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Distributionally robust supervised learning (DRSL) is emerging as a key paradigm for building reliable machine learning systems for real-world applications -- reflecting the need for classifiers and predictive models that are robust to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yaodong Yu , Tianyi Lin , Eric Mazumdar , Michael I. Jordan

The distance transform (DT) and its many variations are ubiquitous tools for image processing and analysis. In many imaging scenarios, the images of interest are corrupted by noise. This has a strong negative impact on the accuracy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Johan Öfverstedt , Joakim Lindblad , Nataša Sladoje

Gradient flows of the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence, such as the Fokker--Planck equation and Stein Variational Gradient Descent, evolve a distribution toward a target density known only up to a normalizing constant. We introduce new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-09 Elias Hess-Childs , Dejan Slepčev , Lantian Xu

With the increasing availability of data objects in the form of probability distributions, there is a growing need for statistical methods tailored to distributional data. Distance measures, especially the pairwise distance matrix between…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-03 Edward Shao , Junyoung Park , Naresh Punjabi , Hui Jiang , Irina Gaynanova

The aim of this paper is to address the challenge of gradual domain adaptation within a class of manifold-constrained data distributions. In particular, we consider a sequence of $T\ge2$ data distributions $P_1,\ldots,P_T$ undergoing a…

We develop a theory for image restoration with a learned regularizer that is analogous to that of Meyer's characterization of solutions of the classical variational method of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF). The learned regularizer we use is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Tristan Milne , Adrian Nachman

The Wasserstein distance has become increasingly important in machine learning and deep learning. Despite its popularity, the Wasserstein distance is hard to approximate because of the curse of dimensionality. A recently proposed approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has become a powerful framework for estimation under uncertainty, offering strong out-of-sample performance and principled regularization. In this paper, we propose a DRO-based method for linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-06 Liviu Aolaritei , Soroosh Shafiee , Florian Dörfler

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO)-based robust adaptive beamforming (RAB) enables enhanced robustness against model uncertainties, such as steering vector mismatches and interference-plus-noise covariance matrix estimation errors.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kiarash Hassas Irani , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Yongwei Huang

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has been widely used in different application scenarios since it can be scaled to a large number of supports without suffering from the curse of dimensionality. The value of sliced Wasserstein distance is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-07 Khai Nguyen , Tongzheng Ren , Huy Nguyen , Litu Rout , Tan Nguyen , Nhat Ho

We study distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with uncertainty sets consisting of high-dimensional random vectors that are close in the multivariate Wasserstein distance to a reference random vector. We give conditions when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Brandon Tam , Silvana M. Pesenti

Tomography is a central tool in medical applications, allowing doctors to investigate patients' interior features. The Radon transform (in two dimensions) is commonly used to model the measurement process in parallel-beam CT. Suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Richard Huber

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has recently achieved empirical success for various applications in operations research and machine learning, owing partly to its regularization effect. Although connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Rui Gao , Xi Chen , Anton J. Kleywegt

The Wasserstein distance and its variations, e.g., the sliced-Wasserstein (SW) distance, have recently drawn attention from the machine learning community. The SW distance, specifically, was shown to have similar properties to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Soheil Kolouri , Kimia Nadjahi , Umut Simsekli , Roland Badeau , Gustavo K. Rohde

Using integral transforms to the end of lines detection in images with complex background, makes the detection a hard task needing additional processing to manage the detection. As an integral transform, the Scale Space Radon Transform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Aicha Baya Goumeidane , Djemel Ziou , Nafaa Nacereddine

The Wasserstein distance, rooted in optimal transport (OT) theory, is a popular discrepancy measure between probability distributions with various applications to statistics and machine learning. Despite their rich structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-02 Sloan Nietert , Rachel Cummings , Ziv Goldfeld

Wasserstein Discriminant Analysis (WDA) is a new supervised method that can improve classification of high-dimensional data by computing a suitable linear map onto a lower dimensional subspace. Following the blueprint of classical Linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Rémi Flamary , Marco Cuturi , Nicolas Courty , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Inspired by the success of generative image models, recent work on learned image compression increasingly focuses on better probabilistic models of the natural image distribution, leading to excellent image quality. This, however, comes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jona Ballé , Luca Versari , Emilien Dupont , Hyunjik Kim , Matthias Bauer

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

This paper extends the Radon transform, a classical image processing tool for fast tomography and denoising, to the quantum computing platform. A new kind of periodic discrete Radon transform (PDRT), called quantum Radon transform (QRT), is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Guangsheng Ma , Hongbo Li , Jiman Zhao