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Given data, deep generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative adversarial networks (GAN), train a lower dimensional latent representation of the data space. The linear Euclidean geometry of data space pulls back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Line Kuhnel , Tom Fletcher , Sarang Joshi , Stefan Sommer

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis. By explicitly modeling the geometric structure of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Willem Diepeveen , Deanna Needell

Dimensionality reduction (DR) and manifold learning (ManL) have been applied extensively in many machine learning tasks, including signal processing, speech recognition, and neuroinformatics. However, the understanding of whether DR and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Dai Shi , Andi Han , Yi Guo , Junbin Gao

Manifold learning seeks a low dimensional representation that faithfully captures the essence of data. Current methods can successfully learn such representations, but do not provide a meaningful set of operations that are associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 David Eklund , Søren Hauberg

In machine learning, data is usually represented in a (flat) Euclidean space where distances between points are along straight lines. Researchers have recently considered more exotic (non-Euclidean) Riemannian manifolds such as hyperbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Marc T. Law , Jos Stam

The low-dimensional manifold hypothesis posits that the data found in many applications, such as those involving natural images, lie (approximately) on low-dimensional manifolds embedded in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Juncai He , Richard Tsai , Rachel Ward

In this work, we develop new generalization bounds for neural networks trained on data supported on Riemannian manifolds. Existing generalization theories often rely on complexity measures derived from Euclidean geometry, which fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Krisanu Sarkar

Over the past few years, symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices have been receiving considerable attention from computer vision community. Though various distance measures have been proposed in the past for comparing SPD matrices, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Raviteja Vemulapalli , David W. Jacobs

We propose a solution to the problem of estimating a Riemannian metric associated with a given differentiable manifold. The metric learning problem is based on minimizing the relative volume of a given set of points. We derive the details…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Guy Lebanon

Many techniques in machine learning attempt explicitly or implicitly to infer a low-dimensional manifold structure of an underlying physical phenomenon from measurements without an explicit model of the phenomenon or the measurement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-04 Roy R. Lederman , Bogdan Toader

In this paper, we develop a new classification method for manifold-valued data in the framework of probabilistic learning vector quantization. In many classification scenarios, the data can be naturally represented by symmetric positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fengzhen Tang , Haifeng Feng , Peter Tino , Bailu Si , Daxiong Ji

High-dimensional data with intrinsic low-dimensional structure is ubiquitous in machine learning and data science. While various approaches allow one to learn a data manifold with a Riemannian structure from finite samples, performing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Willem Diepeveen , Melanie Weber

This report concerns the problem of dimensionality reduction through information geometric methods on statistical manifolds. While there has been considerable work recently presented regarding dimensionality reduction for the purposes of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-09-30 Kevin M. Carter , Raviv Raich , Alfred O. Hero

Riemannian metric learning is an emerging field in machine learning, unlocking new ways to encode complex data structures beyond traditional distance metric learning. While classical approaches rely on global distances in Euclidean space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Samuel Gruffaz , Josua Sassen

We introduce an estimator for distances in a compact Riemannian manifold based on graph Laplacian estimates of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. We upper bound the error in the estimate of manifold distances, or more precisely an estimate of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Dena Marie Asta

A fundamental problem in manifold learning is to approximate a functional relationship in a data chosen randomly from a probability distribution supported on a low dimensional sub-manifold of a high dimensional ambient Euclidean space. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 H. N. Mhaskar , Ryan O'Dowd

A common belief in high-dimensional data analysis is that data are concentrated on a low-dimensional manifold. This motivates simultaneous dimension reduction and regression on manifolds. We provide an algorithm for learning gradients on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-02-24 Sayan Mukherjee , Qiang Wu , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Riemannian manifolds have been widely employed for video representations in visual classification tasks including video-based face recognition. The success mainly derives from learning a discriminant Riemannian metric which encodes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Zhiwu Huang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Luc Van Gool , Xilin Chen

This paper aims at building the theoretical foundations for manifold learning algorithms in the space of absolutely continuous probability measures $\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{a.c.}}(\Omega)$ with $\Omega$ a compact and convex subset of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-31 Keaton Hamm , Caroline Moosmüller , Bernhard Schmitzer , Matthew Thorpe

Manifold Learning is a class of algorithms seeking a low-dimensional non-linear representation of high-dimensional data. Thus manifold learning algorithms are, at least in theory, most applicable to high-dimensional data and sample sizes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-10 James McQueen , Marina Meila , Jacob VanderPlas , Zhongyue Zhang