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The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is an extension of the optimal transport problem that allows one to match objects between incomparable spaces. At its core, the GW distance is specified as the solution of a non-convex quadratic program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Junyu Chen , Binh T. Nguyen , Shang Hui Koh , Yong Sheng Soh

In many real-world applications data come as discrete metric spaces sampled around 1-dimensional filamentary structures that can be seen as metric graphs. In this paper we address the metric reconstruction problem of such filamentary…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Frédéric Chazal , Jian Sun

Hyperbolic representations have shown remarkable efficacy in modeling inherent hierarchies and complexities within data structures. Hyperbolic neural networks have been commonly applied for learning such representations from data, but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yifei Yang , Wonjun Lee , Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

As a valid metric of metric-measure spaces, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance has shown the potential for matching problems of structured data like point clouds and graphs. However, its application in practice is limited due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Mengyu Li , Jun Yu , Hongteng Xu , Cheng Meng

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance serves as a powerful tool for matching objects in metric spaces. However, its traditional formulation is constrained to pairwise matching between single objects, limiting its utility in scenarios and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Aryan Tajmir Riahi , Khanh Dao Duc

The Hausdorff distance is a measure of (dis-)similarity between two sets which is widely used in various applications. Most of the applied literature is devoted to the computation for sets consisting of a finite number of points. This has…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Daniel Kraft

Many geometric machine learning and image analysis applications, require a left-invariant metric on the 5D homogeneous space of 3D positions and orientations SE(3)/SO(2). This is done in Equivariant Neural Networks (G-CNNs), or in PDE-Based…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Remco Duits , Gijs Bellaard , Barbara Tumpach

In this paper, we apply the concept of asymptotic dimension to calculating Gromov-Hausdorff distances between some unbounded metric spaces. For example, we show that the Gromov--Hausdorff between $\mathbb{R}^2$ with the Euclidean metric and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ivan N. Mikhailov

Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold and let $X\subseteq M$. If the sample $X$ is sufficiently dense relative to the curvature of $M$, then the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between $X$ and $M$ is bounded from below by half their Hausdorff…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Henry Adams , Florian Frick , Sushovan Majhi , Nicholas McBride

It is proved that the Gromov-Hausdorff metric on the space of compact metric spaces considered up to an isometry is strictly intrinsic, i.e., the corresponding metric space is geodesic. In other words, each two points of this space (each…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Alexandr Ivanov , Nadezhda Nikolaeva , Alexey Tuzhilin

Geometric characteristics of metric spaces that appear in formulas of the Gromov--Hausdorff distances from these spaces to so-called simplexes, i.e., to the metric spaces, all whose non-zero distances are the same are studied. The…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-25 D. S. Grigor'ev , A. O. Ivanov , A. A. Tuzhilin

A fundamental challenge in data science is to match disparate point sets with each other. While optimal transport efficiently minimizes point displacements under a bijectivity constraint, it is inherently sensitive to rotations. Conversely,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Guillaume Houry , Jean Feydy , François-Xavier Vialard

In object detection, a well-defined similarity metric can significantly enhance model performance. Currently, the IoU-based similarity metric is the most commonly preferred choice for detectors. However, detectors using IoU as a similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Ziqian Guan , Xieyi Fu , Pengjun Huang , Hengyuan Zhang , Hubin Du , Yongtao Liu , Yinglin Wang , Qang Ma

It has been shown beneficial for many types of data which present an underlying hierarchical structure to be embedded in hyperbolic spaces. Consequently, many tools of machine learning were extended to such spaces, but only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Clément Bonet , Laetitia Chapel , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

We prove that the Gromov-Hausdorff distance from the circle with its geodesic metric to any simply connected geodesic space is never smaller than $\frac{\pi}{4}$. We also prove that this bound is tight through the construction of a simply…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Saúl Rodríguez Martín

Affine Grassmannian has been favored for expressing proximity between lines and planes due to its theoretical exactness in measuring distances among features. Despite this advantage, the existing method can only measure the proximity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jaeho Shin , Hyeonjae Gil , Junwoo Jang , Maani Ghaffari , Ayoung Kim

Computing intrinsic distances on discrete surfaces is at the heart of many minimization problems in geometry processing and beyond. Solving these problems is extremely challenging as it demands the computation of on-surface distances along…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yue Li , Logan Numerow , Bernhard Thomaszewski , Stelian Coros

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

Geometric consistency, i.e. the preservation of neighbourhoods, is a natural and strong prior in 3D shape matching. Geometrically consistent matchings are crucial for many downstream applications, such as texture transfer or statistical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Paul Roetzer , Florian Bernard

Inspired by the Kantorovich formulation of optimal transport distance between probability measures on a metric space, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distances comprise a family of metrics on the space of isomorphism classes of metric measure…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham