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The non-Euclidean geometry of hyperbolic spaces has recently garnered considerable attention in the realm of representation learning. Current endeavors in hyperbolic representation largely presuppose that the underlying hierarchies can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Menglin Yang , Min Zhou , Rex Ying , Yankai Chen , Irwin King

Despite decades of work in fast reactive planning and control, challenges remain in developing reactive motion policies on non-Euclidean manifolds and enforcing constraints while avoiding undesirable potential function local minima. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Andrew Bylard , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

3D-aware visual pretraining has proven effective in improving the performance of downstream robotic manipulation tasks. However, existing methods are constrained to Euclidean embedding spaces, whose flat geometry limits their ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jin Yang , Ping Wei , Yixin Chen , Nanning Zheng

A rich class of network models associate each node with a low-dimensional latent coordinate that controls the propensity for connections to form. Models of this type are well established in the network analysis literature, where it is…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-11 Marios Papamichalis , Kathryn Turnbull , Simon Lunagomez , Edoardo Airoldi

The Gaussian process latent variable model (GP-LVM) is a popular approach to non-linear probabilistic dimensionality reduction. One design choice for the model is the number of latent variables. We present a spike and slab prior for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-12 Zhenwen Dai , James Hensman , Neil Lawrence

We propose a geometric latent-subspace framework for generative modeling of discrete data. Specifically, we introduce latent subspaces in the exponential parameter space of product manifolds of categorical distributions as a novel method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Daniel Gonzalez-Alvarado , Jonas Cassel , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

Learning low-dimensional numerical representations from symbolic data, e.g., embedding the nodes of a graph into a geometric space, is an important concept in machine learning. While embedding into Euclidean space is common, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Thomas Bläsius , Jean-Pierre von der Heydt , Maximilian Katzmann , Nikolai Maas

Model-based offline reinforcement learning approaches generally rely on bounds of model error. Estimating these bounds is usually achieved through uncertainty estimation methods. In this work, we combine parametric and nonparametric methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Guy Tennenholtz , Shie Mannor

Hyperbolic space is increasingly used for hierarchical, tree-like, and network-structured data, but likelihood-based density modeling on hyperbolic space remains relatively limited. This paper develops finite mixture modeling with isotropic…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Kisung You

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) learn joint representations by mapping images and text into a shared latent space. However, recent research highlights that deterministic embeddings from standard VLMs often struggle to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aishwarya Venkataramanan , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

Representing graphs as sets of node embeddings in certain curved Riemannian manifolds has recently gained momentum in machine learning due to their desirable geometric inductive biases, e.g., hierarchical structures benefit from hyperbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Calin Cruceru , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea

We present the Mixed Likelihood Gaussian process latent variable model (GP-LVM), capable of modeling data with attributes of different types. The standard formulation of GP-LVM assumes that each observation is drawn from a Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Samuel Murray , Hedvig Kjellström

Due to its geometric properties, hyperbolic space can support high-fidelity embeddings of tree- and graph-structured data, upon which various hyperbolic networks have been developed. Existing hyperbolic networks encode geometric priors not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tao Yu , Christopher De Sa

Link prediction is a paradigmatic problem in network science with a variety of applications. In latent space network models this problem boils down to ranking pairs of nodes in the order of increasing latent distances between them. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-03 Maksim Kitsak , Ivan Voitalov , Dmitri Krioukov

This paper shows that many hyperbolic manifolds obtained by glueing arithmetic pieces embed into higher-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds as codimension-one totally geodesic submanifolds. As a consequence, many Gromov--Pyatetski-Shapiro and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Alexander Kolpakov , Stefano Riolo , Leone Slavich

Non-Euclidean foundation models increasingly place representations in curved spaces such as hyperbolic geometry. We show that this geometry creates a boundary-driven asymmetry that backdoor triggers can exploit. Near the boundary, small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ali Baheri

We present a large scale hyperbolic recommender system. We discuss why hyperbolic geometry is a more suitable underlying geometry for many recommendation systems and cover the fundamental milestones and insights that we have gained from its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , Stephen R. Hardwick , David R. Wardrope , Fabon Dzogang , Fabio Daolio , Saúl Vargas

Hyperbolic geometry, a Riemannian manifold endowed with constant sectional negative curvature, has been considered an alternative embedding space in many learning scenarios, \eg, natural language processing, graph learning, \etc, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Trung Le , Dinh Phung

In recent years, manifold learning has become increasingly popular as a tool for performing non-linear dimensionality reduction. This has led to the development of numerous algorithms of varying degrees of complexity that aim to recover man…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-03 Dominique Perraul-Joncas , Marina Meila