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We introduce a new method for training generative adversarial networks by applying the Wasserstein-2 metric proximal on the generators. The approach is based on Wasserstein information geometry. It defines a parametrization invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Alex Tong Lin , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Guido Montufar

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has recently achieved empirical success for various applications in operations research and machine learning, owing partly to its regularization effect. Although connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Rui Gao , Xi Chen , Anton J. Kleywegt

We consider a data-driven robust hypothesis test where the optimal test will minimize the worst-case performance regarding distributions that are close to the empirical distributions with respect to the Wasserstein distance. This leads to a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Liyan Xie , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances have been recently proposed to summarize and learn from probability measures. Despite being conceptually simple, such problems are computationally challenging because they involve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-26 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

Super-resolution techniques have the potential to reduce the computational cost of cosmological and astrophysical simulations. This can be achieved by enabling traditional simulation methods to run at lower resolution and then efficiently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 John Brennan , Sreedhar Balu , Yuxiang Qin , John Regan , Chris Power

Image reconstruction based on an edge-sparsity assumption has become popular in recent years. Many methods of this type are capable of reconstructing nearly perfect edge-sparse images using limited data. In this paper, we present a method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-04 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Single image super-resolution (SISR) aims to reconstruct a high-resolution image from its low-resolution observation. Recent deep learning-based SISR models show high performance at the expense of increased computational costs, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hongjae Lee , Jun-Sang Yoo , Seung-Won Jung

In this paper we present a tractable approach for regularizing randomly placed points, by splitting them into two subsets: the first is generated by means of the Mat\'ern hard-core point process, while the remaining points constitute the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Akram Al-Hourani , Bill Moran , Sithamparanathan Kandeepan

We present a pixel recursive super resolution model that synthesizes realistic details into images while enhancing their resolution. A low resolution image may correspond to multiple plausible high resolution images, thus modeling the super…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Ryan Dahl , Mohammad Norouzi , Jonathon Shlens

Given a cloud of $n$ data points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, consider all projections onto $m$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^d$ and, for each such projection, the empirical distribution of the projected points. What does this collection of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-06 Andrea Montanari , Kangjie Zhou

Image superresolution involves the processing of an image sequence to generate a still image with higher resolution. Classical approaches, such as bayesian MAP methods, require iterative minimization procedures, with high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Carlos Miravet , Francisco B. Rodriguez

Popular convolutional neural networks mainly use paired images in a supervised way for image watermark removal. However, watermarked images do not have reference images in the real world, which results in poor robustness of image watermark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Tiancai Jiao , Wangmeng Zuo , Yanning Zhang , Chia-Wen Lin

Recent Reference-Based image super-resolution (RefSR) has improved SOTA deep methods introducing attention mechanisms to enhance low-resolution images by transferring high-resolution textures from a reference high-resolution image. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Esteban Reyes-Saldana , Mariano Rivera

We present an explicit deep neural network construction that transforms uniformly distributed one-dimensional noise into an arbitrarily close approximation of any two-dimensional Lipschitz-continuous target distribution. The key ingredient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Dmytro Perekrestenko , Stephan Müller , Helmut Bölcskei

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) suffers from inherent limitations that can degrade the quality of reconstructed results, such as noise, artifacts and incomplete data acquisition caused by sparse sampling or partial array detection. In this…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yu Zhang , Shuang Li , Yibing Wang , Yu Sun , Wenyi Xiang

Quantizing images into discrete representations has been a fundamental problem in unified generative modeling. Predominant approaches learn the discrete representation either in a deterministic manner by selecting the best-matching token or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jiahui Zhang , Fangneng Zhan , Christian Theobalt , Shijian Lu

In this paper, we propose a local squared Wasserstein-2 (W_2) method to solve the inverse problem of reconstructing models with uncertain latent variables or parameters. A key advantage of our approach is that it does not require prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-12 Mingtao Xia , Qijing Shen

In this work, we propose a sparse transformer architecture that incorporates prior information about the underlying data distribution directly into the transformer structure of the neural network. The design of the model is motivated by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Fuqun Han , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We introduce the Wasserstein Transform (WT), a general unsupervised framework for updating distance structures on given data sets with the purpose of enhancing features and denoising. Our framework represents each data point by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kun Jin , Facundo Mémoli , Zane Smith , Zhengchao Wan

We consider distributionally robust optimization problems where the uncertainty is modeled via a structured Wasserstein ambiguity set. Specifically, the ambiguity is restricted to product measures $P^{\otimes N}$, where $P$ lies within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Andrey Kharitenko , Marta Fochesato , Anastasios Tsiamis , Niklas Schmid , John Lygeros