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In many applications, a dataset can be considered as a set of observed signals that live on an unknown underlying graph structure. Some of these signals may be seen as white noise that has been filtered on the graph topology by a graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Matthias Minder , Zahra Farsijani , Dhruti Shah , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Dynamic graphs are rife with higher-order interactions, such as co-authorship relationships and protein-protein interactions in biological networks, that naturally arise between more than two nodes at once. In spite of the ubiquitous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Manohar Kaul , Masaaki Imaizumi

Learning conditional distributions $\pi^*(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^*$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often…

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of an analogue of the Wasserstein distance for optimal transport on graphs that is defined via a discrete modification of the Benamou--Brenier formula. This approach involves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Matthias Erbar , Martin Rumpf , Bernhard Schmitzer , Stefan Simon

Learning under a Wasserstein loss, a.k.a. Wasserstein loss minimization (WLM), is an emerging research topic for gaining insights from a large set of structured objects. Despite being conceptually simple, WLM problems are computationally…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-07 Jianbo Ye , James Z. Wang , Jia Li

We define a novel class of distances between statistical multivariate distributions by modeling an optimal transport problem on their marginals with respect to a ground distance defined on their conditionals. These new distances are metrics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Frank Nielsen , Ke Sun

Neural Processes (NPs) are a class of models that learn a mapping from a context set of input-output pairs to a distribution over functions. They are traditionally trained using maximum likelihood with a KL divergence regularization term.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Andrew Carr , Jared Nielsen , David Wingate

Computationally solving multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) with squared Euclidean costs for $N$ discrete probability measures has recently attracted considerable attention, in part because of the correspondence of its solutions with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Johannes von Lindheim

We propose a novel approach to the problem of multilevel clustering, which aims to simultaneously partition data in each group and discover grouping patterns among groups in a potentially large hierarchically structured corpus of data. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Viet Huynh , Nhat Ho , Nhan Dam , XuanLong Nguyen , Mikhail Yurochkin , Hung Bui , and Dinh Phung

Traditional multi-view learning methods often rely on two assumptions: ($i$) the samples in different views are well-aligned, and ($ii$) their representations in latent space obey the same distribution. Unfortunately, these two assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Dixin Luo , Hongteng Xu , Lawrence Carin

This paper presents a novel distribution-agnostic Wasserstein distance-based estimation framework. The goal is to determine an optimal map combining prior estimate with measurement likelihood such that posterior estimation error optimally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Himanshu Prabhat , Raktim Bhattacharya

We propose the linear barycentric coding model (LBCM) which utilizes the linear optimal transport (LOT) metric for analysis and synthesis of probability measures. We provide a closed-form solution to the variational problem characterizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-09 Matthew Werenski , Brendan Mallery , Shuchin Aeron , James M. Murphy

Optimal transport (OT) provides effective tools for comparing and mapping probability measures. We propose to leverage the flexibility of neural networks to learn an approximate optimal transport map. More precisely, we present a new and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

Causal optimal transport and adapted Wasserstein distance have applications in different fields from optimization to mathematical finance and machine learning. The goal of this article is to provide equivalent formulations of these concepts…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Mathias Beiglböck , Susanne Pflügl , Stefan Schrott

Solving large scale Optimal Transport (OT) in machine learning typically relies on sampling measures to obtain a tractable discrete problem. While the discrete solver's accuracy is controllable, the rate of convergence of the discretization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Ferdinand Genans , Olivier Wintenberger

This short paper presents a general approach for computing robust Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams. The classical method consists in computing assignment arithmetic means after finding the optimal transport plans between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Keanu Sisouk , Eloi Tanguy , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

On the space of probability densities, we extend the Wasserstein geodesics to the case of higher-order interpolation such as cubic spline interpolation. After presenting the natural extension of cubic splines to the Wasserstein space, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Jean-David Benamou , Thomas Gallouët , François-Xavier Vialard

Adapting large-scale foundation models to new domains with limited supervision remains a fundamental challenge due to latent distribution mismatch, unstable optimization dynamics, and miscalibrated uncertainty propagation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut , Kuepon Auewattanapisut

Barycenter problems encode important geometric information about a metric space. While these problems are typically studied with positive weight coefficients associated to each distance term, more general signed Wasserstein barycenter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Matt Jacobs , Bohan Zhou

We study the inverse optimal control problem in social sciences: we aim at learning a user's true cost function from the observed temporal behavior. In contrast to traditional phenomenological works that aim to learn a generative model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Yichen Wang , Le Song , Hongyuan Zha
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