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Many machine learning methods have been recently developed to circumvent the high computational cost of the gradient-based topology optimization. These methods typically require extensive and costly datasets for training, have a difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mohammad Mahdi Behzadi , Horea T. Ilies

Dataset distillation seeks to synthesize a compact distilled dataset, enabling models trained on it to achieve performance comparable to models trained on the full dataset. Recent methods for large-scale datasets focus on matching global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xiao Cui , Yulei Qin , Wengang Zhou , Hongsheng Li , Houqiang Li

In standard generative deep learning models, such as autoencoders or GANs, the size of the parameter set is proportional to the complexity of the generated data distribution. A significant challenge is to deploy resource-hungry deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shreshth Tuli , Shikhar Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

Optimal transport provides a powerful framework for comparing measures while respecting the geometry of their support, but comes with an expensive computational cost, hindering its potential application to real world use cases. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pierre Houédry , Iskander Legheraba , Léo Buecher , Nicolas Courty

By adding entropic regularization, multi-marginal optimal transport problems can be transformed into tensor scaling problems, which can be solved numerically using the multi-marginal Sinkhorn algorithm. The main computational bottleneck of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Christoph Strössner , Daniel Kressner

Though generative adversarial networks (GANs) areprominent models to generate realistic and crisp images,they often encounter the mode collapse problems and arehard to train, which comes from approximating the intrinsicdiscontinuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Dongsheng An , Yang Guo , Min Zhang , Xin Qi , Na Lei , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

3D generative modeling is accelerating as the technology allowing the capture of geometric data is developing. However, the acquired data is often inconsistent, resulting in unregistered meshes or point clouds. Many generative learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Thomas Besnier , Sylvain Arguillère , Emery Pierson , Mohamed Daoudi

The unsupervised task of aligning two or more distributions in a shared latent space has many applications including fair representations, batch effect mitigation, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Existing flow-based approaches estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zeyu Zhou , Ziyu Gong , Pradeep Ravikumar , David I. Inouye

Flow Matching (FM) generative models offer efficient simulation-free training and deterministic sampling, but their practical deployment is challenged by high-precision parameter requirements. We adapt optimal transport (OT)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dara Varam , Diaa A. Abuhani , Imran Zualkernan , Raghad AlDamani , Lujain Khalil

We propose a new framework for formulating optimal transport distances between Markov chains. Previously known formulations studied couplings between the entire joint distribution induced by the chains, and derived solutions via a reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Sergio Calo , Anders Jonsson , Gergely Neu , Ludovic Schwartz , Javier Segovia-Aguas

We propose a manifold matching approach to generative models which includes a distribution generator (or data generator) and a metric generator. In our framework, we view the real data set as some manifold embedded in a high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang

The notion of entropy-regularized optimal transport, also known as Sinkhorn divergence, has recently gained popularity in machine learning and statistics, as it makes feasible the use of smoothed optimal transportation distances for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jérémie Bigot , Elsa Cazelles , Nicolas Papadakis

Generative networks implicitly approximate complex densities from their sampling with impressive accuracy. However, because of the enormous scale of modern datasets, this training process is often computationally expensive. We cast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Vincent Schellekens , Laurent Jacques

In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

We introduce the Sinkhorn treatment effect, an entropic optimal transport measure of divergence between counterfactual distributions. Unlike classical quantities such as the average treatment effect, this measure captures differences across…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Medha Agarwal , Alex Luedtke

The optimal transport (OT) problem has gained significant traction in modern machine learning for its ability to: (1) provide versatile metrics, such as Wasserstein distances and their variants, and (2) determine optimal couplings between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinran Liu , Rocío Díaz Martín , Yikun Bai , Ashkan Shahbazi , Matthew Thorpe , Akram Aldroubi , Soheil Kolouri

Learning conditional distributions is challenging because the desired outcome is not a single distribution but multiple distributions that correspond to multiple instances of the covariates. We introduce a novel neural entropic optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bao Nguyen , Binh Nguyen , Hieu Trung Nguyen , Viet Anh Nguyen

We present Optimal Transport GAN (OT-GAN), a variant of generative adversarial nets minimizing a new metric measuring the distance between the generator distribution and the data distribution. This metric, which we call mini-batch energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Tim Salimans , Han Zhang , Alec Radford , Dimitris Metaxas

Computing optimal transport (OT) distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. In this paper, we study the problem of approximating the general OT distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhao Song , Tianyi Zhou

This paper is devoted to the stochastic approximation of entropically regularized Wasserstein distances between two probability measures, also known as Sinkhorn divergences. The semi-dual formulation of such regularized optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot