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Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric spaces. Such a model is defined by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points with probability that depends on their distance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hanlin Yu , Berfin Inal , Georgios Arvanitidis , Soren Hauberg , Francesco Locatello , Marco Fumero

It is well-known that the class of piecewise smooth curves together with a smooth Riemannian metric induces a metric space structure on a manifold. However, little is known about the minimal regularity needed to analyze curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Annegret Y. Burtscher

Stochastic generative models enable us to capture the geometric structure of a data manifold lying in a high dimensional space through a Riemannian metric in the latent space. However, its practical use is rather limited mainly due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-10 Georgios Arvanitidis , Bogdan Georgiev , Bernhard Schölkopf

Learning probabilistic models that can estimate the density of a given set of samples, and generate samples from that density, is one of the fundamental challenges in unsupervised machine learning. We introduce a new generative model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Siavash A. Bigdeli , Geng Lin , Tiziano Portenier , L. Andrea Dunbar , Matthias Zwicker

In recent years there has been increased interest in understanding the interplay between deep generative models (DGMs) and the manifold hypothesis. Research in this area focuses on understanding the reasons why commonly-used DGMs succeed or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Brendan Leigh Ross , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Anthony L. Caterini , Jesse C. Cresswell

Recently there has been increased interest in fitting generative graph models to real-world networks. In particular, Bl\"asius et al. have proposed a framework for systematic evaluation of the expressivity of random graph models. We extend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Benjamin Dayan , Marc Kaufmann , Ulysse Schaller

Generative Adversarial Networks have shown remarkable success in learning a distribution that faithfully recovers a reference distribution in its entirety. However, in some cases, we may want to only learn some aspects (e.g., cluster or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Charlotte Bunne , David Alvarez-Melis , Andreas Krause , Stefanie Jegelka

This paper proposes a generalized framework with joint normalization which learns lower-dimensional subspaces with maximum discriminative power by making use of the Riemannian geometry. In particular, we model the similarity/dissimilarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Tianci Liu , Zelin Shi , Yunpeng Liu

This paper presents a novel paradigm in simulation-based engineering sciences by introducing a new framework called Generative Parametric Design (GPD). The GPD framework enables the generation of new designs along with their corresponding…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohammed El Fallaki Idrissi , Jad Mounayer , Sebastian Rodriguez , Fodil Meraghni , Francisco Chinesta

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

Most models of generative AI for images assume that images are inherently low-dimensional objects embedded within a high-dimensional space. Additionally, it is often implicitly assumed that thematic image datasets form smooth or piecewise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Leah Bar , Liron Mor Yosef , Shai Zucker , Neta Shoham , Inbar Seroussi , Nir Sochen

Generative adversarial network (GAN) is widely used for generalized and robust learning on graph data. However, for non-Euclidean graph data, the existing GAN-based graph representation methods generate negative samples by random walk or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jianxin Li , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Cheng Ji , Jiajun Tan , Jia Wu , Hao Peng

Graphs are ubiquitous, and learning on graphs has become a cornerstone in artificial intelligence and data mining communities. Unlike pixel grids in images or sequential structures in language, graphs exhibit a typical non-Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Li Sun , Qiqi Wan , Suyang Zhou , Zhenhao Huang , Philip S. Yu

Neural networks are playing a crucial role in everyday life, with the most modern generative models able to achieve impressive results. Nonetheless, their functioning is still not very clear, and several strategies have been adopted to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Alessandro Benfenati , Alessio Marta

Generative networks have experienced great empirical successes in distribution learning. Many existing experiments have demonstrated that generative networks can generate high-dimensional complex data from a low-dimensional easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Biraj Dahal , Alex Havrilla , Minshuo Chen , Tuo Zhao , Wenjing Liao

This paper introduces a novel generative model for discrete distributions based on continuous normalizing flows on the submanifold of factorizing discrete measures. Integration of the flow gradually assigns categories and avoids issues of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Bastian Boll , Daniel Gonzalez-Alvarado , Christoph Schnörr

We investigate statistical properties of a likelihood approach to nonparametric estimation of a singular distribution using deep generative models. More specifically, a deep generative model is used to model high-dimensional data that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-29 Minwoo Chae , Dongha Kim , Yongdai Kim , Lizhen Lin

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pawel Gajer , Jacques Ravel

Graphs are fundamental data structures which concisely capture the relational structure in many important real-world domains, such as knowledge graphs, physical and social interactions, language, and chemistry. Here we introduce a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yujia Li , Oriol Vinyals , Chris Dyer , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia