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In this paper, we explore the idea of combining GCNs into one model. To that end, we align the weights of different models layer-wise using optimal transport (OT). We present and evaluate three types of transportation costs and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Weronika Ormaniec , Michael Vollenweider , Elisa Hoskovec

Transport systems on networks are crucial in various applications, but face a significant risk of being adversely affected by unforeseen circumstances such as disasters. The application of entropy-regularized optimal transport (OT) on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Yota Hashizume , Tomohiko Jimbo , Hirotaka Kaji , Kenji Kashima

Distributional data have become increasingly prominent in modern signal processing, highlighting the necessity of computing optimal transport (OT) maps across multiple probability distributions. Nevertheless, recent studies on neural OT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mingchen Jiang , Peng Xu , Xichen Ye , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang , Yifan Chen

Inferring the structure of gene regulatory networks (GRN) from gene expression data has many applications, from the elucidation of complex biological processes to the identification of potential drug targets. It is however a notoriously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-05-08 Anne-Claire Haury , Fantine Mordelet , Paola Vera-Licona , Jean-Philippe Vert

Identifying evolutionary correspondences between cell types across species is a fundamental challenge in comparative genomics and evolutionary biology. Existing approaches often rely on either reference-based matching, which imposes…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-05 Mu Qiao

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for learning minimal-displacement maps between distributions. The predominant approach involves a neural parametrization of the Monge formulation of OT, typically assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Athina Sotiropoulou , David Alvarez-Melis

Modern high-throughput biological datasets with thousands of perturbations provide the opportunity for large-scale discovery of causal graphs that represent the regulatory interactions between genes. Differentiable causal graphical models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zaikang Lin , Sei Chang , Aaron Zweig , Minseo Kang , Elham Azizi , David A. Knowles

Single-cell RNA-sequencing captures a temporal slice, or a snapshot, of a cell differentiation process. A major bioinformatical challenge is the inference of differentiation trajectories from a single snapshot, and methods that account for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-11 Magnus Tronstad , Johan Karlsson , Joakim S. Dahlin

Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) are intricate biological systems that control gene expression and regulation in response to environmental and developmental cues. Advances in computational biology, coupled with high throughput sequencing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Akshata Hegde , Tom Nguyen , Jianlin Cheng

Training a Deep Neural Network (DNN) from scratch requires a large amount of labeled data. For a classification task where only small amount of training data is available, a common solution is to perform fine-tuning on a DNN which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Ying Lu , Liming Chen , Alexandre Saidi

To improve the performance of classical generative adversarial network (GAN), Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (W-GAN) was developed as a Kantorovich dual formulation of the optimal transport (OT) problem using Wasserstein-1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Byeongsu Sim , Gyutaek Oh , Jeongsol Kim , Chanyong Jung , Jong Chul Ye

Time-series of high throughput gene sequencing data intended for gene regulatory network (GRN) inference are often short due to the high costs of sampling cell systems. Moreover, experimentalists lack a set of quantitative guidelines that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-18 Johan Markdahl , Nicolo Colombo , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

Trajectory inference is used to order single-cell omics data along a path that reflects a continuous transition between cells. This approach is useful for studying processes like cell differentiation, where a stem cell matures into a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-23 Alexandre Hutton , Jesse G. Meyer

The design of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is inspired by the structure of the human brain, and in turn, ANNs offer a potential means to interpret and understand brain signals. Existing methods primarily align brain signals with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-08 Yang Xiao , Wang Lu , Jie Ji , Ruimeng Ye , Gen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui

We introduce COT-GAN, an adversarial algorithm to train implicit generative models optimized for producing sequential data. The loss function of this algorithm is formulated using ideas from Causal Optimal Transport (COT), which combines…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Tianlin Xu , Li K. Wenliang , Michael Munn , Beatrice Acciaio

We present Optimal Transport GAN (OT-GAN), a variant of generative adversarial nets minimizing a new metric measuring the distance between the generator distribution and the data distribution. This metric, which we call mini-batch energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Tim Salimans , Han Zhang , Alec Radford , Dimitris Metaxas

Real-world non-mydriatic retinal fundus photography is prone to artifacts, imperfections and low-quality when certain ocular or systemic co-morbidities exist. Artifacts may result in inaccuracy or ambiguity in clinical diagnoses. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Mohammad Farazi , Keshav Nandakumar , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

This research delves into advanced route optimization for robots in smart logistics, leveraging a fusion of Transformer architectures, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The approach utilizes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Hao Luo , Jianjun Wei , Shuchen Zhao , Ankai Liang , Zhongjin Xu , Ruxue Jiang

We devise a theoretical framework and a numerical method to infer trajectories of a stochastic process from samples of its temporal marginals. This problem arises in the analysis of single cell RNA-sequencing data, which provide high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-04 Hugo Lavenant , Stephen Zhang , Young-Heon Kim , Geoffrey Schiebinger

Structural pruning of neural networks conventionally relies on identifying and discarding less important neurons, a practice often resulting in significant accuracy loss that necessitates subsequent fine-tuning efforts. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alexander Theus , Olin Geimer , Friedrich Wicke , Thomas Hofmann , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Sidak Pal Singh