CupNet prunes neural nets for cup-shaped data.
problem Pruning neural networks for cup-shaped data.
method Used simulated cup drawing data to prune a neural network.
result Pruning effectively reduces network size for cup-shaped data.
Differentiable voxelization for 3D meshes with GPU acceleration.
problem Efficient and accurate voxelization of 3D meshes.
method Differentiable voxelization using winding number and solid angles, with GPU acceleration and neural network deformation.
result State-of-the-art performance in accuracy and efficiency on the ShapeNet dataset.
In this paper we study geometric, algebraic, and computational aspects of flexibility and infinitesimal flexibility of Kokotsakis meshes. A Kokotsakis mesh is a mesh that consists of a face in the middle and a certain band of faces attached to the middle face by its perimeter. In particular any 3x3-mesh made of quadran…
We create a smooth manifold of triangular meshes with a geodesically complete metric.
problem Representing and manipulating 2D shapes as triangular meshes.
method Developed a geodesically complete Riemannian metric for triangular meshes.
result The metric preserves mesh connectivity and avoids mesh degradation.
Generalized meshes for non-regular geometries, including fractures.
problem Discretization of partial differential equations in non-regular geometries.
method Introduces generalized meshes with overlapping elements and flexible adjacency relations.
result Discrete differential forms on virtually inflated meshes characterize the trace space of forms in surrounding volumes.
PolyGen models 3D meshes directly, predicting vertices and faces sequentially.
problem Efficiently modeling 3D geometry for computer graphics, robotics, and games.
method Transformer-based autoregressive model for predicting mesh vertices and faces.
result PolyGen produces high-quality, usable 3D meshes and competitive conditional performance.
New method improves human mesh recovery for obese people.
problem Improving mesh recovery for obese people.
method Generative optimization of mesh parameters from 2D keypoints.
result Significant improvement in mesh recovery performance on obese person images.
Extends geometric decompositions to arbitrary meshes and forms.
problem Constructing local bases for finite element spaces on arbitrary meshes.
method Generalizes extension operators to arbitrary meshes and forms, showing they yield geometric decompositions.
result Extension operators yield geometric decompositions for arbitrary meshes and forms.
The paper explores the topology of polygonal meshes and their properties.
problem Understanding the topological properties of polygonal meshes.
method Overview of topological concepts, definitions of intrinsic and extrinsic topology, proofs of Euler and Euler-Poincaré formulas, and discussion on cutting meshes.
result Detailed understanding and definitions of polygonal mesh topology, including intrinsic and extrinsic properties.
Proposes a new CNN for meshes that can handle orientation.
problem Isotropic kernels in graph convolutions are insensitive to mesh geometry.
method Introduces gauge equivariant kernels and geometric message passing.
result Significantly improved expressivity over conventional GCNs.
Approximates smooth surfaces using Laguerre geometry meshes.
problem Approximating smooth surfaces in Laguerre geometry.
method Using Laguerre meshes composed of quadrilaterals, cones, and spherical faces.
result Laguerre conjugate nets and directions for surface approximation.
AQFC method estimates mesh curvatures using quadratic surfaces.
problem Estimating curvatures for irregular polygonal meshes.
method Local approximation of vertices and normals by quadratic surfaces, computed as implicit surfaces.
result AQFC provides robust curvature estimation for irregular meshes.
Two algorithms create high-quality triangular meshes for surfaces with guaranteed angles.
problem Creating high-quality triangular meshes for surfaces with controlled angles.
method MidNormal and GradNormal algorithms generate meshes with specified angle constraints.
result Meshes converge to surfaces as mesh size decreases, maintaining specified angles.
New findings on mesh group-planes validate Signature-inverse Theorem under specific conditions.
problem Invalidity of existing inverse theorems for mesh group-planes.
method Classification of three and five point meshes, analysis of joint invariant signatures.
result Valid conditions for the Signature-inverse Theorem in mesh group-planes.
We construct a three-point compact finite difference scheme on a non-uniform mesh for the time-fractional Black-Scholes equation. We show that for special graded meshes used in finance, the Tavella-Randall and the quadratic meshes the numerical solution has a fourth-order accuracy in space. Numerical experiments are di…
The spectral geometry of mesh matrices of graphs is explored, leading to new formulas and eigenvalue estimates.
problem Understanding the spectral properties of mesh matrices of graphs.
method Definition and study of mesh matrices, introduction of mesh Laplacian, derivation of characteristic polynomial formulas.
result Mesh Laplacian eigenvalues are all real and greater than or equal to 1, with a smallest positive eigenvalue estimated.
