arXiv Machine Learning

Knowledge Manifold: A Riemannian Geometric Framework for Semantic Mapping and Geodesic Analysis of Scientific Literature

arXiv:2606. 05907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the knowledge manifold: a Riemannian geometric space in which a corpus of documents is arranged according to semantic positional relationships derived from character n-gram TF-IDF representations.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Iso-Riemannian Optimization on Learned Data Manifolds

arXiv:2510. 21033v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a theory of iso-Riemannian optimization for problems constrained to learned data manifolds, a setting in which classical Riemannian optimization - and Riemannian gradient descent in particular - can be poorly suited.

By Willem Diepeveen, Melanie Weber
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

GeoFlowVLM: Geometry-Aware Joint Uncertainty for Frozen Vision-Language Embedding

arXiv:2605. 13352v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard dual-encoder vision-language models that map images and text to deterministic points on a shared unit hypersphere through $\ell_2$ normalization typically expose neither \emph{aleatoric} uncertainty (cross-modal ambiguity) nor \emph{epistemic} uncertainty (lack of training-distribution support).

By Mayank Nautiyal, Li Ju, Andreas Hellander, Ekta Vats, Prashant Singh
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Text Has Curvature

The paper investigates whether natural language text possesses an intrinsic curvature, proposing a new metric called Texture that captures word-level discrete curvature. Texture is defined as a signed two-axis curvature of the word-in-context belief field, measuring how context from one side contracts or expands the semantic effect of context from the other side. The authors provide empirical and theoretical evidence of non-flat semantic inference, define Texture formally, and demonstrate its practical utility in improving long-context inference and retrieval-augmented generation.

By Karish Grover, Hanqing Zeng, Yinglong Xia, Christos Faloutsos, Geoffrey J. Gordon
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Beyond Unimodal Bases: Pullback Geometry for Multimodal Data

The paper introduces a pullback Riemannian geometry tailored for multimodal data by employing a latent Gaussian mixture model. It defines a smooth, positive‑definite metric based on responsibility‑weighted component precision, extending the standard single‑Gaussian construction. Experiments on synthetic, multi‑view image, and MNIST datasets demonstrate reduced transport distortion, accurate trajectory recovery, and more realistic interpolation.

By Honglei Brinkmann, Lucas Ng, Georgios Batzolis, Mark Girolami, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Willem Diepeveen
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Riemannian-Manifold Steering: Geometry-Aware Generative Autoencoders for Label-Free Steering

arXiv:2605. 24942v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Steering a language model - intervening on its internal activations to change downstream behaviour - has recently expanded beyond linear interpolation to nonlinear methods such as angular and kernelized steering, which define intervention transformations without learning an explicit geometry over paths in activation space.

By Narmeen Oozeer, Shivam Raval, Philip Quirke, Manikandan Ravikiran, Jeff Phillips, Shriyash Upadhyay, Amirali Abdullah