Summary of Isometric Immersion Learning with Riemannian Geometry, by Zihao Chen et al.
Isometric Immersion Learning with Riemannian Geometry
by Zihao Chen, Wenyong Wang, Yu Xiang
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed isometric immersion learning method leverages Riemannian geometry principles to develop a neural network-based model that simultaneously performs metric and manifold learning. The model ensures distortion-free data representations, addressing a long-standing challenge in manifold learning. By integrating Riemannian geometry priors and employing maximum likelihood estimation for training, the method achieves superior performance on various 3-D geometry datasets compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Moreover, the learned Riemannian metric improves accuracy by an average of 8.8% when applied to real-world prediction tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way of learning data representations that keeps them unchanged, like how maps preserve distances and directions. This is called isometric immersion learning. The method uses special math from Riemannian geometry to create a neural network that learns both the structure of the data (manifold) and its distance properties (metric). This approach ensures that the learned representation doesn’t distort the original data. In experiments, the new method outperformed other approaches on various 3D shape datasets. Additionally, it improved accuracy by 8.8% when used for real-world prediction tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Likelihood » Manifold learning » Neural network
