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This article focuses on a combinatorial structure specific to triangulated plane graphs with quadrangular outer face and no separating triangle, which are called irreducible triangulations. The structure has been introduced by Xin He under…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-07 Eric Fusy

We present an algorithm taking a Kirby diagram of a closed oriented $4$-manifold to a trisection diagram of the same manifold. This algorithm provides us with a large number of examples for trisection diagrams of closed oriented…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Willi Kepplinger

Known algorithms for manipulating octagons do not preserve their sparsity, leading typically to quadratic or cubic time and space complexities even if no relation among variables is known when they are all bounded. In this paper, we present…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Jacques-Henri Jourdan

With advances in technology, there has been growing interest in developing effective mapping methods for 3-dimensional objects in recent years. Volumetric parameterization for 3D solid manifolds plays an important role in processing 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhiyuan Lyu , Qiguang Chen , Gary P. T. Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Real 3-manifold triangulations can be uniquely represented by isomorphism signatures. Databases of these isomorphism signatures are generated for a variety of 3-manifolds and knot complements, using SnapPy and Regina, then these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Francesco Costantino , Yang-Hui He , Elli Heyes , Edward Hirst

Graph sparsification is a powerful tool to approximate an arbitrary graph and has been used in machine learning over homogeneous graphs. In heterogeneous graphs such as knowledge graphs, however, sparsification has not been systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Chandan Chunduru , Chun Jiang Zhu , Blake Gains , Jinbo Bi

Network alignment has extensive applications in comparative interactomics. Traditional approaches aim to simultaneously maximize the number of conserved edges and the underlying similarity of aligned entities. We propose a novel formulation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Shahin Mohammadi , David Gleich , Tamara Kolda , Ananth Grama

We present a simple combinatorial method to encode 3-dimensional manifolds, based on their Heegaard diagrams. The notion of a Gauss diagram of a 3-manifold is introduced. We check the conditions for a Gauss diagram to represent a closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anna Klebanov

3D printing of surfaces has become an established method for prototyping and visualisation. However, surfaces often contain certain degenerations, such as self-intersecting faces or non-manifold parts, which pose problems in obtaining a 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Christian Amend , Tom Goertzen

According to Mostow's celebrated rigidity theorem, the geometry of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds is already determined by their topology. In particular, the volume of such manifolds is a topological invariant and, as such, has been…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Kristóf Huszár

Sparse autoencoders are a standard tool for uncovering interpretable latent representations in neural networks. Yet, their interpretation depends on the inputs, making their isolated study incomplete. Polynomials offer a solution; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Thomas Dooms , Ward Gauderis

A census is presented of all closed non-orientable 3-manifold triangulations formed from at most seven tetrahedra satisfying the additional constraints of minimality and P^2-irreducibility. The eight different 3-manifolds represented by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-12-21 Benjamin A. Burton

We study efficient and reliable methods of capturing and sparsely representing anisotropic structures in 3D data. As a model class for multidimensional data with anisotropic features, we introduce generalized three-dimensional cartoon-like…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Gitta Kutyniok , Jakob Lemvig , Wang-Q Lim

We describe a new algorithm to compute the geometric intersection number between two curves, given as edge vectors on an ideal triangulation. Most importantly, this algorithm runs in polynomial time in the bit-size of the two edge vectors.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

We describe a simple geometric transformation of triangles which leads to an efficient and effective algorithm to smooth triangle and tetrahedral meshes. Our focus lies on the convergence properties of this algorithm: we prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

The search for universality in random triangulations of manifolds, like those featuring in (Euclidean) Dynamical Triangulations, is central to the random geometry approach to quantum gravity. In case of the 3-sphere, or any other manifold…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Timothy Budd , Luca Lionni

Following work of Jaco and Rubinstein (2006), which (non-constructively) proved that any 3-manifold admits a one-vertex layered triangulation, we present an algorithm, with implementation using Regina, that uses a combinatorial presentation…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Alexander He , James Morgan , Em K. Thompson

We investigate the problem of estimating the 3D shape of an object defined by a set of 3D landmarks, given their 2D correspondences in a single image. A successful approach to alleviating the reconstruction ambiguity is the 3D deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Spyridon Leonardos , Kostas Daniilidis

Gradient descent optimizations and backpropagation are the most common methods for training neural networks, but they are computationally expensive for real time applications, need high memory resources, and are difficult to converge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Seyyed Mostafa Mousavi Janbeh Sarayi , Mansour Nikkhah Bahrami

Hypergraphs, which use hyperedges to capture groupwise interactions among different entities, have gained increasing attention recently for their versatility in effectively modeling real-world networks. In this paper, we study the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Haozhe Yin , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Ruijia Wu , Xuemin Lin