Introduction to Geometric Learning in Python with Geomstats

Abstract

There is a growing interest in leveraging differential geometry in the machine learning community. Yet, the adoption of the associated geometric computations has been inhibited by the lack of a reference implementation. Such an implementation should typically allow its users: (i) to get intuition on concepts from differential geometry through a hands-on approach, often not provided by traditional textbooks; and (ii) to run geometric machine learning algorithms seamlessly, without delving into the mathematical details. To address this gap, we present the open-source Python package geomstats and introduce hands-on tutorials for differential geometry and geometric machine learning algorithms - Geometric Learning - that rely on it. Code and documentation: github.com/geomstats/geomstats and geomstats.ai.

Keywords:differential geometrystatisticsmanifoldmachine learning