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We propose a novel framework, called Markov-Lipschitz deep learning (MLDL), to tackle geometric deterioration caused by collapse, twisting, or crossing in vector-based neural network transformations for manifold-based representation…

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This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

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Triangulated meshes have become ubiquitous discrete-surface representations. In this paper we address the problem of how to maintain the manifold properties of a surface while it undergoes strong deformations that may cause topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Andrei Zaharescu , Edmond Boyer , Radu Horaud

Neural multivariate regression underpins a wide range of domains, including control, robotics, and finance, yet the geometry of its learned representations remains poorly characterized. While neural collapse has been shown to benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 George Andriopoulos , Zixuan Dong , Bimarsha Adhikari , Keith Ross

A persistent paradox in continual learning (CL) is that neural networks often retain linearly separable representations of past tasks even when their output predictions fail. We formalize this distinction as the gap between deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Giulia Lanzillotta , Damiano Meier , Thomas Hofmann

Self-supervised representation learning is central to modern machine learning because it extracts structured latent features from unlabeled data and enables robust transfer across tasks and domains. However, it can suffer from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-14 Louie Hong Yao , Yuhao Li , Shengchao Liu

Geometric regularity, which leverages data symmetry, has been successfully incorporated into deep learning architectures such as CNNs, RNNs, GNNs, and Transformers. While this concept has been widely applied in robotics to address the curse…

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When training overparameterized deep networks for classification tasks, it has been widely observed that the learned features exhibit a so-called "neural collapse" phenomenon. More specifically, for the output features of the penultimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Can Yaras , Peng Wang , Zhihui Zhu , Laura Balzano , Qing Qu

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

High-resolution imagery is essential for accurate 3D reconstruction, as many geometric details only emerge at fine spatial scales. Recent feed-forward approaches, such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tianrun Chen , Yuanqi Hu , Yidong Han , Hanjie Xu , Deyi Ji , Qi Zhu , Chunan Yu , Xin Zhang , Cheng Chen , Chaotao Ding , Ying Zang , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lanyun Zhu

To achieve near-zero training error in a classification problem, the layers of a feed-forward network have to disentangle the manifolds of data points with different labels, to facilitate the discrimination. However, excessive class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Simone Ciceri , Lorenzo Cassani , Matteo Osella , Pietro Rotondo , Filippo Valle , Marco Gherardi

This paper introduces a novel optimization framework that fundamentally integrates the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle into the training dynamics of deep neural networks. Moving beyond its conventional role as a model selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ming Lei , Shufan Wu , Christophe Baehr

Collision detection is essential to virtually all robotics applications. However, traditional geometric collision detection methods generally require pre-existing workspace geometry representations; thus, they are unable to infer the…

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Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to achieve phenomenal success in many domains, and yet their inner mechanisms are not well understood. In this paper, we investigate the curvature of image manifolds, i.e., the manifold deviation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ilya Kaufman , Omri Azencot

When solving inverse problems in geophysical imaging, deep generative models (DGMs) may be used to enforce the solution to display highly structured spatial patterns which are supported by independent information (e.g. the geological…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jorge Lopez-Alvis , Eric Laloy , Frédéric Nguyen , Thomas Hermans

Disobeying the classical wisdom of statistical learning theory, modern deep neural networks generalize well even though they typically contain millions of parameters. Recently, it has been shown that the trajectories of iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Tolga Birdal , Aaron Lou , Leonidas Guibas , Umut Şimşekli

Relative Geologic Time (RGT) estimation from seismic data is a cornerstone of subsurface structural modeling, depositional evolution analysis, and reservoir characterization, supporting horizon correlation and depositional system…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yimin Dou , Xinming Wu , Hui Gao , Zhengfa Bi

Manifold learning (ML) aims to seek low-dimensional embedding from high-dimensional data. The problem is challenging on real-world datasets, especially with under-sampling data, and we find that previous methods perform poorly in this case.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zelin Zang , Siyuan Li , Di Wu , Ge Wang , Lei Shang , Baigui Sun , Hao Li , Stan Z. Li

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

Deep Neural Networks achieve state-of-the-art results in many different problem settings by exploiting vast amounts of training data. However, collecting, storing and - in the case of supervised learning - labelling the data is expensive…

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