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We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…

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Latent variable models are powerful tools for learning low-dimensional manifolds from high-dimensional data. However, when dealing with constrained data such as unit-norm vectors or symmetric positive-definite matrices, existing approaches…

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We consider the problem of learning discriminative representations for data in a high-dimensional space with distribution supported on or around multiple low-dimensional linear subspaces. That is, we wish to compute a linear injective map…

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An increasing number of machine learning tasks deal with learning representations from set-structured data. Solutions to these problems involve the composition of permutation-equivariant modules (e.g., self-attention, or individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Navid Naderializadeh , Soheil Kolouri , Joseph F. Comer , Reed W. Andrews , Heiko Hoffmann

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have emerged as a powerful method for learning the mapping from noisy latent spaces to realistic data samples in high-dimensional space. So far, the development and application of GANs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-30 Atanas Mirchev , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi

Contrastive learning between different views of the data achieves outstanding success in the field of self-supervised representation learning and the learned representations are useful in broad downstream tasks. Since all supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Haoqing Wang , Xun Guo , Zhi-Hong Deng , Yan Lu

Despite the success of contrastive learning (CL) in vision and language, its theoretical foundations and mechanisms for building representations remain poorly understood. In this work, we build connections between noise contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Zihao Chen , Chi-Heng Lin , Ran Liu , Jingyun Xiao , Eva L Dyer

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

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

Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways. This variability is particularly valuable for in-the-wild multimodal retrieval, where the objective is to identify the corresponding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Fan Xu , Luis A. Leiva

Self-supervised learning converts raw perceptual data such as images to a compact space where simple Euclidean distances measure meaningful variations in data. In this paper, we extend this formulation by adding additional geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sharut Gupta , Joshua Robinson , Derek Lim , Soledad Villar , Stefanie Jegelka

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

Many numerical and learning algorithms rely on the solution of the Monge-Kantorovich problem and Wasserstein distances, which provide appropriate distributional metrics. While the natural approach is to treat the problem as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mohsen Sadr , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Hossein Gorji

Suppose we are given two metric spaces and a family of continuous transformations from one to the other. Given a probability distribution on each of these two spaces - namely the source and the target measures - the Wasserstein alignment…

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Machine unlearning aims to eliminate the influence of a subset of training samples (i.e., unlearning samples) from a trained model. Effectively and efficiently removing the unlearning samples without negatively impacting the overall model…

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The main objective of this study is to propose an optimal transport based semi-supervised approach to learn from scarce labelled image data using deep convolutional networks. The principle lies in implicit graph-based transductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Antoine Blais , Nicolas Couëllan

Representations that can compactly and effectively capture the temporal evolution of semantic content are important to computer vision and machine learning algorithms that operate on multi-variate time-series data. We investigate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Anoop Cherian , Suvrit Sra , Stephen Gould , Richard Hartley

Many existing transductive bounds rely on classical complexity measures that are computationally intractable and often misaligned with empirical behavior. In this work, we establish new representation-based generalization bounds in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 MoonJeong Park , Seungbeom Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Jaeseung Heo , Seunghyuk Cho , Shouheng Li , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

We introduce a weakly supervised method for representation learning based on aligning temporal sequences (e.g., videos) of the same process (e.g., human action). The main idea is to use the global temporal ordering of latent correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Isma Hadji , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Allan D. Jepson

Compressed sensing techniques enable efficient acquisition and recovery of sparse, high-dimensional data signals via low-dimensional projections. In this work, we propose Uncertainty Autoencoders, a learning framework for unsupervised…

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