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Regressing rotations on SO(3) manifold using deep neural networks is an important yet unsolved problem. The gap between the Euclidean network output space and the non-Euclidean SO(3) manifold imposes a severe challenge for neural network…

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In recent years, with the large-scale expansion of graph data, there has been an increased focus on Riemannian manifold data spaces other than Euclidean space. In particular, the development of hyperbolic spaces has been remarkable, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Kota Fukuzawa , Atsushi Suzuki , Kenji Yamanishi

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) seeks to boost statistical power and learning efficiency by discovering structure shared across related tasks. State-of-the-art MTL representation methods, however, usually treat the latent representation matrix as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-07 Aoran Chen , Yang Feng

Image set-based visual classification methods have achieved remarkable performance, via characterising the image set in terms of a non-singular covariance matrix on a symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold. To adapt to complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Rui Wang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Ziheng Chen , Tianyang Xu , Josef Kittler

Representing images and videos with Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, and considering the Riemannian geometry of the resulting space, has been shown to yield high discriminative power in many visual recognition tasks.…

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Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," aims to enable models to quickly adapt to new tasks with minimal data. While traditional methods like Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) optimize parameters in Euclidean space, they often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 JuneYoung Park , YuMi Lee , Tae-Joon Kim , Jang-Hwan Choi

Neural networks are playing a crucial role in everyday life, with the most modern generative models able to achieve impressive results. Nonetheless, their functioning is still not very clear, and several strategies have been adopted to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Alessandro Benfenati , Alessio Marta

The paper introduces a novel non-parametric Riemannian regression method using Isometric Riemannian Manifolds (IRMs). The proposed technique, Intrinsic Local Polynomial Regression on IRMs (ILPR-IRMs), enables global data mapping between…

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis. By explicitly modeling the geometric structure of data…

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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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benyamin Ghojogh

Mirror Descent (MD) is a scalable first-order method widely used in large-scale optimization, with applications in image processing, policy optimization, and neural network training. This paper generalizes MD to optimization on Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Jiaxin Jiang , Lei Shi , Jiyuan Tan

Recent advances suggest that encoding images through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and then interpreting such matrices as points on Riemannian manifolds can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account…

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Deep Neural Networks are widely used for solving complex problems in several scientific areas, such as speech recognition, machine translation, image analysis. The strategies employed to investigate their theoretical properties mainly rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Alessandro Benfenati , Alessio Marta

Dictionary leaning (DL) and dimensionality reduction (DR) are powerful tools to analyze high-dimensional noisy signals. This paper presents a proposal of a novel Riemannian joint dimensionality reduction and dictionary learning (R-JDRDL) on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Hiroyuki Kasai , Bamdev Mishra

Matrix manifolds, such as manifolds of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and Grassmann manifolds, appear in many applications. Recently, by applying the theory of gyrogroups and gyrovector spaces that is a powerful framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Xuan Son Nguyen , Shuo Yang

Symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices (e.g., covariances, graph Laplacians, etc.) are widely used to model the relationship of spatial or temporal domain. Nevertheless, SPD matrices are theoretically embedded on Riemannian manifolds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Tong Zhang , Wenming Zheng , Zhen Cui , Chaolong Li

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have received wide attention in machine learning due to their intrinsic capacity to encode underlying structural correlation in data. Many successful Riemannian metrics have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziheng Chen , Yue Song , Tianyang Xu , Zhiwu Huang , Xiao-Jun Wu , Nicu Sebe

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pawel Gajer , Jacques Ravel

Normalization layers are crucial for deep learning, but their Euclidean formulations are inadequate for data on manifolds. On the other hand, many Riemannian manifolds in machine learning admit gyro-structures, enabling principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ziheng Chen , Xiao-Jun Wu , Bernhard Schölkopf , Nicu Sebe

Manifold learning-based encoders have been playing important roles in nonlinear dimensionality reduction (NLDR) for data exploration. However, existing methods can often fail to preserve geometric, topological and/or distributional…

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