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 The current focus is on the **//assignment manifold//** and image labeling, and on learning from image assignments in large-scale unsupervised scenarios, within the mathematical frameworks of information geometry and regularised optimal transport. A novel smooth dynamical system evolving on a statistical manifold, called **//assignment flow//**, forms the basis of our work.
-**Mathematical aspects.** The assignment flow evolves non-locally for any data given on a graph. Variational aspects, extensions to continuous domains and scale separation are investigated. A preliminary step concerns a more classical //additive// variational formulation that provides a smooth geometric version of the continuous cut approach.
+**Mathematical aspects.** The assignment flow evolves non-locally for any data given on a graph. Geometric and variational aspects, extensions to continuous domains, scale separation and models of knowledge representation across the scales are investigated.
+A preliminary extension from graphs to the continuous domain in the `zero-scale limit' (local interaction only) reveals the interplay between the underlying geometry and variational aspects.
+  * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07287|Continuous-Domain Assignment Flow, preprint arXiv:1910.07287]].
+A a more classical //additive// variational reformulation provides a smooth geometric version of the continuous cut approach.
   * [[https://ipa.math.uni-heidelberg.de/dokuwiki/Papers/Savarino2019aa.pdf|A Variational Perspective on the Assignment Flow, SSVM 2019]].
-**Parameter learning.** We study how weights for geometric diffusion that parametrize the adaptivity of the assignment flow can be learned from data. Symplectic integration ensures the commutativity of discretisation and optimisation operations. We currently investigate this approach in connection with more general objective functions.
+**Parameter learning.** We study how weights for geometric diffusion that parametrize the adaptivity of the assignment flow can be learned from data. Symplectic integration ensures the commutativity of discretisation and optimisation operations. Results reveal the steerability of the assignment flow and its potential for pattern //formation//.
-  * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09976|Learning Adaptive Regularization for Image Labeling Using Geometric Assignment, preprint: arXiv:1910.09976]]
+  * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09976|Learning Adaptive Regularization for Image Labeling Using Geometric Assignment, preprint arXiv:1910.09976]]
   * [[https://ipa.math.uni-heidelberg.de/dokuwiki/Papers/Huhnerbein2019aa.pdf|Conference version, SSVM 2019]].
-**Unsupervised label learning.** Our recent work concerns the emergence of labels in a completely unsupervised way by data //self//-assignment. The resulting unsupervised assignment flow has connections to low-rank matrix factorisation and discrete optimal mass transport that are explored in our current work.
+**Unsupervised label learning.** Our recent work concerns the emergence of labels in a completely unsupervised way by data //self//-assignment. The resulting //self-assignment flow// has connections to low-rank matrix factorisation and discrete optimal mass transport that are explored in our current work.
+  * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03472|Self-Assignment Flows for Unsupervised Data Labeling on Graphs; preprint: arXiv:1911.03472]]
   * [[https://ipa.math.uni-heidelberg.de/dokuwiki/Papers/Zisler2019aa.pdf|Unsupervised Labeling by Geometric and Spatially Regularized Self-Assignment, SSVM 2019]].
 We extended the assignment flow to //unsupervised// scenarios, where label evolution on a feature manifold is simultaneously performed together with label assignment to given data. The following papers introduce the corresponding //unsupervised assignment flow//.
-  * [[https://ipa.math.uni-heidelberg.de/dokuwiki/Papers/Zern2019aa.pdf|Unsupervised Assignment Flow: Label Learning on Feature Manifolds by Spatially Regularized Geometric Assignment, preprint: arXiv:1904.10863]]
+  * [[https://ipa.math.uni-heidelberg.de/dokuwiki/Papers/Zern2019aa.pdf|Unsupervised Assignment Flow: Label Learning on Feature Manifolds by Spatially Regularized Geometric Assignment, preprint arXiv:1904.10863]]
   * [[https://ipa.math.uni-heidelberg.de/dokuwiki/Papers/gcpr2018.pdf|Unsupervised Label Learning on Manifolds by Spatially Regularized Geometric Assignment, GCPR 2018]].