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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

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

This paper considers the problem of measure estimation under the barycentric coding model (BCM), in which an unknown measure is assumed to belong to the set of Wasserstein-2 barycenters of a finite set of known measures. Estimating a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-29 Matthew Werenski , Ruijie Jiang , Abiy Tasissa , Shuchin Aeron , James M. Murphy

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance has gained increasing interest in the machine learning community in recent years, as it allows for the comparison of measures in different metric spaces. To overcome the limitations imposed by the equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yikun Bai , Rocio Diaz Martin , Abihith Kothapalli , Hengrong Du , Xinran Liu , Soheil Kolouri

Learning low-dimensional representations from multi-view relational data is challenging when underlying geometries differ across views. We propose Bary-GWMDS, a Gromov-Wasserstein-based method that operates directly on distance matrices to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Rafael Pereira Eufrazio , Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Charles Casimiro Cavalcante

Recently, two concepts from optimal transport theory have successfully been brought to the Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) setting. This introduces a linear version of the GW distance and multi-marginal GW transport. The former can reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert

Pairwise comparison of graphs is key to many applications in Machine learning ranging from clustering, kernel-based classification/regression and more recently supervised graph prediction. Distances between graphs usually rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Junjie Yang , Matthieu Labeau , Florence d'Alché-Buc

This paper introduces a novel and generic framework to solve the flagship task of supervised labeled graph prediction by leveraging Optimal Transport tools. We formulate the problem as regression with the Fused Gromov-Wasserstein (FGW) loss…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-27 Luc Brogat-Motte , Rémi Flamary , Céline Brouard , Juho Rousu , Florence d'Alché-Buc

In this paper, we focus on the analysis of the regularized Wasserstein barycenter problem. We provide uniqueness and a characterization of the barycenter for two important classes of probability measures: (i) Gaussian distributions and (ii)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 S. Kum , M. H. Duong , Y. Lim , S. Yun

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is a powerful tool for comparing metric measure spaces which has found broad applications in data science and machine learning. Driven by the need to analyze datasets whose objects have increasingly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Martin Bauer , Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) framework adapts ideas from optimal transport to allow for the comparison of probability distributions defined on different metric spaces. Scalable computation of GW distances and associated matchings on graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Samir Chowdhury , David Miller , Tom Needham

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…

We propose a new nonlinear factorization model for graphs that are with topological structures, and optionally, node attributes. This model is based on a pseudometric called Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) discrepancy, which compares graphs in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Hongteng Xu

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance quantifies discrepancy between metric measure spaces and provides a natural framework for aligning heterogeneous datasets. Alas, as exact computation of GW alignment is NP hard, entropic regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

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

We study the entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and its unbalanced version between (unbalanced) Gaussian distributions with different dimensions. When the metric is the inner product, which we refer to as inner product Gromov-Wasserstein (IGW), we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Khang Le , Dung Le , Huy Nguyen , Dat Do , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho

We propose a novel and principled method to learn a nonparametric graph model called graphon, which is defined in an infinite-dimensional space and represents arbitrary-size graphs. Based on the weak regularity lemma from the theory of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo , Lawrence Carin , Hongyuan Zha

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is frequently used in machine learning to compare distributions across distinct metric spaces. Despite its utility, it remains computationally intensive, especially for large-scale problems. Recently, a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-01 Antoine Salmona , Julie Delon , Agnès Desolneux

We introduce a theoretical framework for performing statistical tasks---including, but not limited to, averaging and principal component analysis---on the space of (possibly asymmetric) matrices with arbitrary entries and sizes. This is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Samir Chowdhury , Tom Needham

The Wasserstein barycenter (WB) is an important tool for summarizing sets of probability measures. It finds applications in applied probability, clustering, image processing, etc. When the measures' supports are finite, computing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Daniel Mimouni , P Malisani , J. Zhu , W. de Oliveira
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