Obtaining complete information about the shape of an object by looking at it from a single direction is impossible in general. In this paper, we theoretically study obtaining differential geometric information of an object from orthogonal projections in a number of directions. We discuss relations between (1) a space c…
This paper analyzes quantiles of heavy-tailed distributions, separating projection direction and quantile threshold effects.
problem Analyzing quantiles of heavy-tailed distributions with estimated parameters.
method Introduces a Q-Q orthogonality formulation to separate projection-direction and quantile-threshold effects.
result Decomposes the difference between empirical and population quantiles into three terms.
The paper finds non-Gaussian directions in high-dimensional data using Wasserstein distance.
problem Locating interesting non-Gaussian features in high-dimensional data.
method Projection pursuit using 2-Wasserstein distance to maximize the difference from Gaussian.
result Statistical guarantees for accurately approximating an unknown low-dimensional non-Gaussian subspace.
Study of hyperbolic directions in convex projective geometry.
problem Understanding properties of quasi-geodesics in convex projective geometry.
method Three perspectives: Hilbert metric, boundary projective geometry, and automorphisms.
result Relationship between different definitions of Morse and regular quasi-geodesics.
A new method optimizes projection directions for sliced Wasserstein distances.
problem Finding informative projecting directions for sliced Wasserstein distances is computationally expensive.
method Amortized projection optimization to predict directions efficiently.
result Proposed amortized models improve generative modeling performance.
We endow projective (resp. direct) limits of Banach tensor structures with Fréchet (resp. convenient) structures and study adapted connections to G-structures in both frameworks. This situation is illustrated by a lot of examples.
Introduces MSW distances to improve SW metrics.
problem Redundant projections in SW distance.
method Imposes Markov structure on projecting directions.
result MSW distances improve SW metrics.
The non-convexity of a smooth and compact connected component of a real algebraic plane curve can be measured by a combinatorial object called the Poincare-Reeb tree associated to the curve and to a direction of projection. In this paper we show that if the chosen projection avoids the bitangents and the inflectional t…
Paper proposes PPMM for fast estimation of large-scale OTM.
problem Estimation of large-scale optimal transport maps (OTM) is challenging due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Combines projection pursuit regression and sufficient dimension reduction to adaptively select projection directions.
result PPMM consistently estimates the most informative projection direction and weakly converges to the target OTM.
Study slopes of direct images in complex manifolds, proving a Mehta-Ramanathan type theorem.
problem Distribution of Harder-Narasimhan slopes in direct image sheaves.
method Analyzing asymptotic distributions of slopes under base changes of families of complex projective manifolds.
result Asymptotic distribution of slopes can be recovered from base changes over generic curves.
The study connects surface geometry in 5D to 4D projections and umbilic curvatures.
problem Understanding the geometry of surfaces in 5D space.
method Relating surfaces in 5D to surfaces in 4D via projections and normal sections, analyzing asymptotic directions and umbilic curvatures.
result Relations between asymptotic directions and umbilic curvatures in 5D surfaces and their counterparts in 4D projections.
PGD-trained models have a preferential direction in their gradients, which improves robustness.
problem Mathematical lack of clarity in the direction of preferential gradient alignment after adversarial training.
method Proposed a novel definition of preferential direction and evaluated it using a metric based on GANs.
result PGD-trained models have higher alignment with the proposed preferential direction than baseline models.
A classical result asserts that the complex projective plane modulo complex conjugation is the 4-dimensional sphere. We generalize this result in two directions by considering the projective planes over the normed real division algebras and by considering the complexifications of these four projective planes.
A new distance measure balances projection exploration and informativeness.
problem Inefficient and incomplete projection sampling in existing sliced-Wasserstein distances.
method Proposes Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein (DSW) that optimally balances projection exploration and informativeness.
result DSW generalizes Max-SW and can be computed efficiently.
The paper studies volumes of direct images for high tensor powers of ample bundles.
problem Understanding asymptotics of Monge-Ampère volumes for high tensor powers of ample line bundles.
method Analyzes the leading term of asymptotics and classifies bundles saturating a topological bound.
result Provides a characterization of bundles admitting projectively flat Hermitian structures in the case of high symmetric powers of ample vector bundles.
Proposes a new neural head for asymmetric representation learning.
problem Asymmetric representation learning in directed relations.
method Role-aware neural convex divergence head.
result Role-aware projections improve directional accuracy over plain ICNN-Bregman heads.
