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We propose min Generalized Sliced Gromov--Wasserstein (min-GSGW), a sliced formulation for the Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) problem using expressive generalized slicers. The key idea is to learn coupled nonlinear slicers that assign compatible…

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Retinal fundus photography is indispensable for ophthalmic screening and diagnosis, yet image quality is often degraded by noise, artifacts, and uneven illumination. Recent GAN- and diffusion-based enhancement methods improve perceptual…

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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

We propose a new approach for unsupervised alignment of heterogeneous datasets, which maps data from two different domains without any known correspondences to a common metric space. Our method is based on an unbalanced optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Florian Beier , Moritz Piening , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

We present a novel framework based on optimal transport for the challenging problem of comparing graphs. Specifically, we exploit the probabilistic distribution of smooth graph signals defined with respect to the graph topology. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille EL Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Multi-view data analysis seeks to integrate multiple representations of the same samples in order to recover a coherent low-dimensional structure. Classical approaches often rely on feature concatenation or explicit alignment assumptions,…

Feature alignment methods are used in many scientific disciplines for data pooling, annotation, and comparison. As an instance of a permutation learning problem, feature alignment presents significant statistical and computational…

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Dictionary learning is a key tool for representation learning, that explains the data as linear combination of few basic elements. Yet, this analysis is not amenable in the context of graph learning, as graphs usually belong to different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Nicolas Courty

Cross-lingual or cross-domain correspondences play key roles in tasks ranging from machine translation to transfer learning. Recently, purely unsupervised methods operating on monolingual embeddings have become effective alignment tools.…

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In this paper, we introduce a variant of optimal transport adapted to the causal structure given by an underlying directed graph $G$. Different graph structures lead to different specifications of the optimal transport problem. For…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Patrick Cheridito , Stephan Eckstein

We study the optimal transport (OT) problem for measures supported on a graph metric space. Recently, Le et al. (2022) leverage the graph structure and propose a variant of OT, namely Sobolev transport (ST), which yields a closed-form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Kenji Fukumizu

The Gromov-Wasserstein distance is a notable extension of optimal transport. In contrast to the classic Wasserstein distance, it solves a quadratic assignment problem that minimizes the pair-wise distance distortion under the transportation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wei Zhang , Zihao Wang , Jie Fan , Hao Wu , Yong Zhang

A connected undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ is lower conformally rigid if uniform edge weights maximize the second smallest Laplacian eigenvalue $\lambda_2(w)$ over all normalized edge weights $w$, and upper conformally rigid if uniform edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Andrew Niu

Entity alignment is the task of identifying corresponding entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs). Although recent embedding-based entity alignment methods have shown significant advancements, they still struggle to fully utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jianheng Tang , Kangfei Zhao , Jia Li

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a central tool in data sciences to compare in a geometrically faithful way point clouds and more generally probability distributions. The wide adoption of OT into existing data analysis and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

We introduce a theoretical framework for performing statistical tasks---including, but not limited to, averaging and principal component analysis---on the space of (possibly asymmetric) matrices with arbitrary entries and sizes. This is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Samir Chowdhury , Tom Needham

This note gives a self-contained overview of some important properties of the Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, compared with the standard linear optimal transport (OT) framework. More specifically, I explore the following questions: are GW…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Titouan Vayer

The ability to represent and compare machine learning models is crucial in order to quantify subtle model changes, evaluate generative models, and gather insights on neural network architectures. Existing techniques for comparing data…

Multimodal Attributed Graphs (MAGs) have been widely adopted for modeling complex systems by integrating multi-modal information, such as text and images, on nodes. However, we identify a discrepancy between the implicit semantic structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yilong Zuo , Xunkai Li , Zhihan Zhang , Qiangqiang Dai , Ronghua Li , Guoren Wang

The first law of geography is a cornerstone of spatial analysis, emphasizing that nearby and related locations tend to be more similar, however, defining what constitutes "near" and "related" remains challenging, as different phenomena…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-02 M. Naser Lessani , Zhenlong Li , Manzhu Yu , Helen Greatrex , Chan Shen