Batch-splitting (data-parallelism) is the dominant distributed Deep Neural Network (DNN) training strategy, due to its universal applicability and its amenability to Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) programming. However, batch-splitting suffers from problems including the inability to train very large models (due to…
Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a systematic approach to global optimization-based versions of such methods for mixed volu…
Polygonal meshes provide an efficient representation for 3D shapes. They explicitly capture both shape surface and topology, and leverage non-uniformity to represent large flat regions as well as sharp, intricate features. This non-uniformity and irregularity, however, inhibits mesh analysis efforts using neural networ…
Eliciting semantic similarity between concepts in the biomedical domain remains a challenging task. Recent approaches founded on embedding vectors have gained in popularity as they risen to efficiently capture semantic relationships The underlying idea is that two words that have close meaning gather similar contexts. …
A relatively recent advance in cognitive neuroscience has been multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA), which enables researchers to decode brain states and/or the type of information represented in the brain during a cognitive operation. MVPA methods utilize machine learning algorithms to distinguish among types of inform…
Approximates surfaces using Laguerre geometry with spherical faces.
problem Approximating smooth surfaces using Laguerre geometry.
method Using Laguerre conjugate nets and spherical faces to approximate surfaces.
result Laguerre conjugate nets provide a method for surface approximation.
New method for mesh denoising using TGV of normal vector field.
problem Improving mesh quality by removing noise.
method Proposes a novel TGV formulation for normal vector fields on triangular meshes.
result New method outperforms existing techniques in mesh denoising experiments.
In this paper, the author considers the numerical computation of CVA for large systems by Mote Carlo methods. He introduces two types of stochastic mesh methods for the computations of CVA. In the first method, stochastic mesh method is used to obtain the future value of the derivative contracts. In the second method, …
New mesh network preserves symmetries in deep learning.
problem No existing mesh processing architecture is equivariant to all symmetries.
method Equivariant attention-based mesh network using relative tangential features.
result The network achieves improved performance and is equivariant to various transformations.
Paper proves discrete uniformizations converge to continuous for surfaces of genus ≥1.
problem Computing uniformizations for surfaces of genus >1.
method Discrete conformality and uniformization on triangle meshes.
result Discrete uniformizations approximate continuous uniformization for closed surfaces of genus ≥1.
This work develops discrete Gaussian models for vector-valued data on triangular meshes.
problem Discrete representation of continuous vector-valued environmental data.
method Develops discrete intrinsic Gaussian processes for vector-valued data on triangular meshes using discrete differential operators.
result Models can capture harmonic flows, incorporate boundary conditions, and model non-stationary data.
Unified framework designs LK structures using integer twists on non-manifold meshes.
problem Binary twisting limits topological possibilities and structural behaviors.
method Generalizes twist formulation to arbitrary integer labels for non-manifold meshes.
result Integer twists enable full connectivity and dynamic folding/articulation.
Unsupervised mesh disentanglement separates identity and pose.
problem Geometric disentanglement for 3D deformable models.
method CFAN-VAE architecture using conformal factor and normal features.
result CFAN-VAE achieves state-of-the-art performance on unsupervised geometric disentanglement.
Lookahead pruning extends single-layer optimization to multi-layer, outperforming magnitude-based pruning.
problem Pruning neural networks to reduce computational cost and memory usage.
method Developed a multi-layer optimization approach extending the single-layer optimization of magnitude-based pruning.
result Consistently outperforms magnitude-based pruning on various networks, especially in high sparsity.
To realize efficient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) prediction of two-phase flow, a multi-scale framework was proposed in this paper by applying a physics-guided data-driven approach. Instrumental to this framework, Feature Similarity Measurement (FSM) technique was developed for error estimation in two-phase flow …
A neural atlas simplifies 3D geometry simulation by avoiding meshing.
problem Simulation of complex 3D geometries with thin features or non-trivial topology.
method Learned geometric representation of overlapping volumetric coordinate charts, trained from point-cloud or level-set data.
result The learned atlas enables different solvers without re-meshing or re-parametrization.
