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Efficiently aggregating data from different sources is a challenging problem, particularly when samples from each source are distributed differently. These differences can be inherent to the inference task or present for other reasons:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Matthew Staib , Sebastian Claici , Justin Solomon , Stefanie Jegelka

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) transport problem is a relaxation of classic optimal transport, which seeks a transport between two measures while preserving their internal geometry. Due to meeting this theoretical underpinning, it is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert

We propose a new \cu{class-optimal} algorithm for the distributed computation of Wasserstein Barycenters over networks. Assuming that each node in a graph has a probability distribution, we prove that every node can reach the barycenter of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 César A. Uribe , Darina Dvinskikh , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

The Wasserstein barycenter extends the Euclidean mean to the space of probability measures by minimizing the weighted sum of squared 2-Wasserstein distances. We develop a free-support algorithm for computing Wasserstein barycenters that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-17 Kisung You

A Bayesian network is a widely used probabilistic graphical model with applications in knowledge discovery and prediction. Learning a Bayesian network (BN) from data can be cast as an optimization problem using the well-known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Zhenyu A. Liao , Charupriya Sharma , James Cussens , Peter van Beek

We study the problem of quantifying how far an empirical distribution deviates from Gaussianity under the framework of optimal transport. By exploiting the cone geometry of the relative translation invariant quadratic Wasserstein space, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Binshuai Wang , Peng Wei

In transfer learning, transferability is one of the most fundamental problems, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of arbitrary transfer tasks. Existing research focuses on classification tasks and neglects domain or task differences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qianshan Zhan , Xiao-Jun Zeng

We discuss the relation between the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between probability distributions on a metric space, arising in the study of Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, and the spectral distance of noncommutative geometry.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Andrea , Pierre Martinetti

We introduce an optimal transport topology on the space of probability measures over a fiber bundle, which penalizes the transport cost from one fiber to another. For simplicity, we illustrate our construction in the Euclidean case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Jan Peszek , David Poyato

The energy landscape of high-dimensional non-convex optimization problems is crucial to understanding the effectiveness of modern deep neural network architectures. Recent works have experimentally shown that two different solutions found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Damien Ferbach , Baptiste Goujaud , Gauthier Gidel , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Generative modeling typically concerns transporting a single source distribution to a target distribution via simple probability flows. However, in fields like computer graphics and single-cell genomics, samples themselves can be viewed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Doron Haviv , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Dana Pe'er , Brandon Amos

Persistent homology offers a powerful tool for extracting hidden topological signals from brain networks. It captures the evolution of topological structures across multiple scales, known as filtrations, thereby revealing topological…

Distribution-on-distribution regression considers the problem of formulating and estimating a regression relationship where both covariate and response are probability distributions. The optimal transport distributional regression model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Laya Ghodrati , Victor M. Panaretos

A novel variational inference based resampling framework is proposed to evaluate the robustness and generalization capability of deep learning models with respect to distribution shift. We use Auto Encoding Variational Bayes to find a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xudong Sun , Alexej Gossmann , Yu Wang , Bernd Bischl

Various statistical tasks, including sampling or computing Wasserstein barycenters, can be reformulated as fixed-point problems for operators on probability distributions. Accelerating standard fixed-point iteration schemes provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Vitalii Aksenov , Martin Eigel , Mathias Oster

We study the problem of model aggregation within the Wasserstein space for probability measures on the real line. Given a fixed finite collection of candidate probability models, we consider the associated class of Wasserstein barycenters…

Variational inference, such as the mean-field (MF) approximation, requires certain conjugacy structures for efficient computation. These can impose unnecessary restrictions on the viable prior distribution family and further constraints on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Rentian Yao , Yun Yang

We propose a model of optimal parallel transport between vector fields on a connection graph, which consists of a weighted graph along with a map from its edges to an orthogonal group. Inspired by the well-known equivalence of 1-Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sawyer Robertson , Dhruv Kohli , Gal Mishne , Alexander Cloninger

This paper provides a simple procedure to fit generative networks to target distributions, with the goal of a small Wasserstein distance (or other optimal transport costs). The approach is based on two principles: (a) if the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yucheng Chen , Matus Telgarsky , Chao Zhang , Bolton Bailey , Daniel Hsu , Jian Peng