Investigate the local geometry of smooth surfaces in 4-space via contact with 2-planes and apparent contours.
problem Local geometry of smooth surfaces in 4-space
method Contact with 2-planes and apparent contour
result Prove connections between singularities of parallel projections, orthogonal projections, and height functions.
This letter presents a new spectral-clustering-based approach to the subspace clustering problem. Underpinning the proposed method is a convex program for optimal direction search, which for each data point d finds an optimal direction in the span of the data that has minimum projection on the other data points and non…
The paper models financial order books using geometric shears and directional liquidity.
problem Understanding the geometry and dynamics of financial order books.
method Structural framework modeling liquidity as emergent observables, geometric shears, and directional imbalances.
result The geometry of financial order books can be described by a rigid drift and geometric shear, leading to a gamma-like profile of projected liquidity.
A new slicing method reduces computational cost for cross-domain alignment.
problem High computational cost in solving Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
method Relation-Aware Projecting Direction (RAPD) and Relation-Aware Slicing Distribution (RASD).
result RASGW distance reduces computational cost and improves alignment accuracy.
In this paper we introduce a projection method for the space of probability distributions based on the differential geometric approach to statistics. This method is based on a direct L2 metric as opposed to the usual Hellinger distance and the related Fisher Information metric. We explain how this apparatus can be used…
This is a detailed tutorial paper which explains the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Supervised PCA (SPCA), kernel PCA, and kernel SPCA. We start with projection, PCA with eigen-decomposition, PCA with one and multiple projection directions, properties of the projection matrix, reconstruction error minimization, an…
A new pruning method reduces neural network computation without retraining.
problem Efficiently reduce neural network computation while maintaining accuracy.
method Structured directional pruning via perturbation orthogonal projection.
result Achieves state-of-the-art pruned accuracy without retraining.
Defines and extends Lie algebroid prolongations in convenient settings.
problem Adapting Lie algebroid prolongations to convenient settings.
method Defined and adapted Lie algebroid prolongations over fibred manifolds.
result Stability of prolongations under projective and direct limits.
Constructs ε-splitting maps for geodesic balls with non-negative Ricci curvature.
problem Constructing ε-splitting maps for geodesic balls with non-negative Ricci curvature.
method Induction and stratified almost Gou-Gu Theorem for finding directional points; error estimates for projections.
result Constructs ε-splitting maps on concentric geodesic balls with uniformly small radius. The paper describes correlations of spectra for higher rank Anosov representations.
problem Understanding correlations of spectra for Anosov representations of higher rank groups.
method Relates correlation problem to counting projections in truncated hypertubes.
result Extends previous work on rank one representations to higher rank.
At each point in an immersed surface in R4 there is a curvature ellipse in the normal plane which codifies all the local second order geometry of the surface. More recently, at the singular point of a corank 1 singular surface in R3, a curvature parabola in the normal plane which codifies all the …
Develops exact and invariant study-based decompositions for network meta-analysis.
problem Lack of exact contribution decompositions in network meta-analysis.
method Contrast-space projection formulation of NMA, study-based definition of direct and indirect evidence.
result Exact covariance-aware decompositions of NMA estimator into direct and indirect contributions.
Formula for analytic torsion forms in fibrations by projective curves.
problem Calculating analytic torsion forms for specific geometric structures.
method New description of Bismut's equivariant Bott-Chern current for isolated fixed points.
result Explicit formula for analytic torsion forms in fibrations by projective curves.
Paper proves structure of compact Kähler 3-folds with specific bundles.
problem Characterizing compact Kähler 3-folds with nef anti-canonical bundles.
method Minimal Model Program, positivity of direct image sheaves, Q-conic bundles, orbifold vector bundles.
result Compact Kähler 3-folds with nef anti-canonical bundles are essentially one of three types.
In this paper, we show that the derivative of the genus-1 Virasoro conjecture for Gromov-Witten invariants along the direction of quantum volume element holds for all smooth projective varieties. This result provides new evidence for the Virasoro conjecture.
We show that the cobordism groups of negative codimensional folds maps contain direct sums of stable homotopy groups of Thom spaces of vector bundles like the circle and the infinite dimensional projective space. We give geometrical invariants which detect these direct summands.
