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20242026
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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Riemannian Archetypal Analysis: Interpretable non-linear data analysis on deformed star distributions

Willem Diepeveen, Deanna Needell

Classical archetypal analysis is appealing for its interpretability, but its linear geometry can limit performance on data with strongly non-linear structure; at the same time, exi…

cs.LG2026

Riemannian AmbientFlow: Towards Simultaneous Manifold Learning and Generative Modeling from Corrupted Data

Willem Diepeveen, Oscar Leong

Modern generative modeling methods have demonstrated strong performance in learning complex data distributions from clean samples. In many scientific and imaging applications, howe…

math.OC2025

Iso-Riemannian Optimization on Learned Data Manifolds

Willem Diepeveen, Melanie Weber

We develop a theory of iso-Riemannian optimization for problems constrained to learned data manifolds, a setting in which classical Riemannian optimization - and Riemannian gradien…

cs.LG2025

Manifold Learning with Normalizing Flows: Towards Regularity, Expressivity and Iso-Riemannian Geometry

Willem Diepeveen, Deanna Needell

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis…

math.NA2025

Curvature Corrected Nonnegative Manifold Data Factorization

Joyce Chew, Willem Diepeveen, Deanna Needell

Data with underlying nonlinear structure are collected across numerous application domains, necessitating new data processing and analysis methods adapted to nonlinear domain struc…

math.DG2024

Pulling back symmetric Riemannian geometry for data analysis

Willem Diepeveen

Data sets tend to live in low-dimensional non-linear subspaces. Ideal data analysis tools for such data sets should therefore account for such non-linear geometry. The symmetric Ri…