Paper introduces ITD for detecting distributional changes in decentralized learning environments.
problem Detecting distributional changes in decentralized learning environments with data privacy and heterogeneity concerns.
method Introduces Integrated Transportation Distance (ITD) for two-sample testing in federated learning.
result ITD effectively aggregates information across distributed clients, detecting subtle distributional shifts.
Sliced Optimal Transport simplifies OT for fast computation.
problem Efficient computation of distances and barycenters for probability measures.
method Combines OT, integral geometry, and statistics for fast computation.
result Retains rich geometric structure while speeding up computations.
InfoOT improves data alignment by maximizing mutual information.
problem Optimal transport's limitations in handling clusters, outliers, and new data.
method InfoOT extends optimal transport by maximizing mutual information while minimizing distances.
result InfoOT outperforms optimal transport in domain adaptation, cross-domain retrieval, and single-cell alignment.
This work improves understanding of projection robust optimal transport distances.
problem Understanding the behavior of minimum Wasserstein estimators in high-dimensional and misspecified models.
method Adopting projection robust (PR) optimal transport, establishing statistical properties, proposing IPRW distance, and providing asymptotic guarantees.
result Established fundamental statistical properties and proposed new distances that outperform Wasserstein distances empirically.
Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation involves the resolution of a linear program whose cost is prohibitive whenever the hi…
SinSim improves self-supervised learning by integrating optimal transport into contrastive learning.
problem Lack of explicit regularization in contrastive learning methods leads to suboptimal generalization.
method Integrates Sinkhorn regularization from optimal transport theory into SimCLR.
result SinSim outperforms SimCLR and other self-supervised methods on various datasets.
New toolkit for directed distances improves flexibility of OT problems.
problem Optimal transport problems with constraints.
method Directed distances between quantile functions.
result Flexibility in solving OT problems enhanced.
A novel method for comparing graphs of different sizes using Wasserstein distance.
problem Comparing non-aligned graphs of varying sizes.
method Optimal transport in graph comparison framework, solving a one-to-many assignment problem.
result Significant improvements in graph alignment and classification tasks.
Robust learning method combines kernel smoothing and robust optimization.
problem Certifying robustness against distribution shifts in machine learning models.
method Adapting integral operator using supremal convolution for robustness, leveraging optimal transport.
result The method provides theoretical guarantees for certified robustness and competitive performance.
We study the geometry of the space of densities $\VolM$, which is the quotient space $\Diff(M)/\Diff_μ(M)$ of the diffeomorphism group of a compact manifold M by the subgroup of volume-preserving diffemorphisms, endowed with a right-invariant homogeneous Sobolev H˙1-metric. We construct an explicit isometry f…
Paper connects surface shape analysis and unbalanced optimal transport.
problem Computing the SRNF shape distance on piecewise linear surfaces.
method Characterizes SRNF shape distance as WFR distance pullback, proposes new algorithm for WFR distance computation.
result Direct computation of SRNF shape distance on piecewise linear surfaces.
Proposes a new distance metric for multi-marginal optimal transport.
problem Computational scalability in multi-marginal optimal transport.
method Random one-dimensional projections to construct sliced multi-marginal Wasserstein distance.
result Sliced multi-marginal Wasserstein distance is a metric with dimension-free sample complexity.
This paper analyzes minibatch optimal transport distances and their applications.
problem Optimal transport distances are complex and impractical for large datasets.
method Extended analysis of minibatch optimal transport distances, focusing on various kernels and debiased functions.
result Minibatch optimal transport distances are unbiased estimators and have statistical and optimisation properties.
No-collision maps improve manifold learning for image data.
problem Lack of geometric feature sensitivity in traditional distance measures.
method Developed no-collision transportation maps and distances.
result No-collision distances provide isometry for translations and dilations.
New method uses nested optimal transport for financial time series evaluation.
problem Lack of consensus metric for evaluating generative models in finance.
method Nested optimal transport distance for time-causal tasks, with a parallelizable algorithm.
result Substantial speedups and robustness to financial tasks.
A new method for estimating SW from streaming data.
problem Estimating Wasserstein distance from sample streams.
method Introducing a streaming estimator of the 1DW and applying it to all projections.
result Stream-SW achieves more accurate approximation of SW than random subsampling.