Generalized Cauchy's surface area formula to arbitrary submanifolds in R^n.
problem Finding surface area of arbitrary submanifolds in R^n.
method Defining natural projected areas and volumes, deriving a recursive formula.
result Derived a new surface area formula that coincides with Crofton's and De Jong's formulas.
ProDAG uses variational inference to learn DAGs with uncertainty quantification.
problem Statistical and computational challenges in learning a single DAG from data.
method Bayesian variational inference framework with novel distributions.
result ProDAG outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives in accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
Recent studies classify the topology of proteins by analysing the distribution of their projections using knotoids. The approximation of this distribution depends on the number of projection directions that are sampled. Here we investigate the relation between knotoids differing only by small perturbations of the direc…
CDP reduces point cloud dimensions by preserving detour-induced local non-convexity.
problem Preserving local non-convexity in point cloud dimensionality reduction.
method CDP builds a k-NN graph, identifies admissible pairs, aggregates normalized directions, and uses top-k eigenvectors for projection.
result CDP provides verifiable guarantees on post-projection distortion and direction energy.
Researchers extend asymptotic analysis to Bergman projections with Gevrey weights.
problem Analyzing Bergman projections with Gevrey weights.
method Extending direct approach to semiclassical asymptotics to Gevrey weights using Fourier integral operators.
result Gevrey symbol amplitude of asymptotic Bergman projection with Gevrey weights and Gevrey-type growth rate.
The paper extends a formula linking surface curvature to projection invariants.
problem Investigating invariants of projected surface curves.
method Introduced invariants of plane curves from surface projections; extended d'Ocagne formula.
result Extended d'Ocagne formula connects surface curvature with projection behavior.
This paper discusses a new type of discriminant analysis based on the orthogonal projection of data onto a generalized difference subspace (GDS). In our previous work, we have demonstrated that GDS projection works as the quasi-orthogonalization of class subspaces, which is an effective feature extraction for subspace …
The abstract discusses financial irreversibility using quantum mechanics and projective geometry.
problem Financial irreversibility and its limitations in trading strategies.
method Projective geometry and Taylor expansion of directed distance in quantum systems.
result Fundamental asymmetry under state exchange is a key factor in financial irreversibility.
The study shows how many diameter directions in Besse manifolds relate to Blaschke manifolds.
problem Understanding the relationship between diameter directions and Blaschke manifolds in Besse manifolds.
method Analyzing the properties of Besse manifolds and pinched curvature metrics.
result Besse manifolds with many diameter directions are Blaschke manifolds.
A new slicing method speeds up sliced Wasserstein estimation.
problem Efficiently estimating sliced Wasserstein distance.
method Random-Path Projecting Direction (RPD) for fast sampling.
result RPSW and IWRPSW show favorable performance in training generative models.
In this paper we study the flag curvature of a particular class of Finsler metrics called general (α,β)-metrics, which are defined by a Riemannian metric α and a 1-form β. The classification of such metrics with constant flag curvature are completely determined under some suitable conditions, which make them be…
A class of surfaces-graphs in a Riemannian 3-space with a prescribed projection of one field of principal directions onto a surface Π is considered. A problem of determination of such surfaces when both principal curvatures are given over a line in Π is formulated and studied. The geometric problem is reduced to th…
Study curvatures of diffeomorphisms on non-orientable surfaces.
problem Computing curvatures of measure-preserving diffeomorphisms on non-orientable surfaces.
method Extending Arnold and Lukatskii's approach, computing curvatures and asymptotics.
result Computed curvatures and asymptotics for the Klein bottle and real projective plane.
The paper develops finite knot theory using ropelength-filtered Reidemeister graphs.
problem Understanding knot types in bounded ropelength sublevel spaces.
method Study thick representatives in bounded ropelength sublevel spaces through lifted Reidemeister graphs.
result Define characteristic Reidemeister patterns and finite recognition length.
The paper tackles learning varying DAG structures based on contextual features.
problem Learning a single DAG for the entire population from observational data.
method A neural network that maps contextual features to a weighted adjacency matrix of a DAG, with a projection layer to ensure acyclicity.
result The new approach can recover context-specific DAGs where existing methods fail.
Study on parabolic points and cylindrical surfaces in Euclidean 3-space.
problem Characterizing parabolic points and their geometric properties.
method Introducing contact cylindrical surfaces and analyzing their properties.
result Characterization of A-singularity through projections.