Manifold-Matching Autoencoders
arXiv cs.LG / 3/18/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces Manifold-Matching Autoencoders (MMAE), a regularization technique that aligns latent-space pairwise distances to input-space distances using mean squared error.
- Because MMAE operates on pairwise distances rather than coordinates, it enables flexible, lower-dimensional representations of data.
- Experiments show MMAE outperforms similar regularization methods in preserving nearest-neighbor structures and topological features measured by persistent homology.
- MMAE provides a scalable approximation to Multi-Dimensional Scaling, offering a practical tool for manifold learning in unsupervised learning contexts.
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