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Manifolds occur naturally as configuration spaces of robotic systems. They provide global descriptions of local coordinate systems that are common tools in expressing positions of robots. The purpose of this survey is threefold. Firstly, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Stephan Mescher

Graph foundation models represent a transformative paradigm for learning transferable representations across diverse graph domains. Recent methods leverage large language models to unify graph and text modalities into a shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Heng Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu , Yaomin Shen , Haochen You , Zijian Zhang , Yilei Yuan , Jin Huang

Geometric number systems, obtained by extending the real number system to include new anticommuting square roots of +1 and -1, provide a royal road to higher mathematics by largely sidestepping the tedious languages of tensor analysis and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Garret Sobczyk

Geodesics become an essential element of the geometry of a semi-Riemannian manifold. In fact, their differences and similarities with the (positive definite) Riemannian case, constitute the first step to understand semi-Riemannian Geometry.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Anna Maria Candela , Miguel Sánchez

As science and engineering have become increasingly data-driven, the role of optimization has expanded to touch almost every stage of the data analysis pipeline, from signal and data acquisition to modeling and prediction. The optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yuqian Zhang , Qing Qu , John Wright

The present paper mainly presents, for example, explicit classifications of compact smooth manifolds having non-empty boundaries and simple structures where the dimensions are general. Studies of this type is fundamental and important. They…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Naoki Kitazawa

The spatial metaphor of the network along with its accompanying abstractions, such as flow, movement, and connectivity, have been central themes throughout the relational turn in human geography. However, to date networks in geography have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Steven M. Radil , Olivier J. Walther

Network models with latent geometry have been used successfully in many applications in network science and other disciplines, yet it is usually impossible to tell if a given real network is geometric, meaning if it is a typical element in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-23 Dmitri Krioukov

Robust 3D representation learning forms the perceptual foundation of spatial intelligence, enabling downstream tasks in scene understanding and embodied AI. However, learning such representations directly from unposed multi-view images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bo Zhou , Qiuxia Lai , Zeren Sun , Xiangbo Shu , Yazhou Yao , Wenguan Wang

Graphs are ubiquitous, and learning on graphs has become a cornerstone in artificial intelligence and data mining communities. Unlike pixel grids in images or sequential structures in language, graphs exhibit a typical non-Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Li Sun , Qiqi Wan , Suyang Zhou , Zhenhao Huang , Philip S. Yu

How to balance training accuracy and adversarial robustness has become a challenge since the birth of deep learning. Here, we introduce a geometry-aware deep learning framework that leverages layer-wise local training to sculpt the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yixiong Ren , Wenkang Du , Jianhui Zhou , Haiping Huang

We provide a comprehensive study of the convergence of the forward-backward algorithm under suitable geometric conditions, such as conditioning or {\L}ojasiewicz properties. These geometrical notions are usually local by nature, and may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Guillaume Garrigos , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Statistical inference for spatial processes from partially realized or scattered data has seen voluminous developments in diverse areas ranging from environmental sciences to business and economics. Inference on the associated rates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Didong Li , Aritra Halder , Sudipto Banerjee

A common model for social networks are Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRGs), in which vertices draw a random position in some latent geometric space, and the probability of two vertices forming an edge depends on their geometric…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Marc Kaufmann , Johannes Lengler , Ulysse Schaller , Konstantin Sturm

The definition of a reference frame in General Relativity is achieved through the construction of a congruence of time-like world-lines. In this framework, splitting techniques enable us to express physical phenomena in analogy with Special…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Learning faithful graph representations as sets of vertex embeddings has become a fundamental intermediary step in a wide range of machine learning applications. The quality of the embeddings is usually determined by how well the geometry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Federico López , Beatrice Pozzetti , Steve Trettel , Anna Wienhard

Continual learning systems operating in fixed-dimensional spaces face a fundamental geometric barrier: the flat manifold problem. When experience is represented as a linear trajectory in Euclidean space, the geodesic distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xin Li

Geographical research was successfully quantified through the quantitative revolution of geography. However, the succeeding theorization of geography encountered insurmountable difficulties. The largest obstacle of geography's theorization…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-29 Yanguang Chen

A smooth map between smooth manifolds is called a special generic map if it has only definite fold points as its singularities. In this paper, we give conditions for a special generic map into the 3-dimensional Euclidean space to be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Masayuki Nishioka

Intermediate feature representations represent the backbone for the expressivity and adaptability of deep neural networks. However, their geometric structure remains poorly understood. In this submission, we provide indirect insights into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Elias B. Krey , Nils Neukirch , Nils Strodthoff