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We present a framework for embedding graph structured data into a vector space, taking into account node features and topology of a graph into the optimal transport (OT) problem. Then we propose a novel distance between two graphs, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dai Hai Nguyen , Koji Tsuda

Recently, the Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport (GWOT) problem has attracted the special attention of the ML community. In this problem, given two distributions supported on two (possibly different) spaces, one has to find the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xavier Aramayo Carrasco , Maksim Nekrashevich , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

The sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has been widely recognized as a statistically effective and computationally efficient metric between two probability measures. A key component of the SW distance is the slicing distribution. There are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Khai Nguyen , Nhat Ho

Since the introduction of the Sliced Wasserstein distance in the literature, its simplicity and efficiency have made it one of the most interesting surrogate for the Wasserstein distance in image processing and machine learning. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Eloi Tanguy , Laetitia Chapel , Julie Delon

Dimension reduction techniques typically seek an embedding of a high-dimensional point cloud into a low-dimensional Euclidean space which optimally preserves the geometry of the input data. Based on expert knowledge, one may instead wish to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Ranthony A. Clark , Tom Needham , Thomas Weighill

Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) are widely used in machine learning for tasks such as clustering, classification, image reconstruction, and generative modeling. A key challenge in working with GMMs is defining a computationally efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Moritz Piening , Robert Beinert

Distribution data refers to a data set where each sample is represented as a probability distribution, a subject area receiving burgeoning interest in the field of statistics. Although several studies have developed…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-09 Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi

This paper considers the problem of regression over distributions, which is becoming increasingly important in machine learning. Existing approaches often ignore the geometry of the probability space or are computationally expensive. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maksim Maslov , Alexander Kugaevskikh , Matthew Ivanov

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance enables comparing metric measure spaces based solely on their internal structure, making it invariant to isomorphic transformations. This property is particularly useful for comparing datasets that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

Optimal transport between classical probability distributions has been proven useful in areas such as machine learning and random combinatorial optimization. Quantum optimal transport, and the quantum Wasserstein distance as the minimal…

The ability to align points across two related yet incomparable point clouds (e.g. living in different spaces) plays an important role in machine learning. The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) framework provides an increasingly popular answer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Meyer Scetbon , Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

As a valid metric of metric-measure spaces, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance has shown the potential for matching problems of structured data like point clouds and graphs. However, its application in practice is limited due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Mengyu Li , Jun Yu , Hongteng Xu , Cheng Meng

The mathematical forces at work behind Generative Adversarial Networks raise challenging theoretical issues. Motivated by the important question of characterizing the geometrical properties of the generated distributions, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-06 Arthur Stéphanovitch , Ugo Tanielian , Benoît Cadre , Nicolas Klutchnikoff , Gérard Biau

The Wasserstein distance is a metric on a space of probability measures that has seen a surge of applications in statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. However, statistical aspects of Wasserstein distances are bottlenecked…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato , Sloan Nietert , Gabriel Rioux

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance has gained increasing interest in the machine learning community in recent years, as it allows for the comparison of measures in different metric spaces. To overcome the limitations imposed by the equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yikun Bai , Rocio Diaz Martin , Abihith Kothapalli , Hengrong Du , Xinran Liu , Soheil Kolouri

Analyzing relationships between objects is a pivotal problem within data science. In this context, Dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques are employed to generate smaller and more manageable data representations. This paper proposes a new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Rafael P. Eufrazio , Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Charles C. Cavalcante

In the context of optimal transport methods, the subspace detour approach was recently presented by Muzellec and Cuturi (2019). It consists in building a nearly optimal transport plan in the measures space from an optimal transport plan in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Clément Bonet , Nicolas Courty , François Septier , Lucas Drumetz

We introduce a modified Benamou-Brenier type approach leading to a Wasserstein type distance that allows global invariance, specifically, isometries, and we show that the problem can be summarized to orthogonal transformations. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-24 Kevine Meugang Toukam

We propose a new algorithm that uses an auxiliary neural network to express the potential of the optimal transport map between two data distributions. In the sequel, we use the aforementioned map to train generative networks. Unlike WGANs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Vaios Laschos , Jan Tinapp , Klaus Obermayer

Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is a powerful tool for comparing and aligning probability distributions supported on different metric spaces. Recently, GW has become the main modeling technique for aligning heterogeneous data for a wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lemin Kong , Jiajin Li , Jianheng Tang , Anthony Man-Cho So