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Persistence diagrams are common descriptors of the topological structure of data appearing in various classification and regression tasks. They can be generalized to Radon measures supported on the birth-death plane and endowed with an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Alex Elchesen , Iryna Hartsock , Jose A. Perea , Tatum Rask

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) involves techniques of analyzing the underlying structure and connectivity of data. However, traditional methods like persistent homology can be computationally demanding, motivating the development of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Dylan Peek , Matthew P. Skerritt , Siddharth Pritam , Stephan Chalup

Intelligent behaviour in the real-world requires the ability to acquire new knowledge from an ongoing sequence of experiences while preserving and reusing past knowledge. We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised representation learning…

We develop Riemannian approaches to variational autoencoders (VAEs) for PDE-type ambient data with regularizing geometric latent dynamics, which we refer to as VAE-DLM, or VAEs with dynamical latent manifolds. We redevelop the VAE framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrew Gracyk

Nonlinear manifold learning from unorganized data points is a very challenging unsupervised learning and data visualization problem with a great variety of applications. In this paper we present a new algorithm for manifold learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Zhenyue Zhang , Hongyuan Zha

Learning compressed representations of multivariate time series (MTS) facilitates data analysis in the presence of noise and redundant information, and for a large number of variates and time steps. However, classical dimensionality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Lorenzo Livi , Karl Øyvind Mikalsen , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

Low-dimensional embeddings for data from disparate sources play critical roles in multi-modal machine learning, multimedia information retrieval, and bioinformatics. In this paper, we propose a supervised dimensionality reduction method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Yanjun Li , Bihan Wen , Hao Cheng , Yoram Bresler

Topological methods for data analysis present opportunities for enforcing certain invariances of broad interest in computer vision, including view-point in activity analysis, articulation in shape analysis, and measurement invariance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Anirudh Som , Kowshik Thopalli , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Vinay Venkataraman , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Representation learning has proven to be a powerful methodology in a wide variety of machine learning applications. For atmospheric dynamics, however, it has so far not been considered, arguably due to the lack of large-scale, labeled…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Sebastian Hoffmann , Christian Lessig

In this paper, we present a novel low rank representation (LRR) algorithm for data lying on the manifold of square root densities. Unlike traditional LRR methods which rely on the assumption that the data points are vectors in the Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Yifan Fu , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , David Tien

Representation learning on dynamic graphs requires capturing complex dependencies that evolve across both time and structure. Existing approaches typically adopt fixed temporal decay schemes or predetermined structural propagation depths,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Qian Chang , Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu , Runsong Jia , Xia Li , Guoping Hu , Xiufeng Cheng , Jinqing Yang , Mengjia Wu , Yi Zhang

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a branch of computational mathematics, bridging algebraic topology and data science, that provides compact, noise-robust representations of complex structures. Deep neural networks (DNNs) learn millions of…

We propose a higher-order dimensionality reduction framework based on the Trace Ratio (TR) optimization problem. We establish conditions for existence and uniqueness of solutions and clarify the theoretical connection between the Trace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Alaeddine Zahir , Franck Dufrenois , Khalide Jbilou , Ahmed Ratnani

The constraint of neighborhood consistency or local consistency is widely used for robust image matching. In this paper, we focus on learning neighborhood topology consistent descriptors (TCDesc), while former works of learning descriptors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Honghu Pan , Fanyang Meng , Nana Fan , Zhenyu He

A key challenge in lifelong imitation learning (LIL) is enabling agents to acquire new skills from expert demonstrations while retaining prior knowledge. This requires preserving the low-dimensional manifolds and geometric structures that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kaushik Roy , Giovanni D'urso , Nicholas Lawrance , Brendan Tidd , Peyman Moghadam

Manifold models provide low-dimensional representations that are useful for processing and analyzing data in a transformation-invariant way. In this paper, we study the problem of learning smooth pattern transformation manifolds from image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Elif Vural , Pascal Frossard

Data similarity is a key concept in many data-driven applications. Many algorithms are sensitive to similarity measures. To tackle this fundamental problem, automatically learning of similarity information from data via self-expression has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Zhao Kang , Yiwei Lu , Yuanzhang Su , Changsheng Li , Zenglin Xu

High dimensional data is often assumed to be concentrated on or near a low-dimensional manifold. Autoencoders (AE) is a popular technique to learn representations of such data by pushing it through a neural network with a low dimension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Amos Gropp , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

Feature selection is an important tool to deal with high dimensional data. In unsupervised case, many popular algorithms aim at maintaining the structure of the original data. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-06 Xiaoyun Li , Chengxi Wu , Ping Li

Network embedding is an effective technique to learn the low-dimensional representations of nodes in networks. Real-world networks are usually with multiplex or having multi-view representations from different relations. Recently, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qifan Wang , Yi Fang , Anirudh Ravula , Ruining He , Bin Shen , Jingang Wang , Xiaojun Quan , Dongfang Liu