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Finding an interpretable non-redundant representation of real-world data is one of the key problems in Machine Learning. Biological neural networks are known to solve this problem quite well in unsupervised manner, yet unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Denis Kuzminykh , Laida Kushnareva , Timofey Grigoryev , Alexander Zatolokin

We introduce a novel neural network architecture for encoding and synthesis of 3D shapes, particularly their structures. Our key insight is that 3D shapes are effectively characterized by their hierarchical organization of parts, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Jun Li , Kai Xu , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Ersin Yumer , Hao Zhang , Leonidas Guibas

Integrating compositional and symbolic properties into current distributional semantic spaces can enhance the interpretability, controllability, compositionality, and generalisation capabilities of Transformer-based auto-regressive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yingji Zhang , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

High-dimensional multiplex graphs are characterized by their high number of complementary and divergent dimensions. The existence of multiple hierarchical latent relations between the graph dimensions poses significant challenges to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Kamel Abdous , Nairouz Mrabah , Mohamed Bouguessa

We present an approach to learning features that represent the local geometry around a point in an unstructured point cloud. Such features play a central role in geometric registration, which supports diverse applications in robotics and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Marc Khoury , Qian-Yi Zhou , Vladlen Koltun

The Manifold Hypothesis is a widely accepted tenet of Machine Learning which asserts that nominally high-dimensional data are in fact concentrated near a low-dimensional manifold, embedded in high-dimensional space. This phenomenon is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Nick Whiteley , Annie Gray , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Neural models learn data representations that lie on low-dimensional manifolds, yet modeling the relation between these representational spaces is an ongoing challenge. By integrating spectral geometry principles into neural modeling, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marco Fumero , Marco Pegoraro , Valentino Maiorca , Francesco Locatello , Emanuele Rodolà

Point cloud is a crucial representation of 3D contents, which has been widely used in many areas such as virtual reality, mixed reality, autonomous driving, etc. With the boost of the number of points in the data, how to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Kang You , Pan Gao , Qing Li

In the last years, deep learning has shown to be a game-changing technology in artificial intelligence thanks to the numerous successes it reached in diverse application fields. Among others, the use of deep learning for the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Vito Bellini , Angelo Schiavone , Tommaso Di Noia , Azzurra Ragone , Eugenio Di Sciascio

Manifolds discovered by machine learning models provide a compact representation of the underlying data. Geodesics on these manifolds define locally length-minimising curves and provide a notion of distance, which are key for reduced-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Daniel Kelshaw , Luca Magri

We study the problem of how to build a deep learning representation for 3D shape. Deep learning has shown to be very effective in variety of visual applications, such as image classification and object detection. However, it has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Zhuotun Zhu , Xinggang Wang , Song Bai , Cong Yao , Xiang Bai

We isolate a geometric mechanism that complements the dynamical suppression of macroscopic interference: In a high-dimensional Hilbert space, almost all state vectors are nearly orthogonal, accommodating an exponentially large reservoir of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Karl Svozil

Some extremely low-dimensional yet crucial geometric eigen-lengths often determine the success of some geometric tasks. For example, the height of an object is important to measure to check if it can fit between the shelves of a cabinet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yijia Weng , Kaichun Mo , Ruoxi Shi , Yanchao Yang , Leonidas J. Guibas

Geometric graphs are a special kind of graph with geometric features, which are vital to model many scientific problems. Unlike generic graphs, geometric graphs often exhibit physical symmetries of translations, rotations, and reflections,…

Recent literature has shown that symbolic data, such as text and graphs, is often better represented by points on a curved manifold, rather than in Euclidean space. However, geometrical operations on manifolds are generally more complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Max Aalto , Nakul Verma

Deep neural network autoencoders are routinely used computationally for model reduction. They allow recognizing the intrinsic dimension of data that lie in a $k$-dimensional subset $K$ of an input Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Matthew D. Kvalheim , Eduardo D. Sontag

Point cloud is a fundamental 3D representation which is widely used in real world applications such as autonomous driving. As a newly-developed media format which is characterized by complexity and irregularity, point cloud creates a need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Wei Yan , Yiting shao , Shan Liu , Thomas H Li , Zhu Li , Ge Li

We study fixed point sets for holomorphic automorphisms (and endomorphisms) on complex manifolds. The main object of our interest is to determine the number and configuration of fixed points that forces an automorphism (endomorphism) to be…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Buma L. Fridman , Daowei Ma , Jean-Pierre Vigue

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in various learning tasks, with successful applications in fields like molecular biology, transportation systems, and electrical grids. These fields naturally use graph data, benefiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Caio F. Deberaldini Netto , Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz

This study proposes an automated data mining framework based on autoencoders and experimentally verifies its effectiveness in feature extraction and data dimensionality reduction. Through the encoding-decoding structure, the autoencoder can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yaxin Liang , Xinshi Li , Xin Huang , Ziqi Zhang , Yue Yao