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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Bariscan Yonel , Il-Young Son , Birsen Yazici

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

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is an effective measure of alignment between distributions supported on distinct ambient spaces. Calculating essentially the mutual departure from isometry, it has found vast usage in domain translation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-23 Anish Chakrabarty , Arkaprabha Basu , Swagatam Das

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

In this paper, we newly formulate and solve the optimal density control problem with Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) terminal cost in discrete-time linear Gaussian systems. Differently from the Wasserstein or Kullback-Leibler distances employed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Kohei Morimoto , Kenji Kashima

Aligning EM density maps and fitting atomic models are essential steps in single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), with recent methods leveraging various algorithms and machine learning tools. As aligning maps remains…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-03 Aryan Tajmir Riahi , Chenwei Zhang , James Chen , Anne Condon , Khanh Dao Duc

The Gibbons-Werner (GW) method is a powerful approach in studying the gravitational deflection of particles moving in curved spacetimes. The application of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem (GBT) to integral regions constructed in a two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Yang Huang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhenyan Lu

Due to its invariance to rigid transformations such as rotations and reflections, Procrustes-Wasserstein (PW) was introduced in the literature as an optimal transport (OT) distance, alternative to Wasserstein and more suited to tasks such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-02 Davide Adamo , Marco Corneli , Manon Vuillien , Emmanuelle Vila

The Wasserstein barycenter has been widely studied in various fields, including natural language processing, and computer vision. However, it requires a high computational cost to solve the Wasserstein barycenter problem because the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yuki Takezawa , Ryoma Sato , Zornitsa Kozareva , Sujith Ravi , Makoto Yamada

In many real-world contexts, such as social or transport networks, data exhibit both structural connectivity and node-level attributes. For example, roads in a transport network can be characterized not only by their connectivity but also…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Ioana Gavra , Ketsia Guichard-Sustowski , Loïc Le Marrec

Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) is a powerful tool to compare probability measures whose supports are in different metric spaces. GW suffers however from a computational drawback since it requires to solve a complex non-convex quadratic program. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-18 Tam Le , Nhat Ho , Makoto Yamada

Multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) is a generalization of optimal transport to multiple marginals. Optimal transport has evolved into an important tool in many machine learning applications, and its multi-marginal extension opens up for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

The Wasserstein space of probability measures is known for its intricate Riemannian structure, which underpins the Wasserstein geometry and enables gradient flow algorithms. However, the Wasserstein geometry may not be suitable for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Automatic scoring of student responses enhances efficiency in education, but deploying a separate neural network for each task increases storage demands, maintenance efforts, and redundant computations. To address these challenges, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Luyang Fang , Ehsan Latif , Haoran Lu , Yifan Zhou , Ping Ma , Xiaoming Zhai

We study first-order optimization algorithms for computing the barycenter of Gaussian distributions with respect to the optimal transport metric. Although the objective is geodesically non-convex, Riemannian GD empirically converges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Austin J. Stromme

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

Barycenter problems encode important geometric information about a metric space. While these problems are typically studied with positive weight coefficients associated to each distance term, more general signed Wasserstein barycenter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Matt Jacobs , Bohan Zhou

We present new algorithms to compute the mean of a set of empirical probability measures under the optimal transport metric. This mean, known as the Wasserstein barycenter, is the measure that minimizes the sum of its Wasserstein distances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-18 Marco Cuturi , Arnaud Doucet

Wasserstein barycenters provide a geometrically meaningful way to aggregate probability distributions, built on the theory of optimal transport. They are difficult to compute in practice, however, leading previous work to restrict their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Mikhail Yurochkin , Justin Solomon

We present a novel method for efficiently computing optimal transport maps and Wasserstein barycenters in high-dimensional spaces. Our approach uses conditional normalizing flows to approximate the input distributions as invertible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Gabriele Visentin , Patrick Cheridito