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Structured data, such as graphs, is vital in machine learning due to its capacity to capture complex relationships and interactions. In recent years, the Fused Gromov-Wasserstein (FGW) distance has attracted growing interest because it…

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We present a framework for embedding graph structured data into a vector space, taking into account node features and topology of a graph into the optimal transport (OT) problem. Then we propose a novel distance between two graphs, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dai Hai Nguyen , Koji Tsuda

Optimal transport theory has recently found many applications in machine learning thanks to its capacity for comparing various machine learning objects considered as distributions. The Kantorovitch formulation, leading to the Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-08 Titouan Vayer , Laetita Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

In many real-world contexts, such as social or transport networks, data exhibit both structural connectivity and node-level attributes. For example, roads in a transport network can be characterized not only by their connectivity but also…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Ioana Gavra , Ketsia Guichard-Sustowski , Loïc Le Marrec

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Comparing graphs by means of optimal transport has recently gained significant attention, as the distances induced by optimal transport provide both a principled metric between graphs as well as an interpretable description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 James S. Nagai , Ivan G. Costa , Michael T. Schaub

Current Graph Neural Networks (GNN) architectures generally rely on two important components: node features embedding through message passing, and aggregation with a specialized form of pooling. The structural (or topological) information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Titouan Vayer , Nicolas Courty

Optimal Transport is a theory that allows to define geometrical notions of distance between probability distributions and to find correspondences, relationships, between sets of points. Many machine learning applications are derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Titouan Vayer

The Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distance and its fused extension (FGW) are powerful tools for comparing heterogeneous data. Their computation is, however, challenging since both distances are based on non-convex, quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Moritz Piening , Robert Beinert

Searching by chemical and structural analogy is one of the most commonly used and successful approaches to materials discovery. However, formulating this task for algorithmic implementation raises the question of how we define similar…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Matthew A. H. Walker , Zibo Zhou , Junayd Ul Islam , Keith T. Butler

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub

Interactions and relations between objects may be pairwise or higher-order in nature, and so network-valued data are ubiquitous in the real world. The "space of networks", however, has a complex structure that cannot be adequately described…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Stephen Y Zhang , Fangfei Lan , Youjia Zhou , Agnese Barbensi , Michael P H Stumpf , Bei Wang , Tom Needham

Comparing structured objects such as graphs is a fundamental operation involved in many learning tasks. To this end, the Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, based on Optimal Transport (OT), has proven to be successful in handling the specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Titouan Vayer , Nicolas Courty

Comparing structured data from possibly different metric-measure spaces is a fundamental task in machine learning, with applications in, e.g., graph classification. The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) discrepancy formulates a coupling between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hongwei Jin , Zishun Yu , Xinhua Zhang

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) framework adapts ideas from optimal transport to allow for the comparison of probability distributions defined on different metric spaces. Scalable computation of GW distances and associated matchings on graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Samir Chowdhury , David Miller , Tom Needham

Recently used in various machine learning contexts, the Gromov-Wasserstein distance (GW) allows for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie in the same metric space. However, this Optimal Transport (OT) distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Laetitia Chapel , Nicolas Courty

Graph data augmentation has shown superiority in enhancing generalizability and robustness of GNNs in graph-level classifications. However, existing methods primarily focus on the augmentation in the graph signal space and the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xinyu Ma , Xu Chu , Yasha Wang , Yang Lin , Junfeng Zhao , Liantao Ma , Wenwu Zhu

We present a novel framework based on optimal transport for the challenging problem of comparing graphs. Specifically, we exploit the probabilistic distribution of smooth graph signals defined with respect to the graph topology. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille EL Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Optimal Transport has received much attention in Machine Learning as it allows to compare probability distributions by exploiting the geometry of the underlying space. However, in its original formulation, solving this problem suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Clément Bonet

Wasserstein distance (WD) and the associated optimal transport plan have been proven useful in many applications where probability measures are at stake. In this paper, we propose a new proxy of the squared WD, coined min-SWGG, that is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Guillaume Mahey , Laetitia Chapel , Gilles Gasso , Clément Bonet , Nicolas Courty
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