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The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is frequently used in machine learning to compare distributions across distinct metric spaces. Despite its utility, it remains computationally intensive, especially for large-scale problems. Recently, a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-01 Antoine Salmona , Julie Delon , Agnès Desolneux

The Gromov-Wasserstein distances were proposed a few years ago to compare distributions which do not lie in the same space. In particular, they offer an interesting alternative to the Wasserstein distances for comparing probability measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Antoine Salmona , Julie Delon , Agnès Desolneux

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is a powerful tool for comparing metric measure spaces which has found broad applications in data science and machine learning. Driven by the need to analyze datasets whose objects have increasingly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Martin Bauer , Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

Recently, two concepts from optimal transport theory have successfully been brought to the Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) setting. This introduces a linear version of the GW distance and multi-marginal GW transport. The former can reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) variant of optimal transport, designed to compare probability densities defined over distinct metric spaces, has emerged as an important tool for the analysis of data with complex structure, such as ensembles of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-15 Mary Chriselda Antony Oliver , Emmanuel Hartman , Tom Needham

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distances define a family of metrics, based on ideas from optimal transport, which enable comparisons between probability measures defined on distinct metric spaces. They are particularly useful in areas such as…

Gromov-Wasserstein distance has found many applications in machine learning due to its ability to compare measures across metric spaces and its invariance to isometric transformations. However, in certain applications, this invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pinar Demetci , Quang Huy Tran , Ievgen Redko , Ritambhara Singh

Gromov-Wasserstein distances are generalization of Wasserstein distances, which are invariant under distance preserving transformations. Although a simplified version of optimal transport in Wasserstein spaces, called linear optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, rooted in optimal transport (OT) theory, quantifies dissimilarity between metric measure spaces and provides a framework for aligning heterogeneous datasets. While computational aspects of the GW…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distances are combinations of Gromov-Hausdorff and Wasserstein distances that allow the comparison of two different metric measure spaces (mm-spaces). Due to their invariance under measure- and distance-preserving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

This paper focuses on a similarity measure, known as the Wasserstein distance, with which to compare images. The Wasserstein distance results from a partial differential equation (PDE) formulation of Monge's optimal transport problem. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Michael Snow , Jan Van lent

Optimal transport theory has recently found many applications in machine learning thanks to its capacity for comparing various machine learning objects considered as distributions. The Kantorovitch formulation, leading to the Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-08 Titouan Vayer , Laetita Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

Recently used in various machine learning contexts, the Gromov-Wasserstein distance (GW) allows for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie in the same metric space. However, this Optimal Transport (OT) distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Laetitia Chapel , Nicolas Courty

The collection $\mathcal{M}$ of all isometry classes of compact metric spaces endowed with the Gromov-Hausdorff distance $d_\mathcal{GH}$ is known to be a geodesic space. However, there is no known structural characterization of geodesics…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Facundo Mémoli , Zhengchao Wan

Comparing metric measure spaces (i.e. a metric space endowed with aprobability distribution) is at the heart of many machine learning problems. The most popular distance between such metric measure spaces is theGromov-Wasserstein (GW)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

Comparing graphs by means of optimal transport has recently gained significant attention, as the distances induced by optimal transport provide both a principled metric between graphs as well as an interpretable description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 James S. Nagai , Ivan G. Costa , Michael T. Schaub

This paper focuses on the Monge-Kantorovich formulation of the optimal transport problem and the associated $L^2$ Wasserstein distance. We use the $L^2$ Wasserstein distance in the Nearest Neighbour (NN) machine learning architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Michael Snow , Jan Van lent

We propose a novel approach for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie on the same metric space. Unlike Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance which compares pairwise distances of elements from each distribution, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-23 Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Maxime Bérar , Gilles Gasso , Alain Rakotomamonjy
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