arXiv Computer Vision

Invariant Shape Analysis of Surfaces with Spherical Topology

arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Group-Invariant Statistics Determine Embedding Geometry: Harmonic Analysis of Representations from Bach to the Night Sky

The paper shows that the geometric patterns seen in language model embeddings—such as circles for months and saddle-shaped manifolds—arise from group-invariant statistics in word co‑occurrence data. By extending previous work on translation symmetry to arbitrary finite, compact, and homogeneous groups, the authors prove that embeddings correspond to matrix elements of the irreducible representations of the symmetry group. They validate this theory experimentally with the cyclic group <Z_{12}> for months, a dihedral group for musical chords, and a spherical‑harmonic embedding for celestial objects.

By Liam Storan, Andreas Tolias, Nina Miolane
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

$\text{GSF-}\chi$: Global Stereochemical Fields for Chiral Graph Transformers

The paper introduces GSF-χ, a graph transformer that incorporates global stereochemical fields to handle chiral molecules. Unlike traditional models that focus on a single atom, GSF-χ modulates all pairwise interactions using stereogenic units, producing a reflection‑even phase field and a handedness pseudoscalar that guide relative rotations in latent query–key blocks. The authors prove the operator’s even–odd decomposition and demonstrate that GSF-χ improves central‑ECD, axial Rotation, and Symbol metrics over strong baselines, while maintaining enantiomer‑pair consistency through a C₂ projection.

By Jiaqing Xie, Yuxin Wang, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

TokenMatch: 3D Mesh Correspondence Transformer with Curvature-Guided Tokenisation

TokenMatch is a transformer-based model that estimates 3D shape correspondences by adaptively tokenising meshes into curvature-guided patches. Trained only on the BeCoS partial-to-partial dataset, it generalises to full-shape matching without retraining, using self‑ and cross‑attention to learn patch‑ and point‑level relations. Evaluated on CP2P, PSMAL, BeCoS, FAUST, SCAPE, and SHREC'19, TokenMatch consistently outperforms existing methods in mean geodesic error and intersection‑over‑union while achieving sub‑second inference speeds.

By Adeela Islam, Zorah L\"ahner, Vittorio Murino, Vladislav Golyanik