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Recent work in Topological Deep Learning (TDL) seeks to generalize graph learning's preeminent $message \ passing$ paradigm to more complex relational structures: simplicial complexes, cell complexes, hypergraphs, and combinations thereof.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jacob Hume , Pietro Liò

Sheaf cohomology or, more generally, higher direct images of coherent sheaves along proper morphisms are central to modern algebraic geometry. However, the computation of these objects is a non-trivial and expensive task which easily…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Matthias Zach

Sampling theory has traditionally drawn tools from functional and complex analysis. Past successes, such as the Shannon-Nyquist theorem and recent advances in frame theory, have relied heavily on the application of geometry and analysis.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-05 Michael Robinson

An abstract theory of ultradifferentiable sheafs is developed. Moreover, various applications to the theory of linear partial differential equations, differential geometry and, in particular, CR geometry are discussed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Stefan Fürdös

In this paper we explore the link between the theory of sheaves on graphs and noncommutative geometry showing that many concepts and constructions in the latter can be generalized and enhanced using methods coming from the former. They…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Rita Fioresi , Angelica Simonetti , Ferdinando Zanchetta

Modern machine learning algorithms have been adopted in a range of signal-processing applications spanning computer vision, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. Many relevant problems involve subspace-structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jiayao Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Robert W. Heath , Kaibin Huang

Deep learning is transforming many areas in science, and it has great potential in modeling molecular systems. However, unlike the mature deployment of deep learning in computer vision and natural language processing, its development in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Jun Zhang , Yao-Kun Lei , Zhen Zhang , Junhan Chang , Maodong Li , Xu Han , Lijiang Yang , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao

Motivated by efforts to incorporate sheaves into networking, we seek to reinterpret pathfinding algorithms in terms of cellular sheaves, using Dijkstra's algorithm as an example. We construct sheaves on a graph with distinguished source and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Michael Moy , Robert Cardona , Robert Green , Jacob Cleveland , Alan Hylton , Robert Short

Graph convolutional networks are a popular class of deep neural network algorithms which have shown success in a number of relational learning tasks. Despite their success, graph convolutional networks exhibit a number of peculiar features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Thomas Gebhart

This book collects the lectures about graph theory and its applications which were given to students of mathematical departments of Moscow State University and Peking University. Graph theory is a very wide field with a lot of applications…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mikhail Tuzhilin , Dong Zhang

Many inference tasks on knowledge graphs, including relation prediction, operate on knowledge graph embeddings -- vector representations of the vertices (entities) and edges (relations) that preserve task-relevant structure encoded within…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 John Cobb , Thomas Gebhart

This paper concerns a theoretical approach that combines topological data analysis (TDA) and sheaf theory. Topological data analysis, a rising field in mathematics and computer science, concerns the shape of the data and has been proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Chuan-Shen Hu , Yu-Min Chung

Although statistical learning theory provides a robust framework to understand supervised learning, many theoretical aspects of deep learning remain unclear, in particular how different architectures may lead to inductive bias when trained…

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Predictive coding (PC) replaces global backpropagation with local optimization over weights and activations. We show that linear PC networks admit a natural formulation as cellular sheaves: the sheaf coboundary maps activations to edge-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jeffrey Seely

Machine Learning algorithms are ubiquitous in key decision-making contexts such as justice, healthcare and finance, which has spawned a great demand for fairness in these procedures. However, the theoretical properties of such models in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-14 Arturo Pérez-Peralta , Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rosa E. Lillo

Machine Learning algorithms have had a profound impact on the field of computer science over the past few decades. These algorithms performance is greatly influenced by the representations that are derived from the data in the learning…

Informal lecture notes with examples on sheaf theory and the derived category of sheaves; sheaves and Morse theory; perverse sheaves, and some applications to representation theory. Added Oct 2021: cellular perverse sheaves. Proofs are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Mark Goresky

The unprecedented pace of machine learning research has lead to incredible advances, but also poses hard challenges. At present, the field lacks strong theoretical underpinnings, and many important achievements stem from ad hoc design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Francesco Riccardo Crescenzi

Combinatorial and topological structures, such as graphs, simplicial complexes, and cell complexes, form the foundation of geometric and topological deep learning (GDL and TDL) architectures. These models aggregate signals over such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chuan-Shen Hu

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige