These network data are generally characterized by sparseness, nonlinearity and heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Amina Amara , Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb , Mohamed Ben Aouicha

Reconstructing high-quality 3D objects from sparse, partial observations from a single view is of crucial importance for various applications in computer vision, robotics, and graphics. While recent neural implicit modeling methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Shivam Duggal , Zihao Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Justin Liang , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

This paper is motivated from a fundamental curiosity on what defines a category of object shapes. For example, we may have the common knowledge that a plane has wings, and a chair has legs. Given the large shape variations among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chaozheng Wu , Lin Sun , Xun Xu , Kui Jia