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This article is a companion paper to our earlier work Miroshnikov et al. (2021) on fairness interpretability, which introduces bias explanations. In the current work, we propose a bias mitigation methodology based upon the construction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Alexey Miroshnikov , Konstandinos Kotsiopoulos , Ryan Franks , Arjun Ravi Kannan

Generative models and in particular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become very popular and powerful data generation tool. In recent years, major progress has been made in extending this concept into the quantum realm. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Wiktor Jurasz , Christian B. Mendl

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a very popular tool for implicitly learning high-dimensional probability distributions. Several improvements have been made to the original GAN formulation to address some of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Parimala Kancharla , Sumohana S. Channappayya

Dataset Distillation (DD) aims to generate a compact synthetic dataset that enables models to achieve performance comparable to training on the full large dataset, significantly reducing computational costs. Drawing from optimal transport…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Haoyang Liu , Yijiang Li , Tiancheng Xing , Peiran Wang , Vibhu Dalal , Luwei Li , Jingrui He , Haohan Wang

The Wasserstein distance is a powerful metric based on the theory of optimal transport. It gives a natural measure of the distance between two distributions with a wide range of applications. In contrast to a number of the common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Jung Hun Oh , Maryam Pouryahya , Aditi Iyer , Aditya P. Apte , Allen Tannenbaum , Joseph O. Deasy

A generalization of the Wasserstein metric, the integrated transportation distance, establishes a novel distance between probability kernels of Markov systems. This metric serves as the foundation for an efficient approximation technique,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zhengqi Lin , Andrzej Ruszczynski

This paper raises an implicit manifold learning perspective in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), by studying how the support of the learned distribution, modelled as a submanifold $\mathcal{M}_{\theta}$, perfectly match with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-01 Kry Yik Chau Lui , Yanshuai Cao , Maxime Gazeau , Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

The emergence of time-series foundation model research elevates the growing need to measure the (dis)similarity of time-series datasets. A time-series dataset similarity measure aids research in multiple ways, including model selection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hongjie Chen , Akshay Mehra , Josh Kimball , Ryan A. Rossi

We propose a stable, parallel approach to train Wasserstein Conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (W-CGANs) under the constraint of a fixed computational budget. Differently from previous distributed GANs training techniques,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Junqi Yin

We present a general duality result for Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization that holds for any Kantorovich transport cost, measurable loss function, and nominal probability distribution. Assuming an interchangeability principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Luhao Zhang , Jincheng Yang , Rui Gao

Domain shifts in the training data are common in practical applications of machine learning; they occur for instance when the data is coming from different sources. Ideally, a ML model should work well independently of these shifts, for…

The adapted Wasserstein distance is a metric for quantifying distributional uncertainty and assessing the sensitivity of stochastic optimization problems on time series data. A computationally efficient alternative to it, is provided by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Beatrice Acciaio , Songyan Hou , Gudmund Pammer

This paper studies the problem of distribution matching (DM), which is a fundamental machine learning problem seeking to robustly align two probability distributions. Our approach is established on a relaxed formulation, called partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zi-Ming Wang , Nan Xue , Ling Lei , Rebecka Jörnsten , Gui-Song Xia

This manuscript introduces a regression-type formulation for approximating the Perron-Frobenius Operator by relying on distributional snapshots of data. These snapshots may represent densities of particles. The Wasserstein metric is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We study the problem of distributional matrix completion: Given a sparsely observed matrix of empirical distributions, we seek to impute the true distributions associated with both observed and unobserved matrix entries. This is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-09 Jacob Feitelberg , Kyuseong Choi , Anish Agarwal , Raaz Dwivedi

Worst-case generation plays a critical role in evaluating robustness and stress-testing systems under distribution shifts, in applications ranging from machine learning models to power grids and medical prediction systems. We develop a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie , Linglingzhi Zhu , Yunqin Zhu

Generative networks have experienced great empirical successes in distribution learning. Many existing experiments have demonstrated that generative networks can generate high-dimensional complex data from a low-dimensional easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Biraj Dahal , Alex Havrilla , Minshuo Chen , Tuo Zhao , Wenjing Liao

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are pow- erful generative models based on providing feed- back to a generative network via a discriminator network. However, the discriminator usually as- sesses individual samples. This prevents the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Thomas Lucas , Corentin Tallec , Jakob Verbeek , Yann Ollivier

Diffusion generative models have emerged as powerful tools for producing synthetic data from an empirically observed distribution. A common approach involves simulating the time-reversal of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process initialized at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Valentin de Bortoli , Romuald Elie , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren , Jiacheng Zhang

Standard stochastic control methods assume that the probability distribution of uncertain variables is available. Unfortunately, in practice, obtaining accurate distribution information is a challenging task. To resolve this issue, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Insoon Yang