arXiv Machine Learning

Rao-Blackwellized Score Matching on Manifolds

arXiv:2605. 25567v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study denoising score matching (DSM) when data are drawn from an embedded manifold $M \subset \mathbb{R}^D$.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

The Lie We Tell: Correcting the Euclidean Fallacy in Vision Language Action Policies via Score Matching on Tangent Space

arXiv:2606. 01847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action policies achieve remarkable success in robotic manipulation, yet commit a fundamental geometric error we term the $\textbf{Euclidean Fallacy}$: representing SE(3) poses as flat $\mathbb{R}^{12}$ vectors.

By Bing-Cheng Chuang, I-Hsuan Chu, Bor-Jiun Lin, YuanFu Yang, Min Sun, Chun-Yi Lee
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Convergence of Diffusion Models Under the Manifold Hypothesis in High-Dimensions

arXiv:2409. 18804v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) are powerful state-of-the-art methods used to generate synthetic data from high-dimensional data distributions and are widely used for image, audio, and video generation as well as many more applications in science and beyond.

By Iskander Azangulov, George Deligiannidis, Judith Rousseau
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Sharp Concentration Bounds for Bundle-Valued Statistics on Manifolds

arXiv:2607. 10592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many geometric statistics and manifold learning pipelines routinely produce observations -- such as tangent vectors or local frames -- whose natural home is a varying family of fibers attached to different points of a base manifold, rather than a single shared vector space.

By Swagatam Das, Vaclav Snasel
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

The Lie We Tell: Correcting the Euclidean Fallacy in Vision Language Action Policies via Score Matching on Tangent Space

Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action policies achieve remarkable success in robotic manipulation, yet commit a fundamental geometric error we term the $\textbf{Euclidean Fallacy}$: representing SE(3) poses as flat $\mathbb{R}^{12}$ vectors. This approximation induces (1) manifold drift violating SO(3) constraints, (2) broken equivariance under coordinate transformations, and (3) non-geodesic trajectories with excessive kinematic cost.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 17

Approximating Gaussian Whittle-Matern Fields over Well-Centered Triangulations of Riemannian Manifolds

arXiv:2606. 13827v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Markovian Whittle-Mat\'ern fields have been convergently approximated by discrete Gauss Markov Random Fields (GMRFs) with sparse precision matrices using a Finite Element approximation of the two-parameter family, \[ (\kappa^2 - \Delta)^{\alpha/2} u = \mathcal{W}, \;\; \kappa \in \mathbb{R}, \; \alpha \in \mathbb{N}.

By Srinivas Nambirajan