Unsupervised Co-Learning on G-Manifolds Across Irreducible Representations

Yifeng Fan, Tingran Gao, Zhizhen Zhao

Abstract:

We introduce a novel co-learning paradigm for manifolds naturally admitting an
action of a transformation group G, motivated by recent developments on learning a
manifold from attached fibre bundle structures. We utilize a representation theoretic
mechanism that canonically associates multiple independent vector bundles over
a common base manifold, which provides multiple views for the geometry of the
underlying manifold. The consistency across these fibre bundles provide a common
base for performing unsupervised manifold co-learning through the redundancy
created artificially across irreducible representations of the transformation group.
We demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed algorithmic paradigm through drastically improved robust nearest neighbor identification in cryo-electron microscopy image analysis and the clustering accuracy in community detection