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Poster
Ultrahyperbolic Representation Learning
Marc Law · Jos Stam

Wed Dec 09 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PST) @ Poster Session 4 #1165

In machine learning, data is usually represented in a (flat) Euclidean space where distances between points are along straight lines. Researchers have recently considered more exotic (non-Euclidean) Riemannian manifolds such as hyperbolic space which is well suited for tree-like data. In this paper, we propose a representation living on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of constant nonzero curvature. It is a generalization of hyperbolic and spherical geometries where the nondegenerate metric tensor need not be positive definite. We provide the necessary learning tools in this geometry and extend gradient-based optimization techniques. More specifically, we provide closed-form expressions for distances via geodesics and define a descent direction to minimize some objective function. Our novel framework is applied to graph representations.

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Marc Law (NVIDIA)
Jos Stam (NVIDIA)

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