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48 results for Manifold sampling

The Riemannian Langevin Algorithm samples from manifolds efficiently.

problem Sampling from distributions on manifolds with log-Sobolev inequality.
method Riemannian Langevin Algorithm, log-Sobolev inequality, self-concordance extension, stochastic smoothness bounding.
result The Riemannian Langevin Algorithm converges rapidly to the target density.

New method shows Hessian estimator from random samples converges to true Hessian on complex manifolds.

problem Uncertainty in Hessian estimator accuracy on complex manifolds with boundaries and nonuniform sampling.
method Locally fitting quadratic polynomials, rigorous theoretical analysis under mild conditions.
result The Hessian estimator asymptotically converges to the true Hessian, even near boundaries.

MAGT generates data efficiently by aligning to manifold structure.

problem Efficiently generating data near a low-dimensional structure embedded in high-dimensional space.
method MAGT is a flow-like generator that learns a one-shot, manifold-aligned transport from a low-dimensional base distribution to the data space, using a fixed Gaussian smoothing level and self-normalized importance sampling.
result MAGT samples in a single forward pass, concentrates probability near the learned support, and induces an intrinsic density with respect to the manifold volume measure, enabling principled likelihood evaluation for generated samples.

New summary measures reveal geometric structure in weighted measures on manifolds.

problem Lack of geometric information in standard weight-only summaries.
method Heat-kernel entropy profiles, tracking nonuniformity across scales.
result Geometric effective sample size discounts nearby or duplicate particles.

New method samples from multi-modal distributions on Riemannian manifolds without training.

problem Sampling from multi-modal distributions on Riemannian manifolds is challenging.
method Simulation of a non-equilibrium deterministic dynamics to transport noise toward target distributions.
result Method is entirely training-free and effective on various multi-modal problems.

A new method calculates intrinsic effective sample size for manifold-valued data.

problem Challenges in choosing effective sample size for manifold-valued data.
method Proposes an intrinsic effective sample size based on kernel discrepancy.
result Establishes an exact finite-sample risk interpretation and consistency of the estimator.

Graph Laplace operators uniquely identify metrics and densities on manifolds.

problem Identifying Riemannian metrics and sampling densities from graph Laplace operators.
method Analyzing intrinsic and extrinsic graph Laplace operators on compact Riemannian manifolds.
result Graph Laplace operators uniquely determine metrics and densities under certain conditions.

Spectral methods that are based on eigenvectors and eigenvalues of discrete graph Laplacians, such as Diffusion Maps and Laplacian Eigenmaps are often used for manifold learning and non-linear dimensionality reduction. It was previously shown by Belkin and Niyogi \cite{belkin_niyogi:2007} that the eigenvectors and eige…

2013-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

SBMs learn manifold-like structures by mixing samples with a non-conservative field.

problem How SBMs learn data distributions on low-dimensional manifolds.
method Investigating linear approximations and subspaces of local feature vectors during diffusion.
result SBMs mix samples by a non-conservative field within the manifold, maintaining manifold-like structure.

OptIMIS method improves SRAM yield estimation efficiency and accuracy.

problem Efficient estimation of SRAM failure probability with shrinking technology nodes.
method Generalized norm minimization method, optimal manifold concept, onion sampling, neural coupling flow.
result OptIMIS method delivers up to 3.5x efficiency and 3x accuracy over state-of-the-art methods.

This short note aims at (re)proving that the symmetrically normalized graph Laplacian $L=\Id - D^{-1/2}WD^{-1/2}$ (from a graph defined from a Gaussian weighting kernel on a sampled smooth manifold) converges towards the continuous Manifold Laplacian when the sampling become infinitely dense. The convergence rate with …

2011-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Boomerang generates nonidentical images similar to input on image manifolds.

problem Generating nonidentical images similar to input on image manifolds.
method Adding noise to input image, moving closer to latent space, and mapping back through partial reverse diffusion.
result Boomerang generates nonidentical images similar to input on image manifolds.

There has been an emerging trend in non-Euclidean statistical analysis of aiming to recover a low dimensional structure, namely a manifold, underlying the high dimensional data. Recovering the manifold requires the noise to be of certain concentration. Existing methods address this problem by constructing an approximat…

2019-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for few-sample FS using manifold learning.

problem Few-sample supervised feature selection in high-dimensional spaces.
method Learn feature associations on manifolds, compute composite kernel, and use spectral analysis for FS score.
result Our method outperforms competitors in feature selection and classification accuracy.

The study examines how shallow neural nets converge to training samples or manifold points during diffusion.

problem Understanding when and how shallow neural nets converge to training samples or manifold points during diffusion.
method Analysis of shallow ReLU neural network denoisers trained with minimal 2\ell^2 norm, comparing score flow and diffusion flow.
result Probability flow converges to training points, sums of training points, or manifold points, depending on the diffusion time scheduler.

Manifold learning based methods have been widely used for non-linear dimensionality reduction (NLDR). However, in many practical settings, the need to process streaming data is a challenge for such methods, owing to the high computational complexity involved. Moreover, most methods operate under the assumption that the…

2017-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved diffusion models solve inverse problems more accurately by correcting sample paths off the data manifold.

problem Current diffusion models for inverse problems often produce suboptimal results due to sample paths deviating from the data manifold.
method Proposed an additional correction term inspired by manifold constraints to make iterations closer to the data manifold.
result The proposed method boosts performance by a large margin, producing promising results in various applications.

Graph diffusion processes approximate manifold heat semigroups using graph transition matrices.

problem Approximating manifold heat semigroups from graph data under low regularity conditions.
method Iterating graph transition matrix PP to approximate Qt=etΔQ_t = e^{tΔ}, bounding error in \infty-norm.
result Convergence rates O(N2/(d+6))O(N^{-2/(d+6)}) for manifold heat semigroup approximation, valid for in-sample and out-of-sample.

Manifold Learning is a class of algorithms seeking a low-dimensional non-linear representation of high-dimensional data. Thus manifold learning algorithms are, at least in theory, most applicable to high-dimensional data and sample sizes to enable accurate estimation of the manifold. Despite this, most existing manifol…

2016-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Modern sample points in many applications no longer comprise real vectors in a real vector space but sample points of much more complex structures, which may be represented as points in a space with a certain underlying geometric structure, namely a manifold. Manifold learning is an emerging field for learning the unde…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for estimating density ratios using geodesics on statistical manifolds.

problem Stability of density ratio estimation when distributions are distant.
method Iterative sampling along generalized geodesics on the Riemannian manifold.
result The proposed method outperforms existing incremental mixture methods.

Adaptive sampling improves graph diffusion models by maintaining uniform information speed.

problem Standard diffusion models overlook non-homogeneous dynamics on complex manifolds.
method Information-geometric framework using Fisher-Rao metric and Drift Variation Score (DVS).
result DVS solver ensures uniform rate of distributional change, improving structural fidelity and efficiency.

This work improves sampling efficiency on complex spaces using determinantal processes.

problem Efficient sampling from large-scale datasets with general spaces.
method Determinantal point processes on general spaces and diffusion geometry.
result Improved sampling rates for determinantal processes on Riemannian manifolds and networks.