Intrinsic methods fill the default toolbox for geometry processing on meshes. Intrinsic operators, in particular the Laplacian, underlie methods that require invariance to isometry and have hence been employed in many algorithms for shape analysis, learning, and editing.
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
The paper introduces Spectrally Optimised Neural Discretisations (SpeND), a mesh‑free framework that learns discretisation weights from local stencil geometry on unstructured point clouds. By embedding discrete moment conditions into the network architecture, SpeND guarantees polynomial consistency and allows the weights to be optimised for spectral accuracy over a chosen wavenumber band, using an unsupervised Fourier‑mode loss. The resulting operators are PDE‑agnostic, perform well on Poisson, Burgers, and Navier–Stokes equations, and can reduce wall‑clock time by 3–20× compared to existing mesh‑free methods at the same accuracy.
By Lucas Gerken Starepravo, Henry Broadley, Steven Lind, Jack R. C. King
arXiv:2609.14841v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific machine learning methods such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) increasingly rely on domain decomposition for better scalability w...
By Sidharth S. Menon, Irina Tezaur, Ameya D. Jagtap
arXiv:2606. 03260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning surrogates for 3D Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) often fail to generalize across geometric transformations because they depend heavily on specific coordinate systems.
By Sungwon Kim, Juho Song, Seungmin Shin, Guimok Cho, Sangkook Kim, Chanyoung Park
arXiv:2606. 15760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A significant gap exists between theory and practice in deep learning.
By Marios Koulakis, Constantin Seibold
Generating high-quality triangle meshes is essential for film, gaming, and interactive 3D applications. Mainstream methods rely on mesh serialization and autoregressive processes, which stuggles in effective inference and is sensitive to error accumulation.
arXiv:2605.08172v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Anatomical mesh segmentation requires models that operate directly on irregular surface geometry while remaining robust to changes in coordinate po...
By Daniel Saragih
The paper introduces a differentiable voxelization technique that computes gradients of volumetric properties, such as winding numbers, with respect to surface mesh parameters. This method allows efficient optimization of triangle meshes using voxel-based volume samples on a regular grid. The authors demonstrate its utility in applications like resolving mesh intersections, designing manufacturable shapes for bandsaw cutting, and creating near-tiling 3D structures.
By Tobias Djuren, Ugo Finnendahl, Markus Worchel, Hendrik Meyer, Marc Alexa
arXiv:2608. 07549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Triangle meshes provide explicit and accurate surface geometry, yet their irregular topology connectivity makes 3D mesh tokenization a geometric sampling problem: how to sample and organize geometric evidence into compact, structured and learnable tokens.
By Zhenhong Sun, Haozhe Liu, Yifu Wang, Xibin Song, Senbo Wang, Huadong Mo, Daoyi Dong, Hongdong Li, Pan Ji
arXiv:2608. 15313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose SHOPCA (Shape Operator-based Principal Component Analysis), a novel method for unsupervised metric learning and dimensionality reduction that incorporates differential geometric information into the covariance structure of classical PCA.
By Alexandre L. M. Levada
arXiv:2607. 22215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this study, we introduce latent PDE mapping, a broadly applicable physics-informed learning technique designed to enable efficient geometric generalization with sparse training data.
By Ingvild Askim Adde, Mary M. Maleckar, Gabriel Balaban