arXiv:2602.22873math.ATcs.AI2026-02

用自编码器构建流形的图册,可直接计算拓扑不变量并判断可定向性。

Learning Tangent Bundles and Characteristic Classes with Autoencoder Atlases

  • 将多图自编码器视为流形上的学习图册,通过过渡映射构造向量丛。
  • 通过过渡映射雅可比行列式符号计算第一施蒂费尔-惠特尼类,判断可定向性。
  • 揭示了最少图册数与流形覆盖结构的关系,适合拓扑学习研究者。

我们提出一个理论框架,将流形学习中的多图自编码器与经典向量丛及特征类理论相联系。不将自编码器视为生成单一全局欧氏嵌入,而是将一组局部训练的编码器-解码器对视为流形上的学习图册。我们证明,任何重建一致的自编码器图册自然定义满足叠胞条件的过渡映射;线性化这些过渡映射后得到的向量丛,在潜在维度等于流形内蕴维度时恰好为切丛。该构造使数据的微分拓扑不变量可直接获取。特别地,我们表明第一施蒂费尔-惠特尼类可通过学习到的过渡映射雅可比行列式的符号计算,从而给出可定向性的算法判据。同时,非平凡特征类提供了对单图表示的阻碍,且最小自编码器图册数由流形的良好覆盖结构决定。最后,我们将方法应用于低维可定向与不可定向流形,以及一个高维不可定向图像数据集。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We introduce a theoretical framework that connects multi-chart autoencoders in manifold learning with the classical theory of vector bundles and characteristic classes. Rather than viewing autoencoders as producing a single global Euclidean embedding, we treat a collection of locally trained encoder-decoder pairs as a learned atlas on a manifold. We show that any reconstruction-consistent autoencoder atlas canonically defines transition maps satisfying the cocycle condition, and that linearising these transition maps yields a vector bundle coinciding with the tangent bundle when the latent dimension matches the intrinsic dimension of the manifold. This construction provides direct access to differential-topological invariants of the data. In particular, we show that the first Stiefel-Whitney class can be computed from the signs of the Jacobians of learned transition maps, yielding an algorithmic criterion for detecting orientability. We also show that non-trivial characteristic classes provide obstructions to single-chart representations, and that the minimum number of autoencoder charts is determined by the good cover structure of the manifold. Finally, we apply our methodology to low-dimensional orientable and non-orientable manifolds, as well as to a non-orientable high-dimensional image dataset.

流形学习拓扑数据分析自编码器特征类

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。