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48 results for geodesic distance matrices

Efficiently represents large geodesic distance matrices for MDS analysis.

problem Quadratic growth of geodesic distance matrices for large point sets.
method Sparse biharmonic interpolation to learn a subset of points for efficient approximation.
result 2x faster and 20x less memory usage than current methods, enabling analyses of large point sets.

Study of metrics on positive-definite matrices from power potential, linking to power means.

problem Understanding metrics on positive-definite matrices derived from power potential.
method Explicit expressions for geodesics and distance function derived from Hessian of power potential.
result Geodesics and distance function converge to weighted matrix geometric mean as β tends to zero.

This paper studies geodesics between covariance matrices of different ranks using the Bures-Wasserstein metric.

problem Geodesics between covariance matrices of varying ranks.
method Analyzes the Bures-Wasserstein distance on covariance matrices, completing previous work on geodesics and providing explicit formulas.
result The set of all minimizing geodesics between two covariance matrices is parametrized by a closed unit ball in R(kr)imes(lr)\mathbb{R}^{(k-r) imes(l-r)}.

Gradient descent algorithms on manifolds solve control and mean computation problems.

problem Control and mean computation on positive definite Hermitian matrices.
method Riemannian and natural gradient algorithms applied to geodesic distance.
result Efficient algorithms for control and mean computation demonstrated.

The paper explores totally geodesic submanifolds in SPD matrices and their properties.

problem Characterizing and understanding totally geodesic submanifolds in SPD matrices.
method Detailed geometric analysis and projection properties of SPD matrices.
result A non-linear projection on totally geodesic submanifolds has the minimizing property.

Bounds on geodesic distances on Stiefel manifold derived from new metrics.

problem Improving geodesic computation algorithms and understanding Stiefel manifold.
method New geometric insights and Lipschitz constants for geodesic distances.
result Explicit bounds on geodesic distances and conditions for attaining bounds.

Geometric analysis of normal distributions using Fisher and Killing metrics.

problem Quantifying the difference between Fisher and Killing metrics on the space of normal distributions.
method Riemannian geometry, Fisher information metric, Killing metric, asymptotic geodesics.
result Approximation of Fisher metric by Killing metric for long distances is justified.

In this paper we study the metric geometry of the space ΣΣ of positive invertible elements of a von Neumann algebra A{\mathcal A} with a finite, normal and faithful tracial state ττ. The trace induces an incomplete Riemannian metric <x,y>a=τ(ya1xa1)<x,y>_a=τ(ya^{-1}xa^{-1}), and though the techniques involved are quite different,…

2008-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New geometric structures defined on SPD matrices for better understanding.

problem Understanding SPD matrices and their geometric properties.
method Introducing Finslerian and dual information-geometric structures on James' bicone domain.
result Geodesics correspond to straight lines in coordinate systems, and new dissimilarities generalize existing ones.

New distances for comparing multivariate normal distributions.

problem Comparing multivariate normal distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Approximated Fisher-Rao distance and pullback SPD cone distances.
result Efficient computation of distances between normal distributions.

Researchers develop geodesics for a new metric on correlation matrices.

problem Lack of intrinsic tools for statistical analyses of correlation matrices.
method Developed geodesics for the quotient-affine metric on full-rank correlation matrices.
result Provided fundamental Riemannian operations for the quotient-affine metric.

This paper studies geometric properties of Wasserstein metric on SPD(n).

problem Understanding the geometry of symmetric positive-definite matrices under Wasserstein metric.
method Using fiber bundles, the paper derives explicit geometric quantities and proves global properties.
result The manifold is globally geodesic convex with non-negative curvatures but no conjugate pair and cut locus.

Two algorithms estimate Wasserstein distance matrices from few entries for manifold learning.

problem Estimating Wasserstein distance matrices from limited data for manifold learning.
method Proposes two algorithms: matrix completion and Nyström completion for square Wasserstein matrices.
result Nyström completion can outperform matrix completion with a fixed sample budget and improve classification stability.

We embed objects as elliptical distributions using the Wasserstein metric.

problem Embedding complex objects as vectors in low dimensional spaces.
method Embedding objects as elliptical probability distributions with the 2-Wasserstein metric.
result Wasserstein elliptical embeddings provide more intuitive and numerically stable tools than Gaussian embeddings.

Study the geometric properties of skew symmetric matrices and orthogonal groups.

problem Understanding the geometric properties of skew symmetric matrices and orthogonal groups.
method Investigate the differential-geometric properties of the exponential map and Riemannian structure.
result Connections between skew symmetric matrices and orthogonal groups are revealed.

The paper connects geodesic nets to distance function critical points.

problem Understanding the relationship between geodesic nets and distance function critical points.
method Established a relationship between geodesic nets and critical points of the distance function.
result Bounded the number of balanced points and the length of certain minimizing geodesic nets.