Bayesian approach to optimal transport with stochastic costs.
problem Inferring optimal transport plans with uncertain costs.
method Bayesian framework and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling.
result Inference of optimal transport plans under stochastic cost functions.
New metrics compare rational spectra using optimal transport.
problem Comparing rational spectra efficiently and accurately.
method Optimal transport and linear-systems theory.
result Established connection to Wasserstein distance.
We define a novel class of distances between statistical multivariate distributions by modeling an optimal transport problem on their marginals with respect to a ground distance defined on their conditionals. These new distances are metrics whenever the ground distance between the marginals is a metric, generalize both…
We propose a new algorithm that uses an auxiliary neural network to express the potential of the optimal transport map between two data distributions. In the sequel, we use the aforementioned map to train generative networks. Unlike WGANs, where the Euclidean distance is implicitly used, this new method allows …
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 distance, combines optimal transport in primal form with an energy distance define…
New online method estimates OT distances from sample streams.
problem Computing OT distances between arbitrary distributions.
method Online Sinkhorn algorithm using iterative enrichment of non-parametric representation.
result Consistent estimation of true regularized OT distance with nearly-O(1/n) sample complexity.
We propose a novel probabilistic approach to multilevel clustering problems based on composite transportation distance, which is a variant of transportation distance where the underlying metric is Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our method involves solving a joint optimization problem over spaces of probability measures t…
The recently developed bag-of-paths (BoP) framework consists in setting a Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution on all feasible paths of a graph. This probability distribution favors short paths over long ones, with a free parameter (the temperature T) controlling the entropic level of the distribution. This formalism enables…
Improved persistence spheres map measures to functions, stable under partial transport.
problem Representing and comparing measures in topological machine learning.
method Persistence spheres map measures to continuous functions on the sphere, stable under 1-Wasserstein partial transport.
result Persistence spheres provide a stable, parameter-free representation of measures, improving upon existing methods.
New framework for efficient optimal transport distances between Markov chains.
problem Efficient computation of optimal transport distances between Markov chains.
method Developed a new perspective on optimal transport distances using discounted occupancy couplings and linear programming.
result Introduced Sinkhorn Value Iteration (SVI) for efficient calculation of optimal transport distances.
ATD measures language distance using neural models, recovering linguistic groupings.
problem Lack of a unified quantitative measure for cross-linguistic distance.
method Pretrained multilingual language models, attention mechanisms, optimal transport.
result ATD quantifies representational distance between languages, recovering linguistic groupings.
The paper introduces optimal transport kernels for comparing cell complexes.
problem Lack of machine learning methods for CW complexes.
method Derives explicit expression for Wasserstein distance, extends Fused Gromov-Wasserstein, introduces novel kernels.
result Introduced novel kernels for comparing probability measures on CW complexes.
LOT framework speeds up event distance computation in collider physics.
problem Computational inefficiency in quantifying event distances.
method Linearized Optimal Transport (LOT) for efficient computation.
result LOT significantly reduces computational cost without sacrificing accuracy.
Computing optimal transport distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. Despite the recent introduction of several algorithms with good empirical performance, it is unknown whether general optimal transport distances can be approximated in …
We propose an SDP relaxation for the Gromov-Wasserstein distance, providing globally optimal solutions.
problem Matching objects between incomparable spaces using the Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
method Semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation of the GW distance.
result The SDP relaxation provides globally optimal solutions for the GW distance in some instances.
s-OTDD compares datasets efficiently without training, robust to class variations.
problem Efficiently compare datasets without training or class variations.
method Moment Transform Projection (MTP) and sliced optimal transport.
result s-OTDD correlates with optimal transport and transfer learning performance.
Maps on Sasakian manifolds limit to sub-Riemannian distance bounds.
problem Understanding sub-Riemannian distances on Sasakian manifolds.
method Parallel and mirror maps along geodesics of a taming Riemannian metric.
result Limits of transport maps outside sub-Riemannian cut-locus provide bounds on sub-Riemannian distance.
