arXiv:2606. 13827v1 Announce Type: 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
arXiv:2607. 06644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Determinantal point processes have recently emerged as a kernel-based alternative to standard independent sampling for constructing efficient minibatches, coresets, and other compact representations of large-scale datasets.
By Hoang-Son Tran, Pranav Gupta, Subhroshekhar Ghosh
arXiv:2512. 06143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite a large corpus of recent work on scaling up Gaussian processes, a stubborn trade-off between computational speed, prediction and uncertainty quantification accuracy, and customizability persists.
By Marcus M. Noack, Mark D. Risser, Hengrui Luo, Vardaan Tekriwal, Ronald J. Pandolfi
arXiv:2609.36568v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative models, with recent extensions from Euclidean spaces to Riemannian manifolds. However, exi...
By Yuhao Liu, Longbo Huang
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.
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. 03762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The computation of the Bures-Wasserstein (BW) barycenter of an ensemble of positive definite matrices arises throughout machine learning, optimal transport, and quantum information.
By A. Afham
arXiv:2609. 17089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The choice of Riemannian metric can strongly influence the convergence of gradient-based optimization over covariance matrices.
By Yibang Li, Bamdev Mishra, Pratik Jawanpuria, Cyrus Mostajeran
arXiv:2608. 14556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical fields on meshes require a separation between topology and geometry: conservation laws are topological and should be exact, while geometry, material response, and anisotropic coupling must be learned from data.
By Dongzhe Zheng, Christine Allen-Blanchette
arXiv:2608.19021v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Global Covariance Pooling (GCP) improves deep networks by capturing second-order feature statistics, and is especially effective for fine-grained r...
By Md Rifat Ur Rahman, Md Raihan Khan, Md Sakib Hossain Shovon, Pietro Li\`o, Mohammad Ali Moni
arXiv:2509. 03758v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a data-driven interpolation framework for reconstructing real-valued functions on smooth manifolds from scattered pointwise observations.
By Alvaro Almeida Gomez
arXiv:2606. 27298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the fundamental problem of learning a high-dimensional Gaussian truncated to an unknown halfspace.
By Haitong Liu, Deepak Narayanan Sridharan, David Steurer, Manuel Wiedmer