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Learning embeddings of entities and relations existing in knowledge bases allows the discovery of hidden patterns in data. In this work, we examine the geometrical space's contribution to the task of knowledge base completion. We focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Prodromos Kolyvakis , Alexandros Kalousis , Dimitris Kiritsis

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric tool for comparing two distributions and has been employed in various machine learning applications. In this work, we propose a novel OT formulation that takes feature correlations into account…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Pratik Jawanpuria , N T V Satyadev , Bamdev Mishra

This paper proposes the use of the Hellinger--Kantorovich metric from unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) in a dimensionality reduction and learning (supervised and unsupervised) pipeline. The performance of UOT is compared to that of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Muhammad Rana , Keaton Hamm

Learning conditional distributions $\pi^*(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^*$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often…

Geometric representation learning has recently shown great promise in several machine learning settings, ranging from relational learning to language processing and generative models. In this work, we consider the problem of performing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-29 Gian Maria Marconi , Lorenzo Rosasco , Carlo Ciliberto

Hierarchical reinforcement learning deals with the problem of breaking down large tasks into meaningful sub-tasks. Autonomous discovery of these sub-tasks has remained a challenging problem. We propose a novel method of learning sub-tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Saket Tiwari , M. Prannoy

The relevance of optimal transport methods to machine learning has long been hindered by two salient limitations. First, the $O(n^3)$ computational cost of standard sample-based solvers (when used on batches of $n$ samples) is prohibitive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Meyer Scetbon , Michal Klein , Giovanni Palla , Marco Cuturi

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis posits that neural networks trained on different modalities converge toward a shared statistical model of the world. Recent work exploits this convergence by aligning frozen pretrained vision and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Simon Roschmann , Paul Krzakala , Sonia Mazelet , Quentin Bouniot , Zeynep Akata

Many machine learning problems involve data supported on curved spaces such as spheres, rotation groups, hyperbolic spaces, and general Riemannian manifolds, where Euclidean geometry can distort distances, averages, and the resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Alessandro Micheli , Silvia Sapora , Anthea Monod , Samir Bhatt

During training, supervised object detection tries to correctly match the predicted bounding boxes and associated classification scores to the ground truth. This is essential to determine which predictions are to be pushed towards which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Henri De Plaen , Pierre-François De Plaen , Johan A. K. Suykens , Marc Proesmans , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

Optimal Transport (OT) has proven effective for domain adaptation (DA) by aligning distributions across domains with differing statistical properties. Building on the approach of Courty et al. (2016), who mapped source data to the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 Brian Britos , Mathias Bourel

Words are not created equal. In fact, they form an aristocratic graph with a latent hierarchical structure that the next generation of unsupervised learned word embeddings should reveal. In this paper, justified by the notion of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Alexandru Tifrea , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea

We study the use of amortized optimization to predict optimal transport (OT) maps from the input measures, which we call Meta OT. This helps repeatedly solve similar OT problems between different measures by leveraging the knowledge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Brandon Amos , Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Ievgen Redko

Label inventories for fine-grained entity typing have grown in size and complexity. Nonetheless, they exhibit a hierarchical structure. Hyperbolic spaces offer a mathematically appealing approach for learning hierarchical representations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Federico López , Michael Strube

Signed network embedding methods aim to learn vector representations of nodes in signed networks. However, existing algorithms only managed to embed networks into low-dimensional Euclidean spaces whereas many intrinsic features of signed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Wenzhuo Song , Hongxu Chen , Xueyan Liu , Hongzhe Jiang , Shengsheng Wang

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Cross-domain alignment between image objects and text sequences is key to many visual-language tasks, and it poses a fundamental challenge to both computer vision and natural language processing. This paper investigates a novel approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Siyang Yuan , Ke Bai , Liqun Chen , Yizhe Zhang , Chenyang Tao , Chunyuan Li , Guoyin Wang , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. In this regard, OT between tractable prior distribution and data has been utilized for generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Embedded topic models are able to learn interpretable topics even with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. However, they generally hold the Euclidean embedding space assumption, leading to a basic limitation in capturing hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yishi Xu , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Zhibin Duan , Mingyuan Zhou

Learning graph representations via low-dimensional embeddings that preserve relevant network properties is an important class of problems in machine learning. We here present a novel method to embed directed acyclic graphs. Following prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Gary Bécigneul , Thomas Hofmann