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Semi-supervised learning with manifold regularization is a classical framework for jointly learning from both labeled and unlabeled data, where the key requirement is that the support of the unknown marginal distribution has the geometric…

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Recent efforts have extended the flow-matching framework to discrete generative modeling. One strand of models directly works with the continuous probabilities instead of discrete tokens, which we colloquially refer to as Continuous-State…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chaoran Cheng , Jiahan Li , Jiajun Fan , Ge Liu

Inaccurate optical flow estimates in and near occluded regions, and out-of-boundary regions are two of the current significant limitations of optical flow estimation algorithms. Recent state-of-the-art optical flow estimation algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Fisseha Admasu Ferede , Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian

In graph motivated learning, label propagation largely depends on data affinity represented as edges between connected data points. The affinity assignment implicitly assumes even distribution of data on the manifold. This assumption may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Abhishek , Shekhar Verma

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a desirable paradigm in computer vision due to the inability of supervised models to learn representations that can generalize in domains with limited labels. The recent popularity of SSL has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Romain Cosentino , Sarath Shekkizhar , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr , Antonio Ortega

While modern representation learning relies heavily on global error signals, decentralized algorithms driven by local interactions offer a fundamental distributed alternative. However, the macroscopic convergence properties of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zilin Li , Weiwei Xu , Xuchun Tong , Xuanbo Lu , Xuanqi Zhao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has delivered superior performance on a variety of downstream vision tasks. Two main-stream SSL frameworks have been proposed, i.e., Instance Discrimination (ID) and Masked Image Modeling (MIM). ID pulls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Chenxin Tao , Xizhou Zhu , Weijie Su , Gao Huang , Bin Li , Jie Zhou , Yu Qiao , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai

Non linear sigma models are quantum field theories describing, in the large deviations sense, random fluctuations of harmonic maps between a Riemann surface and a Riemannian manifold. Via their formal renormalization group analysis, they…

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Disentangled representation learning aims to capture the underlying explanatory factors of observed data, enabling a principled understanding of the data-generating process. Recent advances in generative modeling have introduced new…

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Crystalline materials are a fundamental component in next-generation technologies, yet modeling their distribution presents unique computational challenges. Of the plausible arrangements of atoms in a periodic lattice only a vanishingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Benjamin Kurt Miller , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Anuroop Sriram , Brandon M Wood

Parameter-efficient adaptation of pretrained vision models is commonly performed through linear probes, prompts, low-rank updates, or lightweight residual modules. While effective, these methods usually treat adaptation as a discrete…

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Learning faithful graph representations as sets of vertex embeddings has become a fundamental intermediary step in a wide range of machine learning applications. We propose the systematic use of symmetric spaces in representation learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Federico López , Beatrice Pozzetti , Steve Trettel , Michael Strube , Anna Wienhard

This paper advocates a novel framework for segmenting a dataset in a Riemannian manifold $M$ into clusters lying around low-dimensional submanifolds of $M$. Important examples of $M$, for which the proposed clustering algorithm is…

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Medical image segmentation remains challenging in low-data regimes, where scarce annotations often yield poor generalization and ambiguous boundaries with missing fine structures. Recent self-supervised pretraining has improved…

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Riemannian metric learning is an emerging field in machine learning, unlocking new ways to encode complex data structures beyond traditional distance metric learning. While classical approaches rely on global distances in Euclidean space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Samuel Gruffaz , Josua Sassen

We present a manifold-based machine learning encoder-decoder method for learning dynamics in time, notably partial differential equations (PDEs), in which the manifold latent space evolves according to Ricci flow. This can be accomplished…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Andrew Gracyk

Flow-based generative models are composed of invertible transformations between two random variables of the same dimension. Therefore, flow-based models cannot be adequately trained if the dimension of the data distribution does not match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hyeongju Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Woo Hyun Kang , Joun Yeop Lee , Nam Soo Kim

Purpose: To systematically investigate the influence of various data consistency layers, (semi-)supervised learning and ensembling strategies, defined in a $\Sigma$-net, for accelerated parallel MR image reconstruction using deep learning.…

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Riemannian geometry provides the fundamental framework for optimization on nonlinear spaces such as matrix manifolds, which arise in machine learning, signal processing, and robotics. While the underlying theory is classical, existing…

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In this paper, we consider the interpretability of the foundational Laplacian-based semi-supervised learning approaches on graphs. We introduce a novel flow-based learning framework that subsumes the foundational approaches and additionally…

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