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48 results for Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality

Revisits shallow neural networks using Lipschitz norms and measures.

problem Existence and compactness of minimizers in neural network formulations.
method Mean field parametrization, signed measures, duality pairings, Kantorovich-Rubinstein norms.
result Compactness results and uniform large data limits for empirical risk minimization.

This thesis uses Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance for classifying points based on their measures.

problem Classifying points based on their measures in a metric space.
method Using Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance as a metric in the space of measures to capture geometry and topology.
result A large Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance indicates the existence of a 1-Lipschitz classifier that well classifies the points.

Paper relaxes the Lipschitz constraint in WGANs to improve performance.

problem WGANs do not always outperform other GAN variants due to imperfect implementation of the Lipschitz condition.
method Proposes a new dual form of Wasserstein distance (Sobolev duality) that relaxes the Lipschitz constraint but maintains gradient property.
result SWGAN, based on Sobolev duality, outperforms existing methods in experiments.

New method uses optimal transport to determine best γ\gamma for almost stochastic dominance.

problem Tackles determining the best γ\gamma for almost stochastic dominance.
method Generalizes optimal transport problem to determine γ\gamma for various test functions.
result Derives dual characterization of order relations in terms of expectation comparisons.

Study sharp convergence rates of empirical UOT for spatio-temporal point processes.

problem Statistical analysis of UOT for spatio-temporal point processes.
method Empirical plug-in estimators for Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance between intensity measures.
result Sharp convergence rates of empirical UOT in terms of intrinsic dimensions of measures.

Paper tackles distribution matching by partially matching distributions, achieving robust results.

problem Robustly aligning two probability distributions.
method Developed a partial Wasserstein adversarial network (PWAN) to efficiently approximate the partial Wasserstein-1 (PW) discrepancy.
result The PWAN effectively produces highly robust matching results, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

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).

New framework enhances neural network robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to small perturbations.
method Integrates Lipschitz constraint using optimal transport and hinge regularization.
result Proposes a new loss function that certifies adversarial robustness.

Verma Howe duality connects tensor products of Verma modules to LKB representations.

problem Understanding the relationship between tensor products of Verma modules and LKB representations.
method Established a quantized version of Verma Howe duality and used it to prove the simplicity of LKB representations.
result LKB representations arise from the quantized Verma Howe duality and are shown to be simple modules.

Cohomological and homological spectral sequences are shown to be isomorphic.

problem Cohomological and homological Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequences are not always isomorphic.
method Spanier-Whitehead duality is used to establish an isomorphism between the two spectral sequences.
result Cohomological and homological Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequences are isomorphic for finite spectra.

The paper proves new results on Poincaré duality pairs and spaces.

problem Establishing Poincaré duality in various contexts and dimensions.
method Analyzes Poincaré spaces and CW pairs, proving relative Poincaré duality and related results.
result Found a finite CW pair (X,Y)(X,Y) where YY fails to satisfy Poincaré duality in any dimension.

We give the definition of a duality that is applicable to arbitrary kk-forms. The operator that defines the duality depends on a fixed form ΩΩ. Our definition extends in a very natural way the Hodge duality of nn-forms in 2n2n dimensional spaces and the generalized duality of two-forms. We discuss the properties of …

2011-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Geometric duality connects graph isomorphism and knot equivalence.

problem Understanding the equivalence of graph isomorphism and knot equivalence.
method Observation of geometric duality in planar graphs and links.
result The equivalence relation defined by isomorphisms of checkerboard graphs is the same as 2-isomorphisms of checkerboard graphs.

This dissertation explores T-duality between hyperkähler structures and branes on algebraic integrable systems.

problem Investigates T-duality between hyperkähler structures and branes on algebraic integrable systems.
method Uses techniques of generalized geometry and Fourier-Mukai transform to show T-duality between semi-flat hyperkähler structures and generalized branes.
result Shows T-duality between semi-flat hyperkähler structures and generalized branes on algebraic integrable systems.

We study generalized complex structures and TT-duality (in the sense of Bouwknegt, Evslin, Hannabuss and Mathai) on Lie algebras and construct the corresponding Cavalcanti and Gualtieri map. Such a construction is called "Infinitesimal TT-duality". As an application we deal with the problem of finding symplectic stru…

2017-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper establishes a duality between non-compact and compact symmetric pairs.

problem Understanding the relationship between non-compact and compact symmetric pairs.
method Developed a duality theorem between non-compact pseudo-Riemannian semisimple symmetric pairs and commutative compact semisimple symmetric triads.
result Explicit description of a one-to-one correspondence between non-compact and compact symmetric pairs.

We study discrete group actions on coarse Poincare duality spaces, e.g. acyclic simplicial complexes which admit free cocompact group actions by Poincare duality groups. When G is an (n-1) dimensional duality group and X is a coarse Poincare duality space of formal dimension n, then a free simplicial action of G on X d…

1999-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows plentiful non-homotopy finite Poincaré duality spaces.

problem The existence of non-homotopy finite Poincaré duality spaces.
method Constructing a finitely dominated Poincaré space with a non-trivial 2-divisible element in the reduced Grothendieck group.
result The existence of finitely dominated Poincaré spaces that are not homotopy finite.

Extends duality preserving singular set images and first fundamental forms to generalized cuspidal edges.

problem Preserving singular set images and first fundamental forms on generalized cuspidal edges.
method Extends previous isometric duality to generalized cuspidal edges including cuspidal cross caps and 5/2-cuspidal edges.
result New geometric insights on the duality.

The paper proves a generalized Lefschetz duality for a specific type of manifold.

problem Proving the hard Lefschetz duality for a new class of manifolds.
method Generalizing Kähler identities to prove the duality for locally conformally almost Kähler manifolds.
result The hard Lefschetz duality is established for locally conformally almost Kähler manifolds.