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12 papers

cs.LG2026

Comparing Chatbot Performance Enhanced with Persistent Homology

Nithisha Raghavaraju, Barbara Giunti, Bastian Rieck

Chatbots have become increasingly prevalent across various domains, offering automated assistance in many areas, especially mental health support. The training is done using extrem…

cs.LG2026

LEAP: Local ECT-Based Learnable Positional Encodings for Graphs

Juan Amboage, Ernst Röell, Patrick Schnider +1

Graph neural networks (GNNs) largely rely on the message-passing paradigm, where nodes iteratively aggregate information from their neighbors. Yet, standard message passing neural…

math.AT2026

Persistent Homology via Ellipsoids

Niklas Canova, Sara Kališnik, Aaron Moser +2

Persistent homology is one of the most popular methods in topological data analysis. An initial step in its use involves constructing a nested sequence of simplicial complexes. The…

cs.CV2026

Point Cloud Synthesis Using Inner Product Transforms

Ernst Röell, Bastian Rieck

Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have bee…

cs.LG2025

Molecular Machine Learning Using Euler Characteristic Transforms

Victor Toscano-Duran, Florian Rottach, Bastian Rieck

The shape of a molecule determines its physicochemical and biological properties. However, it is often underrepresented in standard molecular representation learning approaches. He…

cs.LG2025

Diss-l-ECT: Dissecting Graph Data with Local Euler Characteristic Transforms

Julius von Rohrscheidt, Bastian Rieck

The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is an efficiently-computable geometrical-topological invariant that characterizes the global shape of data. In this paper, we introduce the…