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Topological data analysis is becoming a popular way to study high dimensional feature spaces without any contextual clues or assumptions. This paper concerns itself with one popular topological feature, which is the number of…

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Wasserstein distance, especially among symmetric positive-definite matrices, has broad and deep influences on development of artificial intelligence (AI) and other branches of computer science. A natural idea is to describe the geometry of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yihao Luo , Shiqiang Zhang , Yueqi Cao , Huafei Sun

Essential characteristics of signal data can be captured by the autocovariance matrix, which, in the stationary scenarios, is Toeplitz Hermitian positive definite (HPD). In this paper, several well-known Riemannian geometric structures of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Yusuke Ono , Linyu Peng

We explore the connection between two problems that have arisen independently in the signal processing and related fields: the estimation of the geometric mean of a set of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices and their approximate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Marco Congedo , Bijan Afsari , Alexandre Barachant , Maher Moakher

Recent advances suggest that encoding images through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and then interpreting such matrices as points on Riemannian manifolds can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Azadeh Alavi , Arnold Wiliem , Kun Zhao , Brian C. Lovell , Conrad Sanderson

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have received wide attention in machine learning due to their intrinsic capacity to encode underlying structural correlation in data. Many successful Riemannian metrics have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Tianyang Xu , Zhiwu Huang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Nicu Sebe

Deep neural networks for learning Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices are gaining increasing attention in machine learning. Despite the significant progress, most existing SPD networks use traditional Euclidean classifiers on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Xiaojun Wu , Nicu Sebe

This paper proposes an innovative extension of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that transcends the traditional assumption of data lying in Euclidean space, enabling its application to data on Riemannian manifolds. The primary challenge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Oldemar Rodríguez

The Riemannian geometry of covariance matrices has been essential to several successful applications, in computer vision, biomedical signal and image processing, and radar data processing. For these applications, an important ongoing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Salem Said , Hatem Hajri , Lionel Bombrun , Baba C. Vemuri

Latent variable models are powerful tools for learning low-dimensional manifolds from high-dimensional data. However, when dealing with constrained data such as unit-norm vectors or symmetric positive-definite matrices, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Leonel Rozo , Miguel González-Duque , Noémie Jaquier , Søren Hauberg

Riemannian geometry is a mathematical field which has been the cornerstone of revolutionary scientific discoveries such as the theory of general relativity. Despite early uses in robot design and recent applications for exploiting data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Noémie Jaquier , Tamim Asfour

Although many machine learning algorithms involve learning subspaces with particular characteristics, optimizing a parameter matrix that is constrained to represent a subspace can be challenging. One solution is to use Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Stephen Giguere , Francisco Garcia , Sridhar Mahadevan

This paper introduces sparse coding and dictionary learning for Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, which are often used in machine learning, computer vision and related areas. Unlike traditional sparse coding schemes that work in…

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Riemannian optimization is concerned with problems, where the independent variable lies on a smooth manifold. There is a number of problems from numerical linear algebra that fall into this category, where the manifold is usually specified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Rasmus Jensen , Ralf Zimmermann

Data which lie in the space $\mathcal{P}_{m\,}$, of $m \times m$ symmetric positive definite matrices, (sometimes called tensor data), play a fundamental role in applications including medical imaging, computer vision, and radar signal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Salem Said , Lionel Bombrun , Yannick Berthoumieu , Jonathan Manton

Many machine learning applications are naturally formulated as optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds. The main idea behind Riemannian optimization is to maintain the feasibility of the variables while moving along a descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Andi Han , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Parametrizations of data manifolds in shape spaces can be computed using the rich toolbox of Riemannian geometry. This, however, often comes with high computational costs, which raises the question if one can learn an efficient neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Josua Sassen , Klaus Hildebrandt , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

Matrix-valued optimization tasks, including those involving symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, arise in a wide range of applications in machine learning, data science and statistics. Classically, such problems are solved via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Cheng , Melanie Weber

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

Data-driven Riemannian geometry has emerged as a powerful tool for interpretable representation learning, offering improved efficiency in downstream tasks. Moving forward, it is crucial to balance cheap manifold mappings with efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Willem Diepeveen , Georgios Batzolis , Zakhar Shumaylov , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb