New distances defined on Legendrian spaces without positive loops.
problem Defining distances on Legendrian spaces without positive loops.
method Constructing unbounded invariant distances on Legendrian isotopy classes.
result Invariant distances on Legendrian isotopy classes are discrete.
The literature postulates that the dynamic time warping (dtw) distance can cope with temporal variations but stores and processes time series in a form as if the dtw-distance cannot cope with such variations. To address this inconsistency, we first show that the dtw-distance is not warping-invariant. The lack of warpin…
Constructs portfolios based on Hellinger distance to normal, finding market invariance.
problem Finding a market invariant for portfolio construction.
method Uses Hellinger distance to normal distribution for portfolio construction and analysis.
result Minimum Hellinger distance varies drastically between markets, suggesting market invariance.
The study bounds distances in simplicial complexes and defines new invariants for 3-manifolds and handlebody-knots.
problem Estimating distances in simplicial complexes associated with low-dimensional manifolds.
method Obtained bounds on distances in simplicial complexes using topological conditions on vertices and curve complexes. Defined new invariants for 3-manifolds and handlebody-knots using splitting distances.
result Splitting distances in simplicial complexes are bounded from below under stabilizations, leading to converging invariants.
New bounds for knot distances using Khovanov homology.
problem Calculating precise distances between knots.
method Using Khovanov homology to refine existing bounds.
result Improved bounds for Gordian distances of knots.
A new metric mav offers a practical alternative to costly Riemannian distance.
problem Efficiently compute Riemannian distance on SE(3) invariant metrics.
method Propose mav distance, defined as Riemannian length of a curve.
result Mav distance offers a trainable invariant for geometric deep learning.
In this work an intrinsic projectively invariant distance is used to establish a new approach to the study of projective geometry in Finsler space. It is shown that the projectively invariant distance previously defined is a constant multiple of the Finsler distance in certain case. As a consequence, two projectively r…
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.
We consider various notions of strains; quantitative measures for the deviation of a linear transformation from an isometry. The main approach, which is motivated by physical applications and follows the work of Patrizio Neff and co-workers , is to select a Riemannian metric on GLn, and use its induced geodes…
Defines contact surgery distance and shows it's bounded by topological surgery distance by 5.
problem Comparing contact structures on 3-manifolds.
method Defining contact surgery distance and proving upper bound on its value.
result Contact surgery distance is at most 5 larger than topological surgery distance.
Lie groups with bi-invariant distance are products of abelian and compact groups.
problem Characterizing Lie groups with bi-invariant distances.
method Analyzing the structure of Lie groups and introducing a Finsler norm.
result The sectional curvature of bi-invariant distances is non-negative and vanishes only for abelian subalgebras.
Permutation invariant network learns Wasserstein metrics.
problem Understanding the space of probability measures and comparing distributions.
method Permutation invariant network mapping samples to a low-dimensional space.
result Network can generalize to compute distances between unseen densities and learn moments.
Introduces new Wasserstein distances for more intrinsic metrics.
problem Improve metric for comparing distributions.
method Introduces RWp distances, designs algorithms for computation. result New distances are more intrinsic and computable.
Paper introduces a new invariant for planar knotoids.
problem Defining an invariant for planar knotoids.
method Using Gauss diagrams and transcendental functions.
result The invariant is a Vassiliev invariant of order one.
The Gordian distance between two knots measures how many crossing changes are needed to transform one knot into the other. It is known that there are always infinitely many non-equivalent knots `between' a pair of knots of Gordian distance two. In this paper we prove an extreme generalisation of this fact: there are kn…
Here, a non-linear analysis method is applied rather than classical one to study projective Finsler geometry. More intuitively, by means of an inequality on Ricci-Finsler curvature, a projectively invariant pseudo-distance is introduced and an analogous of Schwarz' lemma in Finsler geometry is proved. Next, the Schwarz…
Study distance one surgeries between specific lens spaces.
problem Calculating the distance one surgeries between lens spaces L(p,1) and L(q,2). method Used the d-invariant surgery formula from Wu and Yang's work.
result Established conditions for distance one surgeries between lens spaces.
The paper proposes a method to create domain-invariant representations using Wasserstein distance.
problem Domain shifts in training data affect machine learning model performance across different domains.
method The method combines classification/regression losses with a GAN-type discriminator to minimize the Wasserstein distance between domains.
result The approach produces the highest minimum classification accuracy and most invariant representation across domains.
Here, a non-linear analysis method is applied rather than classical one to study projective changes of Finsler metrics. More intuitively, a projectively invariant pseudo-distance is introduced and characterized with respect to the Ricci tensor and its covariant derivatives.
A new model encodes distances and topology in latent variables.
problem Modeling dissimilarity data with latent variables and invariances.
method Isometric Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model using Riemannian geometry and variational inference.
result The model can encode invariances in learned manifolds.
A new invariant captures geometric features of circle embeddings.
problem Capturing geometric features of circle embeddings invariantly.
method Chordal distance transform and persistent homology.
result Persistent homology of chordal distance transform is invariant.
Paper introduces new Gromov-type distances for comparing Gaussian mixture models.
problem Comparing distributions across different metric spaces using Gromov-Wasserstein distances.
method Incorporates invariance properties into MW2, introducing MGW2 and EW2.
result MGW2 and EW2 are efficient for estimating distances between GMMs in practical applications.
We study the geodesic distance induced by right-invariant metrics on the group Diffc(M) of compactly supported diffeomorphisms, for various Sobolev norms Ws,p. Our main result is that the geodesic distance vanishes identically on every connected component whenever s<min{n/p,1}, where …
The paper studies horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones under Finsler distances.
problem Understanding horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones under Finsler distances.
method Establishing a correspondence between horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones and normed spaces, using Thompson and Hilbert distances.
result Explicit extensions of the exponential map and characterizations of horofunctions for Thompson and Hilbert distances.
An alternating distance is a link invariant that measures how far away a link is from alternating. We study several alternating distances and demonstrate that there exist families of links for which the difference between certain alternating distances is arbitrarily large. We also show that two alternating distances, t…
Domain adaptation aims at generalizing a high-performance learner on a target domain via utilizing the knowledge distilled from a source domain which has a different but related data distribution. One solution to domain adaptation is to learn domain invariant feature representations while the learned representations sh…
We provide an easy approach to the geodesic distance on the general linear group GL(n) for left-invariant Riemannian metrics which are also right-O(n)-invariant. The parametrization of geodesic curves and the global existence of length minimizing geodesics are deduced using simple methods based on the calculus of varia…
The paper describes distances on Sol-type groups using novel geometric techniques.
problem Understanding distances on Sol-type groups.
method New technique of Euclidean curve surgery to describe uniformly roughly geodesic paths.
result The rough isometry type of distances on Sol-type groups is determined by a specific metric restriction.
The dynamic time warping (dtw) distance fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and the identity of indiscernibles. As a consequence, the dtw-distance is not warping-invariant, which in turn results in peculiarities in data mining applications. This article converts the dtw-distance to a semi-metric and shows that its…
Study on geodesic distances on SE(3)/SO(2) in machine learning.
problem Investigating the efficiency of computationally efficient sections in selecting geodesic distances.
method Analyzing geodesic distances on reductive homogeneous spaces, proving the efficiency of minimal distance sections.
result Minimal distance sections are not always geodesic minimizers, but minimal horizontal geodesics are.
We consider the set of connected surfaces in the 4-ball with boundary a fixed knot in the 3-sphere. We define the stabilization distance between two surfaces as the minimal g such that we can get from one to the other using stabilizations and destabilizations through surfaces of genus at most g. Similarly, we consi…
A new sliced IGW distance for Gromov-Wasserstein alignment.
problem Scalability issues in Gromov-Wasserstein alignment for high-dimensional problems.
method Proposed a sliced IGW distance with rotational invariance.
result Natural rotational invariance of the sliced IGW distance.
Research explores Lorentzian distances on a specific geometric plane.
problem Investigating Lorentzian structures on a 2D geometric plane.
method Analyzes sectional curvature, attainable sets, and Lorentzian length maximizers.
result Describes distance properties and spheres in the context of Lorentzian geometry.
A projective parameter of a geodesic on a Finsler space is defined to be solution of a certain ODE. Using projective parameter and Funk metric, one can construct a projectively invariant intrinsic pseudo-distance on a Finsler space. In the present work, solutions of the projective parameter's ODE are characterized with…
New geometric invariant from min-max width of spheres on Riemannian 2-spheres.
problem Understanding the min-max width of spheres associated to distance functions.
method Application of min-max methods to pairs of points on Riemannian 2-spheres.
result The min-max width does not always equal half the length of a simple closed geodesic.
New Gromov-Wasserstein metric controls rigidity and incorporates prior knowledge.
problem Inflexible Gromov-Wasserstein distance and lack of feature alignment.
method Augmented Gromov-Wasserstein distance with feature alignments and prior knowledge.
result Improved performance in single-cell multi-omic alignment and transfer learning.
The geodesic distance vanishes on the group of compactly supported diffeomorphisms of a Riemannian manifold M of bounded geometry, for the right invariant weak Riemannian metric which is induced by the Sobolev metric Hs of order 0≤s<21 on the Lie algebra Xc(M) of vector fields with compact …
New invariant measures how many twists are needed to unknot welded knots.
problem Measuring complexity of welded knots.
method Local twist move, Alexander quandle coloring, Gordian distance.
result Established lower bound on twist number and related it to other knot invariants.
Complete Finsler spaces with negative Ricci curvature are reversible.
problem Characterizing Finsler spaces with constant negative Ricci curvature.
method Utilizing projectively invariant pseudo-distance and Schwarzian derivative.
result Every connected complete Finsler space with constant negative Ricci scalar is reversible.
The paper is devoted to the large scale geometry of the Heisenberg group H equipped with left-invariant Riemannian distances. We prove that two such distances have bounded difference if and only if they are asymptotic, i.e., their ratio goes to one, at infinity. Moreover, we show that for every left-invariant…
Energy functional for Legendrian knots in Heisenberg group, invariant under PU(2,1).
problem Energy functional for Legendrian knots in Heisenberg group.
method Regularization of divergent integral with Korányi distance, invariant under PU(2,1).
result Characterization of minimizers and Heisenberg analog of Doyle-Schramm cosine formula.
A new Wasserstein distance method for comparing incomparable distributions.
problem Comparing distributions that are not supported on the same metric space.
method Distributional slicing, embeddings, and closed-form computation of Wasserstein distance.
result HWD preserves properties like rotation-invariance and can be efficiently learned.
The paper studies parallel surfaces of cuspidal cross caps and their degeneracy.
problem Investigating the geometry and singularities of parallel surfaces of cuspidal cross caps.
method Established a criterion for the degeneracy of the distance squared function using geometric invariants.
result Parallel surfaces degenerate into a degenerated cuspidal S1 singularity at specific distances.
Modified Wasserstein metric for Gaussian distributions, invariant to isometries.
problem Distance measurement for latent Gaussian distributions invariant to isometries.
method Modified Benamou-Brenier approach leading to a Procrustes Wasserstein metric.
result For Gaussian distributions, the metric reduces to Euclidean distance between eigenvalues.
The Virasoro-Bott group endowed with the right-invariant L2-metric (which is a weak Riemannian metric) has the KdV-equation as geodesic equation. We prove that this metric space has vanishing geodesic distance.
A novel distance measure aligns time series with feature and temporal variability.
problem Measuring similarity between time series with different features and dynamics.
method Learn a latent global transformation and temporal alignment in a joint optimization problem.
result Framework robustly aligns time series across various invariance classes.
We study the geodesic distance induced by right-invariant metrics on the group Diffc(M) of compactly supported diffeomorphisms of a manifold M, and show that it vanishes for the critical Sobolev norms Ws,n/s, where n is the dimension of M and s∈(0,1). This completes the proof that the g…
The study uncovers invariant features in healthcare models that traditional methods overlook.
problem Discovering overlooked invariant features in healthcare models.
method Empirical learning of transformations minimizing Wasserstein distance and adding similarity regularization.
result LSTM models and BioBERT reveal invariant features not previously recognized.