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The optimal transport (OT) map offers the most economical way to transfer one probability measure distribution to another. Classical OT theory does not involve a discussion of preserving topological connections and orientations in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yuping Lv , Qi Zhao , Xuebin Chang , Wei Zeng

Optimal Transport is a theory that allows to define geometrical notions of distance between probability distributions and to find correspondences, relationships, between sets of points. Many machine learning applications are derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Titouan Vayer

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

Johnson-Lindenstrauss embeddings are widely used to reduce the dimension and thus the processing time of data. To reduce the total complexity, also fast algorithms for applying these embeddings are necessary. To date, such fast algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Stefan Bamberger , Felix Krahmer

Manifold learning is a hot research topic in the field of computer science and has many applications in the real world. A main drawback of manifold learning methods is, however, that there is no explicit mappings from the input data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Hong Qiao , Peng Zhang , Di Wang , Bo Zhang

The emergence of low-cost sensor architectures for diverse modalities has made it possible to deploy sensor arrays that capture a single event from a large number of vantage points and using multiple modalities. In many scenarios, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-09 Mark A. Davenport , Chinmay Hegde , Marco F. Duarte , Richard G. Baraniuk

We propose a novel approach based on optimal transport (OT) for tackling the problem of highly mixed data in blind hyperspectral unmixing. Our method constrains the distribution of the estimated abundance matrix to resemble a targeted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 D. Doutsas , B. Figliuzzi

Variational Auto-Encoders enforce their learned intermediate latent-space data distribution to be a simple distribution, such as an isotropic Gaussian. However, this causes the posterior collapse problem and loses manifold structure which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Huidong Liu , Yang Guo , Na Lei , Zhixin Shu , Shing-Tung Yau , Dimitris Samaras , Xianfeng Gu

From ecology to atmospheric sciences, many academic disciplines deal with data characterized by intricate spatio-temporal complexities, the modeling of which often requires specialized approaches. Generative models of these data are of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Konstantin Klemmer , Tianlin Xu , Beatrice Acciaio , Daniel B. Neill

This paper introduces the concept of travel behavior embeddings, a method for re-representing discrete variables that are typically used in travel demand modeling, such as mode, trip purpose, education level, family type or occupation. This…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-09-15 Francisco C. Pereira

The quality of self-supervised pre-trained embeddings on out-of-distribution (OOD) data is poor without fine-tuning. A straightforward and simple approach to improving the generalization of pre-trained representation to OOD data is the use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shuman Peng , Arash Khoeini , Sharan Vaswani , Martin Ester

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

Neural representations for 3D meshes are emerging as an effective solution for compact storage and efficient processing. Existing methods often rely on neural overfitting, where a coarse mesh is stored and progressively refined through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiang Gao , Yuanpeng Liu , Xinmu Wang , Jiazhi Li , Minghao Guo , Yu Guo , Xiyun Song , Heather Yu , Zhiqiang Lao , Xianfeng David Gu

Manifold learning is a fundamental task at the core of data analysis and visualisation. It aims to capture the simple underlying structure of complex high-dimensional data by preserving pairwise dissimilarities in low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Thomas Dagès , Simon Weber , Daniel Cremers , Ron Kimmel

Data living on manifolds commonly appear in many applications. Often this results from an inherently latent low-dimensional system being observed through higher dimensional measurements. We show that under certain conditions, it is possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-05 Ariel Schwartz , Ronen Talmon

The study of interlayer similarity of multiplex networks helps to understand the intrinsic structure of complex systems, revealing how changes in one layer can propagate and affect others, thus enabling broad implications for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haoran Nan , Senquan Wang , Chun Ouyang , Yanchen Zhou , Weiwei Gu

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool for measuring the distance between two defined probability distributions. In this paper, we develop a new manifold named the coupling matrix manifold (CMM), where each point on CMM can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Dai Shi , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , S. T. Boris Choy , Zhiyong Wang

This article introduces a new data-driven approach that leverages a manifold embedding generated by the invertible neural network to improve the robustness, efficiency, and accuracy of the constitutive-law-free simulations with limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Bahador Bahmani , WaiChing Sun

We investigate how symmetries present in datasets affect the structure of the latent space learned by Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). By training VAEs on data originating from simple mechanical systems and particle collisions, we analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Veronica Sanz