Generates valid Euclidean distance matrices for molecular structures.

problem Generating point clouds in arbitrary rotations and translations is challenging.
method Developed a neural network architecture that produces valid Euclidean distance matrices invariant to rotations and translations.
result The architecture can generate molecular structures in a one-shot fashion by producing Euclidean distance matrices with a three-dimensional embedding.

Researchers found sub-Lorentzian geodesics on a specific Lie subgroup.

problem Finding geodesics on a specific Lie subgroup with a sub-Lorentzian metric.
method Formulated a time-anti-optimal control problem, applied Pontryagin's minimum principle, and used geodesics and shortest arcs of a sub-Riemannian metric.
result Discovered sub-Lorentzian nonspacelike geodesics and longest arcs.

The density matrices are positively semi-definite Hermitian matrices of unit trace that describe the state of a quantum system. The goal of the paper is to develop minimax lower bounds on error rates of estimation of low rank density matrices in trace regression models used in quantum state tomography (in particular, i…

2015-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new Sliced-Wasserstein distance for covariance matrices in M/EEG signals.

problem Efficiently dealing with distributions of covariance matrices in M/EEG multivariate time series.
method Defines a Sliced-Wasserstein distance for symmetric positive definite matrices and applies it to brain-age prediction and Brain Computer Interface applications.
result Demonstrates computational efficiency and strong theoretical guarantees for the proposed distance.

Geodesic distance vanishes for certain Sobolev metrics on diffeomorphisms.

problem Analyzing geodesic distance in diffeomorphism groups for various Sobolev norms.
method Study of right-invariant Sobolev metrics on compactly supported diffeomorphisms.
result Geodesic distance vanishes identically for s<min{n/p,1}s < \min\{n/p,1\}, and is positive otherwise.

New method for sampling orthogonal matrices using Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo.

problem Sampling from posterior distributions of orthogonal matrices in Bayesian models.
method Proposes a new sampling scheme based on Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo and Riemannian optimization.
result New method is comparable or faster in time per iteration and more sample-efficient than conventional methods.

The L2L^2-metric or Fubini-Study metric on the non-linear Grassmannian of all submanifolds of type MM in a Riemannian manifold (N,g)(N,g) induces geodesic distance 0. We discuss another metric which involves the mean curvature and shows that its geodesic distance is a good topological metric. The vanishing phenomenon for…

2004-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Geodesic rays and chordal distances link algebraic and geometric properties of positive metrics.

problem Understanding the geometry of the space of positive metrics at infinity.
method Using Monge-Ampère equations and test configurations, algebraic descriptions of geodesic rays and chordal distances are derived.
result The Mabuchi chordal distance between geodesic rays associated with ample test configurations equals the spectral distance between their filtrations.

Geometric framework for SPD matrices preserving subspace structures.

problem Processing SPD-valued data with preserved subspace structures.
method Thompson geometry of the semidefinite cone, extreme generalized eigenvalues, geodesic space structure.
result Novel inductive mean of SPD matrices based on Thompson geometry.

The distance function ϱ(p,q)\varrho(p,q) (or d(p,q)d(p,q)) of a distance space (general metric space) is not differentiable in general. We investigate such distance spaces over Rn\mathbb R^n, whose distance functions are differentiable like in case of Finsler spaces. These spaces have several good properties, yet they are no F…

2015-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce an universum of the Polish (=complete separable metric) space - the convex cone of distance matrices and study its geometry. It happened that the generic Polish spaces in this sense of this universum is so called Urysohn spaces defined by P.S.Urysohn in 20-th, and generic metric triple (= metric space with…

2002-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Positive definite matrices abound in a dazzling variety of applications. This ubiquity can be in part attributed to their rich geometric structure: positive definite matrices form a self-dual convex cone whose strict interior is a Riemannian manifold. The manifold view is endowed with a "natural" distance function whil…

2011-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study geodesic curvature in Heisenberg group, interpreting it as distance correction.

problem Interpreting geodesic curvature in the Heisenberg group.
method Analyzing smooth horizontal curves in the Heisenberg group, interpreting curvature as distance correction.
result Geodesic curvature in Heisenberg group is the first term in distance expansion.

Assigns compact set distance-like functions to non-compact geodesic spaces.

problem Assigning distance-like functions to compact sets in non-compact geodesic spaces.
method Assigns each compact set a distance-like function and studies the pseudo-metric on the space of compact subsets.
result Obtains a pseudo-metric on the space of compact subsets that is less than the Hausdorff distance.

A method for learning embeddings from multi-view data using Gromov-Wasserstein.

problem Challenges in learning low-dimensional representations from multi-view relational data with differing geometries.
method Bary-GWMDS and Mean-GWMDS-C, Gromov-Wasserstein-based methods operating on distance matrices.
result Stable and geometrically meaningful embeddings learned from synthetic and real-world datasets.