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Modern sample points in many applications no longer comprise real vectors in a real vector space but sample points of much more complex structures, which may be represented as points in a space with a certain underlying geometric structure,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-07 Zhigang Yao , Bingjie Li , Wee Chin Tan

We establish dimension-independent estimates related to heat operators e^{tL} on manifolds. We first develop a very general contractivity result for Markov kernels which can be applied to diffusion semigroups. Second, we develop estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Brian C. Hall , Matthew Cecil

Bayesian optimization (BO) recently became popular in robotics to optimize control parameters and parametric policies in direct reinforcement learning due to its data efficiency and gradient-free approach. However, its performance may be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Noémie Jaquier , Leonel Rozo , Sylvain Calinon , Mathias Bürger

The purpose of this note is to investigate the concentration properties of spectral projectors on manifolds. This question has been intensively studied (by Logvinenko--Sereda, Nazarov, Jerison--Lebeau, Kovrizhkin,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Marc Rouveyrol

Operator eigenvalue problems play a critical role in various scientific fields and engineering applications, yet numerical methods are hindered by the curse of dimensionality. Recent deep learning methods provide an efficient approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hong Wang , Jiang Yixuan , Jie Wang , Xinyi Li , Jian Luo , Huanshuo Dong

High-dimensional data arises in numerous applications, and the rapidly developing field of geometric deep learning seeks to develop neural network architectures to analyze such data in non-Euclidean domains, such as graphs and manifolds.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Joyce Chew , Deanna Needell , Michael Perlmutter

The eigenfunctions of the Laplace Beltrami operator (Manifold Harmonics) define a function basis that can be used in spectral analysis on manifolds. In [21] the authors recast the problem as an orthogonality constrained optimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Martin Huska , Damiana Lazzaro , Serena Morigi

The inversion of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the computation of the Hodge decomposition of a tangential vector field on smooth surfaces arise as computational tasks in many areas of science, from computer graphics to machine learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard , Leslie Greengard

We introduce the logarithmic analogue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Ahlfors regular metric-measure spaces. This operator is intrinsically defined with spectral properties analogous to those of elliptic pseudo-differential operators on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Dimitris Michail Gerontogiannis , Bram Mesland

This work introduces the Wavelet-Laplace Neural Operator (WLNO), a novel neural operator that fuses Haar wavelet multi-scale spatial decomposition with the Laplace-domain pole-residue formulation of the Laplace Neural Operator (LNO). While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Muhammad Abid , Arth Sojitra , Omer San

We study Laplace-type operators on hybrid manifolds, i.e. on configurations consisting of closed two-dimensional manifolds and one-dimensional segments. Such an operator can be constructed by using the Laplace-Beltrami operators on each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 Konstantin Pankrashkin , Svetlana Roganova , Nader Yeganefar

Many natural shapes have most of their characterizing features concentrated over a few regions in space. For example, humans and animals have distinctive head shapes, while inorganic objects like chairs and airplanes are made of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Marco Pegoraro , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodolà

The manifold hypothesis posits that high-dimensional data typically resides on low-dimensional sub spaces. In this paper, we assume manifold hypothesis to investigate graph-based semi-supervised learning methods. In particular, we examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mary Chriselda Antony Oliver , Michael Roberts , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Matthew Thorpe

Learning reaction-diffusion equations has become increasingly important across scientific and engineering disciplines, including fluid dynamics, materials science, and biological systems. In this work, we propose the Laplacian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Jindong Wang , Wenrui Hao

Upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hypersurface bounding a domain in some ambient Riemannian manifold are given in terms of the isoperimetric ratio of the domain. These results are applied to the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Bruno Colbois , Ahmad El Soufi , Alexandre Girouard

Effective recognition of spatial patterns and learning their hierarchy is crucial in modern spatial data analysis. Volumetric data applications seek techniques ensuring invariance not only to shifts but also to pattern rotations. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Dmitrii Zhemchuzhnikov , Sergei Grudinin

Supervised learning in function spaces is an emerging area of machine learning research with applications to the prediction of complex physical systems such as fluid flows, solid mechanics, and climate modeling. By directly learning maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Jacob H. Seidman , Georgios Kissas , Paris Perdikaris , George J. Pappas

This paper presents the Harmonic Beltrami Signature Network (HBSN), a novel deep learning architecture for computing the Harmonic Beltrami Signature (HBS) from binary-like images. HBS is a shape representation that provides a one-to-one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chenran Lin , Lok Ming Lui

The Laplacian of a general trace polynomial function defined on the special orthogonal group $SO(N)$ is explicitly computed. An invariant flag of spaces generated by trace polynomials is constructed. The matrix of the Laplace-Beltrami…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Petre Birtea , Ioan Casu , Dan Comanescu

Spectral geometric methods have brought revolutionary changes to the field of geometry processing. Of particular interest is the study of the Laplacian spectrum as a compact, isometry and permutation-invariant representation of a shape.…