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Suppose we are given two metric spaces and a family of continuous transformations from one to the other. Given a probability distribution on each of these two spaces - namely the source and the target measures - the Wasserstein alignment…
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Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) provide a versatile class of models, which have attracted great attention in various applications. However, this framework has two main drawbacks: (i) Wasserstein-1 (or Earth-Mover)…
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Automatic scoring of student responses enhances efficiency in education, but deploying a separate neural network for each task increases storage demands, maintenance efforts, and redundant computations. To address these challenges, this…