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Point convolution is an essential operation when designing a network on point clouds for these tasks, which helps to explore 3D local points for feature learning. In this paper, we propose a novel point convolution (PSConv) using separable weights learned with polynomials for 3D point cloud analysis. Specifically, we generalize the traditional convolution defined on the regular data to a 3D point cloud by learning the point convolution kernels based on the polynomials of transformed local point coordinates. We further propose a separable assumption on the convolution kernels to reduce the parameter size and computational cost for our point convolution. Using this novel point convolution, a hierarchical network (PSNet) defined on the point cloud is proposed for 3D shape analysis tasks such as 3D shape classification and segmentation. 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