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Likelihood-based, or explicit, deep generative models use neural networks to construct flexible high-dimensional densities. This formulation directly contradicts the manifold hypothesis, which states that observed data lies on a…

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Manifold learning is a popular and quickly-growing subfield of machine learning based on the assumption that one's observed data lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a higher-dimensional space. This thesis presents a mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi

The Manifold Hypothesis is a widely accepted tenet of Machine Learning which asserts that nominally high-dimensional data are in fact concentrated near a low-dimensional manifold, embedded in high-dimensional space. This phenomenon is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Nick Whiteley , Annie Gray , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Supervised manifold learning methods learn data representations by preserving the geometric structure of data while enhancing the separation between data samples from different classes. In this work, we propose a theoretical study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Elif Vural , Christine Guillemot

Recent work has established clear links between the generalization performance of trained neural networks and the geometry of their loss landscape near the local minima to which they converge. This suggests that qualitative and quantitative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Stefan Horoi , Jessie Huang , Bastian Rieck , Guillaume Lajoie , Guy Wolf , Smita Krishnaswamy

A prevalent assumption regarding real-world data is that it lies on or close to a low-dimensional manifold. When deploying a neural network on data manifolds, the required size, i.e., the number of neurons of the network, heavily depends on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jiachen Yao , Mayank Goswami , Chao Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in various learning tasks, with successful applications in fields like molecular biology, transportation systems, and electrical grids. These fields naturally use graph data, benefiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Caio F. Deberaldini Netto , Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz

Semi-supervised learning algorithms typically construct a weighted graph of data points to represent a manifold. However, an explicit graph representation is problematic for neural networks operating in the online setting. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Alexander Genkin , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Dmitri Chklovskii

This article proposes an active learning method for high dimensional data, based on intrinsic data geometries learned through diffusion processes on graphs. Diffusion distances are used to parametrize low-dimensional structures on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy

Diffusion geometry is a manifold learning framework that uses random walks defined by Markov transition matrices to characterize the geometry of a dataset at multiple scales. We use diffusion geometry for neural representations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Atharva Khandait , Jan E. Gerken

The manifold hypothesis (real world data concentrates near low-dimensional manifolds) is suggested as the principle behind the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms in very high dimensional problems that are common in domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Aditya Chetan , Nipun Kwatra

The success of deep neural networks in image classification and learning can be partly attributed to the features they extract from images. It is often speculated about the properties of a low-dimensional manifold that models extract and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Neural ordinary differential equations (NODE) have garnered significant attention for their design of continuous-depth neural networks and the ability to learn data/feature dynamics. However, for high-dimensional systems, estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Muhao Guo , Haoran Li , Yang Weng

Learning mappings of data on manifolds is an important topic in contemporary machine learning, with applications in astrophysics, geophysics, statistical physics, medical diagnosis, biochemistry, 3D object analysis. This paper studies the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Guido Montúfar , Yu Guang Wang

Recent work on mode connectivity in the loss landscape of deep neural networks has demonstrated that the locus of (sub-)optimal weight vectors lies on continuous paths. In this work, we train a neural network that serves as a hypernetwork,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-09 Lior Deutsch , Erik Nijkamp , Yu Yang

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Manifold learning is a hot research topic in the field of computer science and has many applications in the real world. A main drawback of manifold learning methods is, however, that there is no explicit mappings from the input data…

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This research uses deep learning to estimate the topology of manifolds represented by sparse, unordered point cloud scenes in 3D. A new labelled dataset was synthesised to train neural networks and evaluate their ability to estimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Dylan Peek , Matt P. Skerritt , Stephan Chalup

How can we design neural networks that allow for stable universal approximation of maps between topologically interesting manifolds? The answer is with a coordinate projection. Neural networks based on topological data analysis (TDA) use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Michael Puthawala , Matti Lassas , Ivan Dokmanic , Pekka Pankka , Maarten de Hoop

The subject of deep learning has recently attracted users of machine learning from various disciplines, including: medical diagnosis and bioinformatics, financial market analysis and online advertisement, speech and handwriting recognition,…

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