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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…

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Let $(N,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold with the distance function $d(x,y)$ and an open subset $M\subset N$. For $x\in M$ we denote by $D_x$ the distance difference function $D_x:F\times F\to \mathbb R$, given by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

What is a diffusion model actually doing when it turns noise into a photograph? We show that the deterministic DDIM reverse chain operates as a Partitioned Iterated Function System (PIFS) and that this framework serves as a unified design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ann Dooms

In shape optimisation it is desirable to obtain deformations of a given mesh without negative impact on the mesh quality. We propose a new algorithm using least square formulations of the Cauchy-Riemann equations. Our method allows to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 José A. Iglesias , Kevin Sturm , Florian Wechsung

We introduce an alternative formalization of curved spaces in which the concept of a pointwise affine space, as defined here, replaces that of a manifold. New or modified definitions of familiar notions from differential geometry such as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Dan Jonsson

This paper introduces a new metric and mean on the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed-rank. The proposed metric is derived from a well-chosen Riemannian quotient geometry that generalizes the reductive geometry of the positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Silvere Bonnabel , Rodolphe Sepulchre

A new geometrically exact micro-structured model is constructed using a generalisation of the notion of Riemann-Cartan manifolds and fibre bundle theory of rank 3. This model is based around the concept of two different length scales: a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Mewen Crespo , Guy Casale , Loïc Le Marrec

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of diffraction tomography (DT), which is an inverse scattering technique used to find material properties of an object by illuminating it with probing waves and recording the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Florian Faucher , Clemens Kirisits , Michael Quellmalz , Otmar Scherzer , Eric Setterqvist

Random fields are useful mathematical objects in the characterization of non-deterministic complex systems. A fundamental issue in the evolution of dynamical systems is how intrinsic properties of such structures change in time. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alexandre L. M. Levada

Fine-tuning and naturalness, the sensitivity of low-energy observables to small changes in the fundamental parameters of a theory, are cornerstones of physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose a new measure of fine-tuning based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 James Halverson , Thomas R. Harvey , Michael Nee

We extend Fourier analysis to curved spaces by defining a Generalized Fourier Transform (GFT) on any Riemannian manifold $\Sigma$ via spectral decomposition. Under minimal requirements that the transform is an isometric isomorphism and has…

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Finding surface mappings with least distortion arises from many applications in various fields. Extremal Teichm\"uller maps are surface mappings with least conformality distortion. The existence and uniqueness of the extremal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Lui Lok Ming , Gu Xianfeng , Yau Shing-Tung

Contrast functions play a fundamental role in information geometry, providing a means for generating the geometric structures of a statistical manifold: a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a pair of torsion-free conjugate affine connections.…

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In the realm of deep learning, the Fisher information matrix (FIM) gives novel insights and useful tools to characterize the loss landscape, perform second-order optimization, and build geometric learning theories. The exact FIM is either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

The non-parametric version of Amari's dually affine Information Geometry provides a practical calculus to perform computations of interest in statistical machine learning. The method uses the notion of a statistical bundle, a mathematical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Giovanni Pistone

We introduce diffusion geometry as a new framework for geometric and topological data analysis. Diffusion geometry uses the Bakry-Emery $\Gamma$-calculus of Markov diffusion operators to define objects from Riemannian geometry on a wide…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Iolo Jones

Diffraction tomography aims to recover an object's scattering potential from measured wave fields. In the classical setting, the object is illuminated by plane waves from many directions, and the Fourier diffraction theorem provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks

Given any $f$ a locally finitely piecewise affine homeomorphism of $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ onto $\Delta \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ (for $d=3, 4$) such that $f\in W^{1,p}(\Omega, \mathbb{R}^d)$ and $f^{-1}\in W^{1,q}(\Delta, \mathbb{R}^d)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Daniel Campbell , Luigi D'Onofrio , Tomáš Vítek

We consider the problem of distortion minimal morphing of $n$-dimensional compact connected oriented smooth manifolds without boundary embedded in $\R^{n+1}$. Distortion involves bending and stretching. In this paper, minimal distortion…

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