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Data augmentation is a powerful technique to enhance the performance of a deep learning task but has received less attention in 3D deep learning. It is well known that when 3D shapes are sparsely represented with low point density, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Tuan-Anh Vu , Srinjay Sarkar , Zhiyuan Zhang , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

This research uses deep learning to estimate the topology of manifolds represented by sparse, unordered point cloud scenes in 3D. A new labelled dataset was synthesised to train neural networks and evaluate their ability to estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Dylan Peek , Matt P. Skerritt , Stephan Chalup

Carlsson, Singh and Memoli's TDA mapper takes a point cloud dataset and outputs a graph that depends on several parameter choices. Dey, Memoli, and Wang developed Multiscale Mapper for abstract topological spaces so that parameter choices…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Wako Bungula , Isabel Darcy

High quality upsampling of sparse 3D point clouds is critically useful for a wide range of geometric operations such as reconstruction, rendering, meshing, and analysis. In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm that enables an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Wentai Zhang , Haoliang Jiang , Zhangsihao Yang , Soji Yamakawa , Kenji Shimada , Levent Burak Kara

We propose a direct mesh-free method for performing topology optimization by integrating a density field approximation neural network with a displacement field approximation neural network. We show that this direct integration approach can…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Aditya Joglekar , Hongrui Chen , Levent Burak Kara

We develop a framework for analyzing multivariate time series using topological data analysis (TDA) methods. The proposed methodology involves converting the multivariate time series to point cloud data, calculating Wasserstein distances…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Chengyuan Wu , Carol Anne Hargreaves

To create heterogeneous, multiscale structures with unprecedented functionalities, recent topology optimization approaches design either fully aperiodic systems or functionally graded structures, which compete in terms of design freedom and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yu-Chin Chan , Daicong Da , Liwei Wang , Wei Chen

We present a nonlinear interpolation technique for parametric fields that exploits optimal transportation of coherent structures of the solution to achieve accurate performance. The approach generalizes the nonlinear interpolation procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Simona Cucchiara , Angelo Iollo , Tommaso Taddei , Haysam Telib

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) studies the shape of data. A common topological descriptor is the persistence diagram, which encodes topological features in a topological space at different scales. Turner, Mukeherjee, and Boyer showed that…

Topology optimization under uncertainty (TOuU) often defines objectives and constraints by statistical moments of geometric and physical quantities of interest. Most traditional TOuU methods use gradient-based optimization algorithms and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Subhayan De , Jerrad Hampton , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

Seismic data interpolation is a critical pre-processing step for improving seismic imaging quality and remains a focus of academic innovation. To address the computational inefficiencies caused by extensive iterative resampling in current…

We propose an optimization proxy in terms of iterative implicit gradient methods for solving constrained optimization problems with nonconvex loss functions. This framework can be applied to a broad range of machine learning settings,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Harshal D. Kaushik , Ming Jin

While the Implicit Bias(or Implicit Regularization) of standard loss functions has been studied, the optimization geometry induced by discriminative metric-learning objectives remains largely unexplored.To the best of our knowledge, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiawen Li

Topological learning is a wide research area aiming at uncovering the mutual spatial relationships between the elements of a set. Some of the most common and oldest approaches involve the use of unsupervised competitive neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Ciravegna , Vincenzo Randazzo , Giansalvo Cirrincione

Topological correctness plays a critical role in many image segmentation tasks, yet most networks are trained using pixel-wise loss functions, such as Dice, neglecting topological accuracy. Existing topology-aware methods often lack robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Laurin Lux , Alexander H. Berger , Alexander Weers , Nico Stucki , Daniel Rueckert , Ulrich Bauer , Johannes C. Paetzold

In this work we use the persistent homology method, a technique in topological data analysis (TDA), to extract essential topological features from the data space and combine them with deep learning features for classification tasks. In TDA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mariana Dória Prata Lima , Gilson Antonio Giraldi , Gastão Florêncio Miranda Junior

Spinodoid architected materials have drawn significant attention due to their unique nature in stochasticity, aperiodicity, and bi-continuity. Compared to classic periodic truss-, beam- and plate-based lattice architectures, spinodoids are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shiguang Deng , Doksoo Lee , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Stefan Knapik , Liwei Wang , Horacio D. Espinosa , Wei Chen

We present a new framework for solving general topology optimization (TO) problems that find an optimal material distribution within a design space to maximize the performance of a structure while satisfying design constraints. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Zisheng Ye , Wenxiao Pan

In this paper we propose a Deep Learning architecture to approximate diffeomorphisms diffeotopic to the identity. We consider a control system of the form $\dot x = \sum_{i=1}^lF_i(x)u_i$, with linear dependence in the controls, and we use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Alessandro Scagliotti

A challenging problem in decentralized optimization is to develop algorithms with fast convergence on random and time varying topologies under unreliable and bandwidth-constrained communication network. This paper studies a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Chung-Yiu Yau , Haoming Liu , Hoi-To Wai