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In the field of data-driven 3D shape analysis and generation, the estimation of global topological features from localized representations such as point clouds, voxels, and neural implicit fields is a longstanding challenge. This paper…

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We introduce novel estimators for computing the curvature, tangent spaces, and dimension of data from manifolds, using tools from diffusion geometry. Although classical Riemannian geometry is a rich source of inspiration for geometric data…

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Learning a latent embedding to understand the underlying nature of data distribution is often formulated in Euclidean spaces with zero curvature. However, the success of the geometry constraints, posed in the embedding space, indicates that…

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Recent advancements in the discipline of quantum algorithms have displayed the importance of the geometry of quantum operators. Given this thrust, this paper develops a rigorous geometric framework to analyze how the Riemannian structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrew Vlasic

Experimental sciences have come to depend heavily on our ability to organize and interpret high-dimensional datasets. Natural laws, conservation principles, and inter-dependencies among observed variables yield geometric structure, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Akshat Kumar , Mohan Sarovar

Surface-based geodesic topology provides strong cues for object semantic analysis and geometric modeling. However, such connectivity information is lost in point clouds. Thus we introduce GeoNet, the first deep learning architecture trained…

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The curvature discussed in this paper is a rather far going generalization of the Riemannian sectional curvature. We define it for a wide class of optimal control problems: a unified framework including geometric structures such as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Andrei Agrachev , Davide Barilari , Luca Rizzi

Motivation: Despite its great success in various physical modeling, differential geometry (DG) has rarely been devised as a versatile tool for analyzing large, diverse and complex molecular and biomolecular datasets due to the limited…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-12 Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

High-dimensional big data appears in many research fields such as image recognition, biology and collaborative filtering. Often, the exploration of such data by classic algorithms is encountered with difficulties due to `curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Amit Bermanis , Aviv Rotbart , Moshe Salhov , Amir Averbuch

We introduce a novel formulation for geometry on discrete points. It is based on a universal differential calculus, which gives a geometric description of a discrete set by the algebra of functions. We expand this mathematical framework so…

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We present a novel physics-informed deep learning framework for solving steady-state incompressible flow on multiple sets of irregular geometries by incorporating two main elements: using a point-cloud based neural network to capture…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ali Kashefi , Tapan Mukerji

Understanding the principles of geophysical phenomena is an essential and challenging task. "Model-driven" approaches have supported the development of geophysics for a long time; however, such methods suffer from the curse of…

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We describe how to approximate the Riemann curvature tensor as well as sectional curvatures on possibly infinite-dimensional shape spaces that can be thought of as Riemannian manifolds. To this end, we extend the variational time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Alexander Effland , Behrend Heeren , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

Characterizing shapes of high-dimensional objects via Ricci curvatures plays a critical role in many research areas in mathematics and physics. However, even though several discretizations of Ricci curvatures for discrete combinatorial…

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In a world abundant with diverse data arising from complex acquisition techniques, there is a growing need for new data analysis methods. In this paper we focus on high-dimensional data that are organized into several hierarchical datasets.…

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Geometric frameworks for analyzing curves are common in applications as they focus on invariant features and provide visually satisfying solutions to standard problems such as computing invariant distances, averaging curves, or registering…

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We introduce diffusion geometry as a new framework for geometric and topological data analysis. Diffusion geometry uses the Bakry-Emery $\Gamma$-calculus of Markov diffusion operators to define objects from Riemannian geometry on a wide…

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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…

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3D generative modeling is accelerating as the technology allowing the capture of geometric data is developing. However, the acquired data is often inconsistent, resulting in unregistered meshes or point clouds. Many generative learning…

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