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20142026
most citedPPFNet: Global Context Aware Local Features for Robust 3D Point Matching

56 citations · 308 across the 70 of their papers we have counts for

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86 papers

cs.LG2026

RNADyn: A Benchmark for Generating and Understanding RNA Dynamics

Yiming Huang, Lennart Bastian, Hanqun Cao +2

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) functions through conformational changes that are not fully captured by static structures. However, large-scale standardized RNA dynamics data remain limited…

cs.LG2026

Higher-Order Molecular Grammars for Generative and Foundation Models in Chemistry

Yiming Huang, Yujie Zeng, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi +4

Molecular learning models are strongly shaped by their underlying representations. Yet standard sequential and graph formalisms struggle to explicitly encode higher-order topology,…

cs.CV2026

Task-Induced Riemannian Metrics for Vision Transformer Feature Spaces

Andrew Bond, Ege Erdem Özlü, Tuna Çimen +4

Methods operating on Vision Transformer (ViT) feature spaces typically rely on Euclidean distance or cosine similarity. This assumes that every direction is equally meaningful, but…

cs.CV2026

Heat Kernel Textures: the Geodesic Gaussians That Do Not Splat

Simone Foti, Caner Korkmaz, Stefanos Zafeiriou +1

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently revolutionised novel view synthesis as well as many other 3D vision methods and applications. Drawing inspiration from this representation, we no…

quant-ph2026

Bernstein-Vazirani Networks: Quantum Machine Learning by Interference

Natacha Kuete Meli, Tolga Birdal, Prayag Tiwari +2

We introduce Bernstein-Vazirani Networks (BVNs), a non-variational quantum machine learning framework that leverages quantum interference for supervised learning, demonstrated on v…

cs.CV2026

Latent Riemannian Flow Matching for Geometry-Grounded 3D Foundation Models

Lisa Weijler, Irene Ballester, Guofeng Mei +2

Geometric foundation models, such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), provide strong 3D priors from unposed images. However, such models operate purely in a feed-fo…

cs.CV2026

SAMoR: Motion Modelling for Articulated Objects of Any Skeleton and Topology

Yuhao Zhang, Gerard Pons-Moll, Tolga Birdal

Modeling motion for articulated objects of arbitrary skeleton topology remains difficult: existing motion generators target a fixed human skeleton, and prior adaptations either fai…

cs.LG2026

Collapsed Effective Operators for Higher-order Structures

Maximilian Krahn, Lennart Bastian, Vikas Garg +2

Higher-order structures are powerful relational modeling tools, yet existing spectral operators decompose the topology into separate ranks, leaving practitioners to fuse the inform…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Learning Interface Breakup: A Geometry-Conditioned Latent Surrogate for Spray Formation

Julius H Ramlau, Friedrich Hastedt, Tolga Birdal +3

Designing spray nozzles requires predicting how geometry shapes transient two-phase breakup, but high-fidelity volume-of-fluid (VOF) simulations with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)…

cs.LG2026

Topological Neural Operators

Lennart Bastian, Samuel Leventhal, Mustafa Hajij +1

We introduce Topological Neural Operators (TNOs), a principled framework for operator learning on cell complexes that lifts neural operators (NOs) from functions on points and/or e…

cs.CV2026

DisPOSE: Projected Polystochastic Diffusion for Self-Supervised Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation

Tony Danjun Wang, Tolga Birdal, Nassir Navab +1

Recovering 3D human poses for multiple individuals from different camera views is a fundamental bottleneck for analyzing interacting behaviors. Existing self-supervised approaches…

cs.LG2026

Variational Inference for Lévy Process-Driven SDEs via Neural Tilting

Yaman Kindap, Manfred Opper, Benjamin Dupuis +2

Modelling extreme events and heavy-tailed phenomena is central to building reliable predictive systems in domains such as finance, climate science, and safety-critical AI. While Lé…

math.CO2026

Root-to-Leaf Path Random Walks, Normalized Hodge Laplacians, and Cheeger Inequalities on Simplicial Complexes

Francesco Viganò, Tolga Birdal, Michael T. Schaub +1

We introduce root-to-leaf path random walks on double covers of graded signed graphs and analyze their behavior in a general setting. Viewing simplicial complexes within this frame…

cs.LG2026

Generalization at the Edge of Stability

Mario Tuci, Caner Korkmaz, Umut Şimşekli +1

Training modern neural networks often relies on large learning rates, operating at the edge of stability, where the optimization dynamics exhibit oscillatory and chaotic behavior.…

cs.CV2026

Parallelised Differentiable Straightest Geodesics for 3D Meshes

Hippolyte Verninas, Caner Korkmaz, Stefanos Zafeiriou +2

Machine learning has been progressively generalised to operate within non-Euclidean domains, but geometrically accurate methods for learning on surfaces are still falling behind. T…

cs.LG2026

From Data Statistics to Feature Geometry: How Correlations Shape Superposition

Lucas Prieto, Edward Stevinson, Melih Barsbey +2

A central idea in mechanistic interpretability is that neural networks represent more features than they have dimensions, arranging them in superposition to form an over-complete b…

cs.CV2026

TopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating Room

Tony Danjun Wang, Ka Young Kim, Tolga Birdal +2

Surgical Scene Graphs abstract the complexity of surgical operating rooms (OR) into a structure of entities and their relations, but existing paradigms suffer from strictly dyadic…

cs.CV2026

COMPOSE: Hypergraph Cover Optimization for Multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation

Tony Danjun Wang, Tolga Birdal, Nassir Navab +1

3D human pose estimation from sparse multi-view camera rigs is an essential task for numerous applications, including action recognition, sports analysis, and human-robot interacti…

cs.CV2025

MoLingo: Motion-Language Alignment for Text-to-Human Motion Generation

Yannan He, Garvita Tiwari, Xiaohan Zhang +4

We introduce MoLingo, a text-to-motion (T2M) model that generates realistic, lifelike human motion by denoising in a continuous latent space. Recent works perform latent space diff…

cs.LG2025

Fractional Diffusion Bridge Models

Gabriel Nobis, Maximilian Springenberg, Arina Belova +5

We present Fractional Diffusion Bridge Models (FDBM), a novel generative diffusion bridge framework driven by an approximation of the rich and non-Markovian fractional Brownian mot…

cs.CV2025

CuMPerLay: Learning Cubical Multiparameter Persistence Vectorizations

Caner Korkmaz, Brighton Nuwagira, Barış Coşkunuzer +1

We present CuMPerLay, a novel differentiable vectorization layer that enables the integration of Cubical Multiparameter Persistence (CMP) into deep learning pipelines. While CMP pr…

cs.CV2025

Quantum-enhanced Computer Vision: Going Beyond Classical Algorithms

Natacha Kuete Meli, Shuteng Wang, Marcel Seelbach Benkner +5

Quantum-enhanced Computer Vision (QeCV) is a new research field at the intersection of computer vision, optimisation theory, machine learning and quantum computing. It has high pot…

cs.LG2025

Adversarial Attacks Leverage Interference Between Features in Superposition

Edward Stevinson, Lucas Prieto, Melih Barsbey +1

Why do adversarial examples exist, and why do they transfer between models? Existing explanations appeal to high-dimensional geometry, non-robust patterns in the input, and decisio…

cs.CV2025

Geometric Neural Distance Fields for Learning Human Motion Priors

Zhengdi Yu, Simone Foti, Linguang Zhang +4

We introduce Neural Riemannian Motion Fields (NRMF), a novel 3D generative human motion prior that enables robust, temporally consistent, and physically plausible 3D motion recover…