GPU library brings differentiable machine learning to spherical data

The authors implement spherical transforms, convolutions and attention as scalable PyTorch operations designed to preserve the geometry and rotational structure of spherical signals.

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Thorsten Kurth · Max Rietmann · Mauro Bisson · Andrea Paris · Alberto Carpentieri · Jean Kossaifi · +3 more

NVIDIA Corporation · California Institute of Technology

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Kurth and colleagues present torch-harmonics, an open-source library for signal processing and machine learning on spherical domains.

The authors built a PyTorch library for processing scalar and vector fields defined on the two-dimensional sphere.

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From NVIDIA Corporation and California Institute of Technology

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torch-harmonics provides efficient differentiable spherical harmonic transforms and ML operations on the sphere.

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