arXiv Machine Learning

Soft-Argmax for the Projective Plane via the Veronese Embedding

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Information-Induced Training Geometry: Exact Reduction, Canonical Completion, and Structured Expressivity

The paper investigates how training data limits the geometry of an optimizer through the covectors that a specified information channel can observe. It establishes that, under affine‑invariant Riemannian geometry, a full‑column‑rank positive‑definite compression can be uniquely completed via a split‑Hadamard metric submetry, yielding exact variational reduction from the full geometry to the visible target. The resulting framework provides explicit formulas for pullback metrics, Gram matrices, and prior‑data shrinkage, and characterizes the gauge‑invariant rank stratification of the positive‑definite cone as the channel varies.

By Zavier Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

FlatVPR: Plug-and-play Geo-linear Residual Adapter for Geometric Rectification of Foundation Model Feature Manifolds

arXiv:2606. 01734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes ``FlatVPR,'' a novel geometric rectification paradigm that effectively bridges the trade-off between map lightweightness and localization accuracy in visual place recognition (VPR) by enforcing a feature manifold structure where any descriptor between two adjacent anchors $\mathbf{z}_A$ and $\mathbf{z}_B$ can be accurately reconstructed via linear interpolation $\hat{\mathbf{z}}_{pseudo} = (1-t)\mathbf{z}_A + t\mathbf{z}_B$, where $t \in [0,1]$ denotes the relative position.

By Rai Hisada, Kanji Tanaka
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Fast, Parallel, Query-Efficient Binary Classification

arXiv:2607. 04062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the fundamental classification problem of computing a separating hyperplane for a binary-labeled dataset of size $n$ with normalized $d$-dimensional features.

By Ishani Karmarkar, Liam O'Carroll, Aaron Sidford
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Hyper^2: Unleashing Hyperbolic Geometry's Full Potential via Dual-Space Consistency

The paper introduces Hyper^2, a dual‑space consistency framework that applies hyperbolic geometry consistently to both the loss and the encoder in point‑cloud completion tasks. By reusing the same arcosh(1+αd²) function as a positional bias in refinement attention and as the Chamfer loss, Hyper^2 achieves significant Chamfer error reductions—up to 22.9% on ShapeNet‑55 and 37.5% on unseen ShapeNet‑34—while adding only ~1.6% FLOPs. The authors demonstrate that geometric consistency across encoder and loss, rather than either component alone, is key to effective hyperbolic supervision, supported by two model‑agnostic indicators that peak only when both are hyperbolic.

By Guantian Zheng, Haiyang Xu, Tianyu Gao
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Exact equivariance, kept through training, buys zero-shot generalisation across the symmetry group

arXiv:2606. 03003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A latent world model built from an equivariant encoder $E$ and an equivariant predictor $f$ inherits a provable symmetry of its training loss: when the world's dynamics genuinely carries a group $G$ acting on latents by an orthogonal representation $\rho(g)$, the one-step prediction relMSE is exactly invariant across the whole group, so fitting the dynamics on a restricted slice of orientations mathematically determines it on the entire orbit (j\v{u} y\=i f\v{a}n s\=an).

By Hongbo Wang (Stony Brook University)
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Sphere Retraction Normalizations

arXiv:2608. 02668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Residual connections are the de facto mechanism for training deep neural networks stably.

By Jie Zhang, Cheng-Fang Su, Yi-Jui Huang, Min-Te Sun
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3

Projected Riemannian Gradient Descent for the Bures-Wasserstein Barycenter: Dimension-Independent Linear Convergence at Unit Step Size

The paper introduces a Projected Riemannian Gradient Descent (RGD) algorithm for computing the Bures‑Wasserstein barycenter of positive definite matrices, achieving dimension‑independent linear convergence at unit step size. It resolves a previous dichotomy by showing that clipping eigenvalues to a fixed interval yields a closed‑form, non‑expansive projection in the BW metric, allowing the algorithm to match the empirical speed of unit‑step RGD while maintaining theoretical guarantees. The method also extends to the invariant matrix projection problem, providing a unified dimension‑independent analysis.