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Recently, topological deep learning (TDL), which integrates algebraic topology with deep neural networks, has achieved tremendous success in processing point-cloud data, emerging as a promising paradigm in data science. However, TDL has not…

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Neural representations of 3D data have been widely adopted across various applications, particularly in recent work leveraging coordinate-based networks to model scalar or vector fields. However, these approaches face inherent challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Biao Zhang , Jing Ren , Peter Wonka

Natural Gradient Descent (NGD) is a second-order neural network training that preconditions the gradient descent with the inverse of the Fisher Information Matrix (FIM). Although NGD provides an efficient preconditioner, it is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Tran Van Sang , Mhd Irvan , Rie Shigetomi Yamaguchi , Toshiyuki Nakata

Natural gradient descent (NGD) is a powerful optimization technique for machine learning, but the computational complexity of the inverse Fisher information matrix limits its application in training deep neural networks. To overcome this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Weihua Liu , Said Boumaraf , Jianwu Li , Chaochao Lin , Xiabi Liu , Lijuan Niu , Naoufel Werghi

Designing mechanically efficient geometry for architectural structures like shells, towers, and bridges, is an expensive iterative process. Existing techniques for solving such inverse problems rely on traditional optimization methods,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Rafael Pastrana , Eder Medina , Isabel M. de Oliveira , Sigrid Adriaenssens , Ryan P. Adams

We introduce a new class of deep neural networks (DNNs) with multilayered tree-like architectures. The architectures are codified using numbers from the ring of integers of non-Archimdean local fields. These rings have a natural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

Similarity measures are widely used to interpret the representational geometries used by neural networks to solve tasks. Yet, because existing methods compare the extrinsic geometry of representations in state space, rather than their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 N Alex Cayco-Gajic , Arthur Pellegrino

We introduce SDM-NET, a deep generative neural network which produces structured deformable meshes. Specifically, the network is trained to generate a spatial arrangement of closed, deformable mesh parts, which respect the global part…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai , Hao Zhang

Neural networks with a large number of parameters often do not overfit, owing to implicit regularization that favors \lq good\rq{} networks. Other related and puzzling phenomena include properties of flat minima, saddle-to-saddle dynamics,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Joachim Bona-Pellissier , François Malgouyres , François Bachoc

We introduce a new unsupervised representation learning and visualization using deep convolutional networks and self organizing maps called Deep Neural Maps (DNM). DNM jointly learns an embedding of the input data and a mapping from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Mehran Pesteie , Purang Abolmaesumi , Robert Rohling

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in modeling graph-structured data, while Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer high energy efficiency through sparse, event-driven computation. However, existing spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bowen Zhang , Genan Dai , Hu Huang , Long Lan

In this paper, we propose a geometric neural network with edge-aware refinement (GeoNet++) to jointly predict both depth and surface normal maps from a single image. Building on top of two-stream CNNs, GeoNet++ captures the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaojuan Qi , Zhengzhe Liu , Renjie Liao , Philip H. S. Torr , Raquel Urtasun , Jiaya Jia

Traditional methods for high-dimensional diffeomorphic mapping often struggle with the curse of dimensionality. We propose a mesh-free learning framework designed for $n$-dimensional mapping problems, seamlessly combining variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhiwen Li , Cheuk Hin Ho , Lok Ming Lui

Normalizing flows are a powerful technique for obtaining reparameterizable samples from complex multimodal distributions. Unfortunately current approaches fall short when the underlying space has a non trivial topology, and are only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-12 Luca Falorsi , Patrick Forré

Geometry and topology of decision regions are closely related with classification performance and robustness against adversarial attacks. In this paper, we use differential geometry to theoretically explore the geometrical and topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Bo Liu , Mengya Shen

We propose a class of trainable deep learning-based geometries called Neural Spacetimes (NSTs), which can universally represent nodes in weighted directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) as events in a spacetime manifold. While most works in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Anastasis Kratsios , Marc T. Law , Xiaowen Dong , Michael Bronstein

We propose a nonlinear manifold learning technique based on deep convolutional autoencoders that is appropriate for model order reduction of physical systems in complex geometries. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 John Tencer , Kevin Potter

The paper uses statistical and differential geometric motivation to acquire prior information about the learning capability of an artificial neural network on a given dataset. The paper considers a broad class of neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ankan Dutta , Arnab Rakshit

We propose a novel cascaded framework, namely deep deformation network (DDN), for localizing landmarks in non-rigid objects. The hallmarks of DDN are its incorporation of geometric constraints within a convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiang Yu , Feng Zhou , Manmohan Chandraker

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang