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Hypergraph neural networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in modeling complex higher-order relationships. However, existing HGNNs often suffer from over-smoothing as the number of layers increases and lack effective control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mengyao Zhou , Zhiheng Zhou , Xiao Han , Xingqin Qi , Guanghui Wang , Guiying Yan

In recent years extensions of manifold Ricci curvature to discrete combinatorial objects such as graphs and hypergraphs (popularly called as "network shapes"), have found a plethora of applications in a wide spectrum of research areas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bhaskar DasGupta , Katie Kruzan

Describing networks geometrically through low-dimensional latent metric spaces has helped design efficient learning algorithms, unveil network symmetries and study dynamical network processes. However, latent space embeddings are limited to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-10 Adam Gosztolai , Alexis Arnaudon

The efficiency of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in dealing with sequential data has long been established. However, unlike deep, and convolution networks where we can attribute the recognition of a certain feature to every layer, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Horoi , Guillaume Lajoie , Guy Wolf

In this paper, we present a local geometric analysis to interpret how deep feedforward neural networks extract low-dimensional features from high-dimensional data. Our study shows that, in a local geometric region, the optimal weight in one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Tasmeen Zaman Ornee , Yin Sun

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in many graph-based tasks. Much work is dedicated to empowering GNNs with the adaptive locality ability, which enables measuring the importance of neighboring nodes to the target node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Haifeng Li , Jun Cao , Jiawei Zhu , Yu Liu , Qing Zhu , Guohua Wu

Deep generative models such as flow and diffusion models have proven to be effective in modeling high-dimensional and complex data types such as videos or proteins, and this has motivated their use in different data modalities, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ege Erdogan

We develop a general theory of flows in the space of Riemannian metrics induced by neural network gradient descent. This is motivated in part by recent advances in approximating Calabi-Yau metrics with neural networks and is enabled by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 James Halverson , Fabian Ruehle

We develop a theoretical framework that explains how discrete symbolic structures can emerge naturally from continuous neural network training dynamics. By lifting neural parameters to a measure space and modeling training as Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Peihao Wang , Zhangyang Wang

Graphs are ubiquitous in social networks and biochemistry, where Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are the state-of-the-art models for prediction. Graphs can be evolving and it is vital to formally model and understand how a trained GNN responds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yazheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie

Community detection in hypergraphs is both instrumental for functional module identification and intricate due to higher-order interactions among nodes. We define a hypergraph Ricci flow that directly operates on higher-order interactions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yulu Tian , Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang , Liang Zhao

We use the discrete Ollivier-Ricci graph curvature with Ricci flow to examine the intrinsic geometry of financial markets through the empirical correlation graph of the NASDAQ 100 index. Our main result is the development of a technique to…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-30 Bhargavi Srinivasan

This paper studies the relationship between a graph neural network (GNN) and a manifold neural network (MNN) when the graph is constructed from a set of points sampled from the manifold, thus encoding geometric information. We consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

Graph neural network (GNN) has been demonstrated powerful in modeling graph-structured data. However, despite many successful cases of applying GNNs to various graph classification and prediction tasks, whether the graph geometrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Dai Shi , Yi Guo , Zhiqi Shao , Junbin Gao

Non-local self-similarity is well-known to be an effective prior for the image denoising problem. However, little work has been done to incorporate it in convolutional neural networks, which surpass non-local model-based methods despite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular class of machine learning models whose major advantage is their ability to incorporate a sparse and discrete dependency structure between data points. Unfortunately, GNNs can only be used when such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Luca Franceschi , Mathias Niepert , Massimiliano Pontil , Xiao He

In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based framework for 3D shape registration, which overcomes the challenges of significant non-rigid deformation and partiality undergoing among input shapes, and, remarkably, requires no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhangquan Chen , Puhua Jiang , Mingze Sun , Ruqi Huang

Deep neural networks are widely used in various domains. However, the nature of computations at each layer of the deep networks is far from being well understood. Increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks is thus important.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Haiping Huang

Continual learning aims to efficiently learn from a non-stationary stream of data while avoiding forgetting the knowledge of old data. In many practical applications, data complies with non-Euclidean geometry. As such, the commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhi Gao , Chen Xu , Feng Li , Yunde Jia , Mehrtash Harandi , Yuwei Wu

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