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Modern generative models hold great promise for accelerating diverse tasks involving the simulation of physical systems, but they must be adapted to the specific constraints of each domain. Significant progress has been made for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-19 Louis Grenioux , Leonardo Galliano , Ludovic Berthier , Giulio Biroli , Marylou Gabrié

We present a theoretical and empirical study of the gradient dynamics of overparameterized shallow ReLU networks with one-dimensional input, solving least-squares interpolation. We show that the gradient dynamics of such networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Francis Williams , Matthew Trager , Claudio Silva , Daniele Panozzo , Denis Zorin , Joan Bruna

We introduce the convex bundle method to solve convex, non-smooth optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds of bounded sectional curvature. Each step of our method is based on a model that involves the convex hull of previously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Ronny Bergmann , Roland Herzog , Hajg Jasa

We present a global optimization approach to optical flow estimation. The approach optimizes a classical optical flow objective over the full space of mappings between discrete grids. No descriptor matching is used. The highly regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

This paper aims at developing new shape functions adapted to smooth vanishing coefficients for scalar wave equation. It proposes the numerical analysis of their interpolation properties. The interpolation is local but high order convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard

In simulation technology, computationally expensive objective functions are often replaced by cheap surrogates, which can be obtained by interpolation. Full grid interpolation methods suffer from the so-called curse of dimensionality,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Julian Valentin

This paper proposes a generalized framework with joint normalization which learns lower-dimensional subspaces with maximum discriminative power by making use of the Riemannian geometry. In particular, we model the similarity/dissimilarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Tianci Liu , Zelin Shi , Yunpeng Liu

A new stepsize for gradient method is proposed. Combining it with the exact line search stepsizes, the gradient method achieves the optimal solution in 5 steps for 3 dimensional quadratic function minimization problem. The new stepsize is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yixin Xie , Jin-Peng Liu , Cong Sun , Ya-Xiang Yuan

In this paper we address the problem of interpolating a spline developable patch bounded by a given spline curve and the first and the last rulings of the developable surface. In order to complete the boundary of the patch a second spline…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-03-25 A. Cantón , L. Fernández-Jambrina

In areas such as kernel smoothing and non-parametric regression there is emphasis on smooth interpolation and smooth statistical models. Splines are known to have optimal smoothness properties in one and higher dimensions. It is shown, with…

Computation · Statistics 2008-09-29 Ron A. Bates , Hugo Maruri-Aguilar , Henry P. Wynn

Various tasks in scientific computing can be modeled as an optimization problem on the indefinite Stiefel manifold. We address this using the Riemannian approach, which basically consists of equipping the feasible set with a Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Dinh Van Tiep , Duong Thi Viet An , Nguyen Thi Ngoc Oanh , Nguyen Thanh Son

A new approach for simulating flows over complex geometries is developed by introducing an accurate virtual interpolation point scheme as well as a virtual local stencil approach. The present method is based on the concept of point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Seong-Kwan Park , Gahyung Jo , Hi Jun Choe

In this paper we consider an inverse problem of determining a minimal surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold. We show under a topological condition that if $\Sigma$ is a $2$-dimensional embedded minimal surface, then the knowledge of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leo Tzou

We introduce slant Riemannian maps from Riemannian manifolds to almost Hermitian manifolds as a generalization of slant immersions, invariant Riemannian maps and anti-invariant Riemannian maps. We give examples, obtain characterizations and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Bayram Sahin

The paper deals with two fundamental types of trigonometric polynomials and splines on uniform grids, which allow us to construct interpolation approximations that depend linearly on the values of the interpolated function. Fundamental on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-05 V. P. Denysiuk

We introduce a novel multiframe scene flow approach that jointly optimizes the consistency of the patch appearances and their local rigid motions from RGB-D image sequences. In contrast to the competing methods, we take advantage of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Vladislav Golyanik , Kihwan Kim , Robert Maier , Matthias Nießner , Didier Stricker , Jan Kautz

This paper is a review of recent and classical results on integrable geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds and topological obstructions to integrability. We also discuss some open problems.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey V. Bolsinov , Bozidar Jovanovic

Matching objectives underpin the success of modern generative models and rely on constructing conditional paths that transform a source distribution into a target distribution. Despite being a fundamental building block, conditional paths…

In this work, we use the Ricci flow approach to study the gap phenomenon of Riemannian manifolds with non-negative curvature and sub-critical scaling invariant curvature decay. The first main result is a quantitative Ricci flow existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Man-Chun Lee

This is a sequel to our paper `On the kernel learning problem'. We identify a canonical choice of Riemannian gradient flow, to find the stationary points in the kernel learning problem. In the presence of Gaussian noise variables, this flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Yang Li , Feng Ruan