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Multiple marginal matching problem aims at learning mappings to match a source domain to multiple target domains and it has attracted great attention in many applications, such as multi-domain image translation. However, addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jiezhang Cao , Langyuan Mo , Yifan Zhang , Kui Jia , Chunhua Shen , Mingkui Tan

Persistence diagrams (PD)s play a central role in topological data analysis. This analysis requires computing distances among such diagrams such as the $1$-Wasserstein distance. Accurate computation of these PD distances for large data sets…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tamal K. Dey , Simon Zhang

Optimal Transport has sparked vivid interest in recent years, in particular thanks to the Wasserstein distance, which provides a geometrically sensible and intuitive way of comparing probability measures. For computational reasons, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Eloi Tanguy

We construct a Wasserstein gradient flow of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and study its convergence properties. The MMD is an integral probability metric defined for a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), and serves as a metric on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-04 Michael Arbel , Anna Korba , Adil Salim , Arthur Gretton

1. Complex systems of moving and interacting objects are ubiquitous in the natural and social sciences. Predicting their behavior often requires models that mimic these systems with sufficient accuracy, while accounting for their inherent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-02 Jonathan R. Potts , Marie Auger-Méthé , Karl Mokross , Mark A. Lewis

The $2$-Wasserstein distance is sensitive to minor geometric differences between distributions, making it a very powerful dissimilarity metric. However, due to this sensitivity, a small outlier mass can also cause a significant increase in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sharath Raghvendra , Pouyan Shirzadian , Kaiyi Zhang

In contextual optimization, a decision-maker leverages contextual information, often referred to as covariates, to better resolve uncertainty and make informed decisions. In this paper, we examine the challenges of contextual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Tianyu Wang , Ningyuan Chen , Chun Wang

We introduce a novel geometric framework for separating the phase and the amplitude variability in functional data of the type frequently studied in growth curve analysis. This framework uses the Fisher-Rao Riemannian metric to derive a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Anuj Srivastava , Wei Wu , Sebastian Kurtek , Eric Klassen , J. S. Marron

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is an effective measure of alignment between distributions supported on distinct ambient spaces. Calculating essentially the mutual departure from isometry, it has found vast usage in domain translation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-23 Anish Chakrabarty , Arkaprabha Basu , Swagatam Das

Text similarity calculation is a fundamental problem in natural language processing and related fields. In recent years, deep neural networks have been developed to perform the task and high performances have been achieved. The neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yilin Niu , Chao Qiao , Hang Li , Minlie Huang

We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Washington Mio , Tom Needham

We present a novel feature matching algorithm that systematically utilizes the geometric properties of features such as position, scale, and orientation, in addition to the conventional descriptor vectors. In challenging scenes with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Sehyung Lee , Jongwoo Lim , Il Hong Suh

Canonical distances such as Euclidean distance often fail to capture the appropriate relationships between items, subsequently leading to subpar inference and prediction. Many algorithms have been proposed for automated learning of suitable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-24 Tyler M. Tomita , Joshua T. Vogelstein

The Wasserstein distance between mixing measures has come to occupy a central place in the statistical analysis of mixture models. This work proposes a new canonical interpretation of this distance and provides tools to perform inference on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Xin Bing , Florentina Bunea , Jonathan Niles-Weed

The Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) is being increasingly used in machine learning applications as an alternative to the Wasserstein distance and offers significant computational and statistical benefits. Since it is defined as an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-05 Kimia Nadjahi , Alain Durmus , Pierre E. Jacob , Roland Badeau , Umut Şimşekli

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

Learning to predict multi-label outputs is challenging, but in many problems there is a natural metric on the outputs that can be used to improve predictions. In this paper we develop a loss function for multi-label learning, based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Charlie Frogner , Chiyuan Zhang , Hossein Mobahi , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Tomaso Poggio

This contribution features an accelerated computation of the Sinkhorn's algorithm, which approximates the Wasserstein transportation distance, by employing nonequispaced fast Fourier transforms (NFFT). The algorithm proposed allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler , Daniel Potts

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (WDRO) optimizes against worst-case distributional shifts within a specified uncertainty set, leading to enhanced generalization on unseen adversarial examples, compared to standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shuang Liu , Yihan Wang , Yifan Zhu , Yibo Miao , Xiao-Shan Gao