arXiv Machine Learning

Geometry-Aware Simplicial Message Passing

The paper introduces the Geometric Simplicial Weisfeiler–Lehman (GSWL) test, which extends the classic WL and SWL tests by incorporating vertex coordinates into color refinement for geometric simplicial complexes. It demonstrates that geometry‑aware simplicial message passing schemes are bounded by GSWL in expressivity and can match GSWL’s discriminating power on any fixed finite family of complexes. By combining GSWL with the Euler Characteristic Transform, the authors provide a complete invariant and an approximation framework, validated through experiments that reveal a clear hierarchy from combinatorial to geometry‑aware models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

NervePool: A Simplicial Pooling Layer

arXiv:2305. 06315v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For deep learning problems on graph-structured data, pooling layers are important for down sampling, reducing computational cost, and to minimize overfitting.

By Sarah McGuire Scullen, Ernst R\"oell, Elizabeth Munch, Bastian Rieck, Matthew Hirn
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

MeshOctave generates meshes via cascading resolution transitions

arXiv:2609.38985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating compact, artist-style meshes with explicit topology typically relies on autoregressive models which incur prohibitive sequential per-token c...

By Junkai Lin, Tianhao Zhao, Hang Long, Huipeng Guo, Jielei Zhang, Youjia Zhang, Jiale Xu, Wenbing Li, Rendong Liang, Jozef Hladk\'y, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner, Yuanming Hu, Wei Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

HOPSE: Scalable Higher-Order Positional and Structural Encoder for Combinatorial Representations

arXiv:2505. 15405v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven highly effective at modeling relational data, pairwise connections cannot fully capture multi-way relationships naturally present in complex real-world systems.

By Guillermo Bern\'ardez, Marco Montagna, Louis Van Langendonck, Martin Carrasco, Amirreza Akbari, Louisa Cornelis, Mathilde Papillon, Pere Barlet-Ros, Nina Miolane, Lev Telyatnikov
arXiv AI
Sep 16

HoloAegis: Frozen Representation, Topological Inference --- Minimally Parametric Safety Manifolds and Their Capability Boundaries for LLM Guardrails

HoloAegis is a minimally parametric topological inference framework that uses frozen representations to map text onto the unit sphere and makes decisions via Gibbs‑Boltzmann free‑energy differences over pre‑computed anchor centroids. On a frozen three‑benchmark protocol, it matches WildGuard‑7B on toxicity, outperforms it on harmful behaviors, but underperforms on oversafety detection, while ShieldGemma‑2B fails on indirect harms. The study demonstrates that geometric guardrails can substitute for LLM judges in some cases and must defer to them in others, with anchor banks reducing score variance and boundary displacement.

By Tak Ho Alex Li, Kaijie Liu, Lik-Hang Lee, Kin Chung Ho, Ping Shum, Michael K. Ng
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 2

TriFlow: Generating Artist-Like 3D Mesh Topology via Nearest-Vertex Vector Fields

TriFlow introduces a generative method for creating compact 3D meshes with artist‑like triangle topology directly from input geometry such as signed distance fields. It represents mesh topology as a nearest‑vertex vector field (NVF) over the surface, trains a latent flow‑matching model to synthesize this field, and then clusters surface regions to guide a constrained quadric error metric simplification. The resulting meshes closely match the input geometry while exhibiting structured, artist‑like connectivity, achieving 90% lower Chamfer Distance and an 8× speedup over state‑of‑the‑art learning‑based approaches.

By Haoxuan Li, Ziya Erko\c{c}, Daniele Sirigatti, Vladislav Rosov, Lei Li, Angela Dai, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner