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The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance serves as a powerful tool for matching objects in metric spaces. However, its traditional formulation is constrained to pairwise matching between single objects, limiting its utility in scenarios and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Aryan Tajmir Riahi , Khanh Dao Duc

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

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

Wasserstein distance (WD) and the associated optimal transport plan have been proven useful in many applications where probability measures are at stake. In this paper, we propose a new proxy of the squared WD, coined min-SWGG, that is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Guillaume Mahey , Laetitia Chapel , Gilles Gasso , Clément Bonet , Nicolas Courty

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

Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is one of the most popular methods for dimensionality reduction and visualization of high dimensional data. Apart from these tasks, it also found applications in the field of geometry processing for the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Amit Boyarski , Alex M. Bronstein , Michael M. Bronstein

Data are not only ubiquitous in society, but are increasingly complex both in size and dimensionality. Dimension reduction offers researchers and scholars the ability to make such complex, high dimensional data spaces simpler and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Philip D. Waggoner

We introduce the supervised Gromov-Wasserstein (sGW) optimal transport, an extension of Gromov-Wasserstein by incorporating potential infinity patterns in the cost tensor. sGW enables the enforcement of application-induced constraints such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Zixuan Cang , Yaqi Wu , Yanxiang Zhao

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

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

Fused Gromov-Wasserstein (FGW) distances provide a principled framework for comparing objects by jointly aligning structure and node features. However, existing FGW formulations treat all features uniformly, which limits interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Harlin Lee , Ying Yu , Mingxin Li , Ranthony Clark

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

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…

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) problem is a variant of the classical optimal transport problem that allows one to compute meaningful transportation plans between incomparable spaces. At an intuitive level, it seeks plans that minimize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Hoang Anh Tran , Binh Tuan Nguyen , Yong Sheng Soh

The Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distance and its fused extension (FGW) are powerful tools for comparing heterogeneous data. Their computation is, however, challenging since both distances are based on non-convex, quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Moritz Piening , Robert Beinert

Hyperbolic representations have shown remarkable efficacy in modeling inherent hierarchies and complexities within data structures. Hyperbolic neural networks have been commonly applied for learning such representations from data, but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yifei Yang , Wonjun Lee , Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

Learning representations that capture both intrinsic data geometry and target-relevant structure remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in settings where data reduction must balance compression with predictive fidelity. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sai-Aakash Ramesh , Archit Sood , Andrew Corbett , Tim Dodwell

Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is continuing an active research field nowadays for high dimensional data. It aims to estimate the central subspace (CS) without making distributional assumption. To overcome the large-$p$-small-$n$…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-22 Hung Hung , Su-Yun Huang

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…

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