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The sliced Wasserstein metric compares probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by taking averages of the Wasserstein distances between projections of the measures to lines. The distance has found a range of applications in statistics and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Sangmin Park , Dejan Slepčev

We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Nhat Ho

The Gromov-Wasserstein distance is a notable extension of optimal transport. In contrast to the classic Wasserstein distance, it solves a quadratic assignment problem that minimizes the pair-wise distance distortion under the transportation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wei Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jie Fan , Hao Wu , Yong Zhang

Gaussian smoothed sliced Wasserstein distance has been recently introduced for comparing probability distributions, while preserving privacy on the data. It has been shown that it provides performances similar to its non-smoothed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Maxime Berar , Gilles Gasso

Multi-marginal optimal transport enables one to compare multiple probability measures, which increasingly finds application in multi-task learning problems. One practical limitation of multi-marginal transport is computational scalability…

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

The assignment problem, a cornerstone of operations research, seeks an optimal one-to-one mapping between agents and tasks to minimize total cost. This work traces its evolution from classical formulations and algorithms to modern optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Iman Seyedi , Antonio Candelieri , Enza Messina , Francesco Archetti

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

We introduce sliced optimal transport dataset distance (s-OTDD), a model-agnostic, embedding-agnostic approach for dataset comparison that requires no training, is robust to variations in the number of classes, and can handle disjoint label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Tuan Pham , Nhat Ho

Generalized sliced Wasserstein distance is a variant of sliced Wasserstein distance that exploits the power of non-linear projection through a given defining function to better capture the complex structures of the probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-20 Dung Le , Huy Nguyen , Khai Nguyen , Trang Nguyen , Nhat Ho

Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) is a powerful tool to compare probability measures whose supports are in different metric spaces. GW suffers however from a computational drawback since it requires to solve a complex non-convex quadratic program. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-18 Tam Le , Nhat Ho , Makoto Yamada

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

Optimal transport distances, otherwise known as Wasserstein distances, have recently drawn ample attention in computer vision and machine learning as a powerful discrepancy measure for probability distributions. The recent developments on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Soheil Kolouri , Yang Zou , Gustavo K. Rohde

The Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) is a computationally efficient and theoretically grounded alternative to the Wasserstein distance. Yet, the literature on its statistical properties -- or, more accurately, its generalization properties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Ruben Ohana , Kimia Nadjahi , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Liva Ralaivola

The Gromov-Wasserstein distances were proposed a few years ago to compare distributions which do not lie in the same space. In particular, they offer an interesting alternative to the Wasserstein distances for comparing probability measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Antoine Salmona , Julie Delon , Agnès Desolneux

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has been widely used in different application scenarios since it can be scaled to a large number of supports without suffering from the curse of dimensionality. The value of sliced Wasserstein distance is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-07 Khai Nguyen , Tongzheng Ren , Huy Nguyen , Litu Rout , Tan Nguyen , Nhat Ho

Gaussian mixture models (GMM) are powerful parametric tools with many applications in machine learning and computer vision. Expectation maximization (EM) is the most popular algorithm for estimating the GMM parameters. However, EM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Soheil Kolouri , Gustavo K. Rohde , Heiko Hoffmann

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

Comparing probability measures modulo unknown rigid transformations is a central challenge in geometric data analysis. Classical optimal transport (OT) distances, including Wasserstein and sliced Wasserstein, are sensitive to rotations and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zakk Heile , Peilin He , Jayson Tran , Alice Wang , Shrikant Chand

Wasserstein distances are increasingly used in a wide variety of applications in machine learning. Sliced Wasserstein distances form an important subclass which may be estimated efficiently through one-dimensional sorting operations. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-08 Mark Rowland , Jiri Hron , Yunhao Tang , Krzysztof Choromanski , Tamas Sarlos , Adrian Weller