Optimal transport distances, otherwise known as Wasserstein distances, have recently drawn ample attention in computer vision and machine learning as a powerful discrepancy measure for probability distributions. The recent developments on alternative formulations of the optimal transport have allowed for faster solutio…
New algorithm estimates transport maps with nearly optimal error.
problem Estimating smooth transport maps efficiently and accurately.
method Solving semi-dual formulation of optimal transport with kernel sums-of-squares.
result Statistical L2 error on maps nearly matches minimax lower-bounds. A practical algorithm improves approximate OT distances using quantization.
problem Substantial computational burden in computing OT distances for large samples.
method Introduces a quantization step to estimate OT distances between measures.
result The quantization step improves the performance of approximate solvers for entropy-regularized transport.
Paper uses Sinkhorn distances to improve imitation learning effectiveness.
problem Improving imitation learning algorithms by comparing occupancy measures.
method Formulates imitation learning as Sinkhorn distance minimization, combining optimal transport and cosine distances.
result Proposes a new critic network and transport plan that guide imitation learning.
New algorithm solves unbalanced optimal transport on trees in quasi-linear time.
problem Efficiently solving unbalanced optimal transport problems on trees.
method Proposed an algorithm that solves a more general unbalanced optimal transport problem exactly in quasi-linear time on a tree metric.
result Solves unbalanced optimal transport on trees in quasi-linear time (less than one second for a tree with one million nodes).
Algorithm classifies point clouds using deep set linearized optimal transport.
problem Classifying point clouds efficiently and accurately.
method Deep Set Linearized Optimal Transport, ICNNs, and a discriminator network.
result Efficiently distinguishes between various classes of point clouds.
Paper estimates non-causal graphical models using covariance extension and transportation distance.
problem Estimating non-causal graphical models with smoothing relations.
method Proposes a covariance extension problem and uses transportation distance to minimize error with white noise.
result Solution is a double-sided autoregressive non-causal graphical model.
Differentiable EM for Gaussian Mixture Models improves model integration.
problem Non-differentiability of EM algorithm limits its use in modern learning pipelines.
method Presented and compared several differentiation strategies for EM.
result Differentiable EM enables the use of Mixture Wasserstein distance in machine learning tasks.
In this paper we extend the setting of the online prediction with expert advice to function-valued forecasts. At each step of the online game several experts predict a function, and the learner has to efficiently aggregate these functional forecasts into a single forecast. We adapt basic mixable (and exponentially conc…
New robust method for optimal transportation improves statistical inference.
problem Sensitivity to outliers and undefinedness in optimal transportation methods.
method Robust optimal transportation with a tuning parameter λ, leading to robust Wasserstein distance.
result The robust method provides statistical guarantees and improves machine learning applications.
Paper proves generalized Talagrand inequality for Sinkhorn distance.
problem Proving a generalized Talagrand inequality for Sinkhorn distance.
method Using entropy power inequality and infinitesimal displacement convexity of optimal transport map.
result Extends previous results of Gaussian Talagrand inequality for Sinkhorn distance to strongly log-concave case.
New method for optimal transport with missing data, debiased and efficient.
problem Solving optimal transport between two distributions with missing values.
method Debiasing Wasserstein distance for empirical Gaussian distributions, entropic regularized optimal transport using ISVT.
result Efficient and consistent estimation of entropic regularized optimal transport.
The paper solves the optimal transport problem between algebraic hypersurfaces.
problem Optimal deformation of projective hypersurfaces.
method Measure theory and optimal transport, embedding into measure space, constrained dynamical formulation.
result Introduction of an inner Wasserstein distance finer than the Fubini-Study distance.
Proposes HOT method for robust multi-view learning.
problem Inability of traditional methods to handle unaligned and non-distributionally aligned views.
method Hierarchical optimal transport (HOT) method that penalizes sliced Wasserstein distances between different views.
result HOT method achieves robust performance on both synthetic and real-world tasks.
CDOT optimizes transport between domains preserving both feature and geometric structure.
problem Optimizing transport between heterogeneous domains with preserved feature and geometric structure.
method CDOT uses operator-based regularization to align distance structures, proving pseudometric properties.
result CDOT improves robustness to local geometric variations and is provably convex.