In this note, we derive an approximation for the mean curvature normal vector on vertices of triangulated surface meshes from the Young-Laplace equation and the force balance principle. We then demonstrate that the approximation expression from our physics-based derivation is equivalent to the discrete Laplace-Beltrami…
Recent pruning methods at initialization fall short of random pruning's accuracy.
problem Improving neural network accuracy through pruning at initialization.
method Various pruning methods (SNIP, GraSP, SynFlow, magnitude pruning) are evaluated; per-layer pruning decisions are proposed.
result Randomly shuffling or sampling initial weights preserves or improves accuracy, suggesting challenges with pruning heuristics.
Paper generalizes discrete uniformization for genus-zero surfaces.
problem Discrete uniformization for surfaces of genus zero.
method Reduction to planar cases via stereographic projections.
result Generalization of discrete uniformization to genus-zero surfaces.
ICE-Pruning accelerates deep neural network pruning by 9.61x.
problem Efficiently pruning deep neural networks while maintaining accuracy.
method Iterative pruning with automatic fine-tuning steps, freezing strategy, and custom learning rate scheduler.
result Significantly reduces pruning time by up to 9.61x.
DSA efficiently allocates sparsity across layers for budgeted pruning.
problem Efficiently distributing resources (sparsity) across layers in pruning under resource constraints.
method DSA uses differentiable pruning to find continuous layer-wise pruning ratios via gradient-based optimization.
result DSA achieves superior performance and significantly reduces the time cost of pruning.
Study examines effects of pruning techniques on deep learning models.
problem Understanding the impact of pruning methods on deep learning model structure and dynamics.
method Investigated differences in connectivity and learning dynamics of pruned models using various iterative pruning techniques.
result Emergence of structure in pruned models through magnitude-based unstructured pruning and weight rewinding.
Point cloud is the most fundamental representation of 3D geometric objects. Analyzing and processing point cloud surfaces is important in computer graphics and computer vision. However, most of the existing algorithms for surface analysis require connectivity information. Therefore, it is desirable to develop a mesh st…
We developed a convolution neural network (CNN) on semi-regular triangulated meshes whose vertices have 6 neighbours. The key blocks of the proposed CNN, including convolution and down-sampling, are directly defined in a vertex domain. By exploiting the ordering property of semi-regular meshes, the convolution is defin…
In this short paper we investigate whether meta-learning techniques can be used to more effectively tune the hyperparameters of machine learning models using successive halving (SH). We propose a novel variant of the SH algorithm (MeSH), that uses meta-regressors to determine which candidate configurations should be el…
Pruning neural network parameters is often viewed as a means to compress models, but pruning has also been motivated by the desire to prevent overfitting. This motivation is particularly relevant given the perhaps surprising observation that a wide variety of pruning approaches increase test accuracy despite sometimes …
Dynamic pruning during training reduces deep network complexity without significant accuracy loss.
problem High memory and computational requirements of deep networks during training and inference.
method Dynamic pruning of convolutional filters during training, using L1 normalization for optimization.
result L1 normalization-based pruning yields up to 50% reduction in filters with minimal accuracy loss.
The study reveals flaws in pruning criteria and proposes a new assumption for better filter selection.
problem Flaws in existing pruning criteria for CNNs.
method Empirical experiments and Convolutional Weight Distribution Assumption.
result The Convolutional Weight Distribution Assumption improves filter selection in pruning.
A new method for nonparametric regression using mesh-based solutions.
problem Estimating regression functions non-parametrically with computational tractability.
method Mesh-based approximate solution (MBS) for penalized regression problems.
result MBS transforms NPR to a discrete convex minimization problem, making it computationally feasible.
Deep neural networks have dramatically achieved great success on a variety of challenging tasks. However, most successful DNNs have an extremely complex structure, leading to extensive research on model compression.As a significant area of progress in model compression, traditional gradual pruning approaches involve an…
Gibbs pruning optimizes neural networks by combining physics and regularization.
problem Large neural networks are impractical for many applications.
method Combines statistical physics and stochastic regularization to train and prune networks simultaneously.
result Gibbs pruning achieves state-of-the-art performance on ResNet-56.
Generative modeling of 3D shapes has become an important problem due to its relevance to many applications across Computer Vision, Graphics, and VR. In this paper we build upon recently introduced 3D mesh-convolutional Variational AutoEncoders which have shown great promise for learning rich representations of deformab…