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Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric tool used to compare and align probability measures following the least effort principle. Despite its widespread use in machine learning (ML), OT problem still bears its computational burden,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Oliver Struckmeier , Ievgen Redko , Anton Mallasto , Karol Arndt , Markus Heinonen , Ville Kyrki

Learning from set-structured data is a fundamental problem that has recently attracted increasing attention, where a series of summary networks are introduced to deal with the set input. In fact, many meta-learning problems can be treated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Dandan Guo , Long Tian , Minghe Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly specialize by domain (e.g., math, code, general reasoning), motivating systems that leverage complementary strengths across models. Prior multi-LLM approaches either (i) route a query to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Dhruv Parikh , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Neural networks encode inputs as high-dimensional vectors, known as representations, that capture how models process data by encoding task-relevant structure and semantics. Representation alignment refers to the degree to which different…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinyuan Yan , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady , Bei Wang

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

Cross-modal matching, a fundamental task in bridging vision and language, has recently garnered substantial research interest. Despite the development of numerous methods aimed at quantifying the semantic relatedness between image-text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengxin Pan , Haishuai Wang , Fangyu Wu , Bailing Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Hongyang Chen

Training data are usually limited or heterogeneous in many chemical and biological applications. Existing machine learning models for chemistry and materials science fail to consider generalizing beyond training domains. In this article, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fang Wu , Nicolas Courty , Shuting Jin , Stan Z. Li

Recent studies have proposed different methods to improve multilingual word representations in contextualized settings including techniques that align between source and target embedding spaces. For contextualized embeddings, alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sawsan Alqahtani , Garima Lalwani , Yi Zhang , Salvatore Romeo , Saab Mansour

Unsupervised graph alignment aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs without any anchor node pairs. Despite the recent efforts utilizing deep learning-based techniques, such as the embedding and optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Songyang Chen , Youfang Lin , Yu Liu , Shuai Zheng , Lei Zou

Finding node correspondence across networks, namely multi-network alignment, is an essential prerequisite for joint learning on multiple networks. Despite great success in aligning networks in pairs, the literature on multi-network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Zhichen Zeng , Boxin Du , Si Zhang , Yinglong Xia , Zhining Liu , Hanghang Tong

In optimal transport (OT), a Monge map is known as a mapping that transports a source distribution to a target distribution in the most cost-efficient way. Recently, multiple neural estimators for Monge maps have been developed and applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Luca Eyring , Dominik Klein , Théo Uscidda , Giovanni Palla , Niki Kilbertus , Zeynep Akata , Fabian Theis

Embedding high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional space is an indispensable component of data analysis. In numerous applications, it is necessary to align and jointly embed multiple datasets from different studies or experimental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-03 Boris Landa , Yuval Kluger , Rong Ma

Algorithmic trading refers to executing buy and sell orders for specific assets based on automatically identified trading opportunities. Strategies based on reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in addressing…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-03 Xi Cheng , Jinghao Zhang , Yunan Zeng , Wenfang Xue

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the construction of multi-agent systems to solve complex tasks by dividing responsibilities among specialized agents, such as a planning agent for subgoal generation and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Minghang Zhu , Zhengliang Shi , Zhiwei Xu , Shiguang Wu , Lingjie Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen

We study the multi-marginal partial optimal transport (POT) problem between $m$ discrete (unbalanced) measures with at most $n$ supports. We first prove that we can obtain two equivalence forms of the multimarginal POT problem in terms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-25 Khang Le , Huy Nguyen , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho

Deep neural networks have achieved success across a wide range of applications, including as models of human behavior and neural representations in vision tasks. However, neural network training and human learning differ in fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Lukas Muttenthaler , Klaus Greff , Frieda Born , Bernhard Spitzer , Simon Kornblith , Michael C. Mozer , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Unterthiner , Andrew K. Lampinen

Recent advances in multimodal learning have largely relied on pairwise contrastive objectives to align different modalities, such as text, video, and audio, in a shared embedding space. While effective in bi-modal setups, these approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Haochen You , Baojing Liu

The inherent safety alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is prone to erosion during fine-tuning, even when using seemingly innocuous datasets. While existing defenses attempt to mitigate this via data selection, they typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Haozhong Wang , Zhuo Li , Yibo Yang , He Zhao , Hongyuan Zha , Dandan Guo

Recent years have witnessed a flurry of research activity in graph matching, which aims at finding the correspondence of nodes across two graphs and lies at the heart of many artificial intelligence applications. However, matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Weijie Liu , Hui Qian , Chao Zhang , Jiahao Xie , Zebang Shen , Nenggan Zheng

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