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The general inverse kinematics (IK) problem of a manipulator, namely that of acquiring the self-motion manifold (SMM) of all admissible joint angles for a desired end-effector pose, plays a vital role in robotics modeling, planning and…

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Learned graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently been established as fast and accurate alternatives for principled solvers in simulating the dynamics of physical systems. In many application domains across science and engineering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Qingqing Zhao , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Fast inverse kinematics (IK) is a central component in robotic motion planning. For complex robots, IK methods are often based on root search and non-linear optimization algorithms. These algorithms can be massively sped up using a neural…

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Iterative solvers are widely used to accurately simulate physical systems. These solvers require initial guesses to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions. In this contribution, we introduce a novel method to accelerate…

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Inverse problems consist in reconstructing signals from incomplete sets of measurements and their performance is highly dependent on the quality of the prior knowledge encoded via regularization. While traditional approaches focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Inverse Kinematics (IK) solves the problem of mapping from the Cartesian space to the joint configuration space of a robotic arm. It has a wide range of applications in areas such as computer graphics, protein structure prediction, and…

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Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success across various applications. To achieve completeness -- that is, the universal approximation property over the space of equivariant functions -- the network must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jiacheng Cen , Anyi Li , Ning Lin , Tingyang Xu , Yu Rong , Deli Zhao , Zihe Wang , Wenbing Huang

Many scientific problems require to process data in the form of geometric graphs. Unlike generic graph data, geometric graphs exhibit symmetries of translations, rotations, and/or reflections. Researchers have leveraged such inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiaqi Han , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang

The inverse mapping of GANs'(Generative Adversarial Nets) generator has a great potential value.Hence, some works have been developed to construct the inverse function of generator by directly learning or adversarial learning.While the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Junyu Luo , Yong Xu , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Incorporating Euclidean symmetries (e.g. rotation equivariance) as inductive biases into graph neural networks has improved their generalization ability and data efficiency in unbounded physical dynamics modeling. However, in various…

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Current graph neural networks (GNNs) lack generalizability with respect to scales (graph sizes, graph diameters, edge weights, etc..) when solving many graph analysis problems. Taking the perspective of synthesizing graph theory programs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Hao Tang , Zhiao Huang , Jiayuan Gu , Bao-Liang Lu , Hao Su

Many tasks that rely on representations of nodes in graphs would benefit if those representations were faithful to distances between nodes in the graph. Geometric techniques to extract such representations have poor scaling over large graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Matthew Walker , Bo Yan , Yiou Xiao , Yafei Wang , Ayan Acharya

Graph prediction problems prevail in data analysis and machine learning. The inverse prediction problem, namely to infer input data from given output labels, is of emerging interest in various applications. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-22 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Local learning of sparse image models has proven to be very effective to solve inverse problems in many computer vision applications. To learn such models, the data samples are often clustered using the K-means algorithm with the Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Julio Cesar Ferreira , Elif Vural , Christine Guillemot

The inverse kinematics (IK) problem of continuum robots has been investigated in depth in the past decades. Under the constant-curvature bending assumption, closed-form IK solution has been obtained for continuum robots with variable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yifan Wang , Zhonghao Wu , Longfei Wang , Bo Feng , Kai Xu

Inverse Kinematics (IK) is to find the robot's configurations that satisfy the target pose of the end effector. In motion planning, diverse configurations were required in case a feasible trajectory was not found. Meanwhile, collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Qinglong Meng , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang

Singular configurations cause loss of task-space mobility, unbounded joint velocities, and solver divergence in inverse kinematics (IK) for serial manipulators. No existing survey bridges classical singularity-robust IK with rapidly growing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Vishnu Rudrasamudram , Hariharasudan Malaichamee

Modern robotics applications require an inverse kinematics (IK) solver that is fast, robust and consistent, and that provides all possible solutions. Currently, the Franka robot arm is the most widely used manipulator in robotics research.…

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Learning from graph-structured data is an important task in machine learning and artificial intelligence, for which Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great promise. Motivated by recent advances in geometric representation learning, we…

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