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48 results for Unbalanced Measures

We extend Sobolev transport to unbalanced measures on graphs.

problem Optimal transport struggles with measures of different total mass and high computational complexity.
method We propose a scalable unbalanced Sobolev transport (UST) for measures on graphs.
result UST admits a closed-form formula for fast computation and is negative definite.

New formulations for comparing metric measure spaces with arbitrary positive measures.

problem Comparing metric measure spaces with arbitrary positive measures.
method Two novel formulations: a divergence and a conic lifting approach.
result Efficiently solvable formulations for comparing metric spaces with arbitrary positive measures.

Optimal transport induces the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein) distance between probability distributions, a geometric divergence that is relevant to a wide range of problems. Over the last decade, two relaxations of optimal transport have been studied in depth: unbalanced transport, which is robust to the presence of outli…

2019-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New methods estimate transport-growth pairs in unbalanced optimal transport.

problem Statistical guarantees for Monge-type estimation in unbalanced optimal transport remain limited.
method Developed two estimators for transport-growth pairs under different setups.
result Achieved minimax optimal rate for estimation of transport-growth pairs.

A new method for transporting unbalanced measures on graphs efficiently.

problem Optimal transport for measures with unequal total masses on graph metric spaces.
method Developed a novel variant of entropy partial transport (Orlicz-EPT) with Orlicz geometric structure, leading to Orlicz-Sobolev transport (OST).
result OST can be efficiently computed by solving a univariate optimization problem, significantly faster than Orlicz-EPT.

A new model corrects inhomogeneity in Optimal Transport with Boundary.

problem Inhomogeneity in UROT models for Optimal Transport with Boundary.
method Proposed a modified entropic regularization term to make UROT models homogeneous.
result Homogeneous UROT model preserves properties of standard UROT while correcting inhomogeneity.

This paper introduces a new formulation of the Conic Gromov-Wasserstein distance for comparing complex network structures.

problem Comparing measures of unequal mass and complex network structures.
method Novel semi-coupling formulation and extension to hypernetworks.
result Establishes fundamental properties and robustness of CGW metric.

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).

Optimal transport with path constraints for distributions of different masses.

problem Comparing distributions with different total masses under path constraints.
method Introduces a model for unbalanced optimal transport with path constraints, proving existence of solutions.
result Existence of solutions to path constrained unbalanced optimal transport for various constraints.

New method clusters strong and weak views effectively, improving performance by up to 40%.

problem Clustering incomplete multi-view data with unbalanced incompleteness.
method View evolution scheme and weighted multi-view subspace clustering.
result Improves clustering performance by up to 40% on three metrics.

Study inverse problems with measure samples, improving estimator calibration and recovery.

problem Inverse problems with unknown potentials observed through measure samples.
method Introduced convex empirical objectives and sharpened Fenchel--Young losses for finite-dimensional potential classes.
result High-probability parameter recovery bounds for inverse entropic unbalanced optimal transport and inverse JKO learning.

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.

Unbalanced minibatch Optimal Transport improves domain adaptation performance.

problem Optimal transport distances are computationally expensive for large datasets.
method Use unbalanced minibatch Optimal Transport to estimate distances over subsets of data.
result Unbalanced Optimal Transport leads to better domain adaptation results.

Proposes a method to stabilize treatment effect estimation with unbalanced data.

problem Unbalanced treatment assignment leading to unstable propensity score estimations.
method Undersamples data for propensity score modeling and calibrates scores to match original distribution.
result The estimator retains asymptotic properties of the DML estimator and improves finite sample performance.

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.

We prove that a geodesic net with three boundary (= unbalanced) vertices on a non-positively curved plane has at most one balanced vertex. We do not assume any a priori bound for the degrees of unbalanced vertices. The result seems to be new even in the Euclidean case. We demonstrate by examples that the result is not …

2018-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper defines ε-Safe Decision Regions for exponential family distributions and approximates them for unbalanced data.

problem Need probabilistic guarantees for reliable predictions in machine learning.
method Formalizes ε-Safe Decision Regions, proves their form for exponential family distributions, and develops Multi Cost SVM for unbalanced data.
result Formal definition and analytical determination of ε-Safe Decision Regions for exponential family distributions.

Study of Gaussian distributions using entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and inner product Gromov-Wasserstein.

problem Optimal transportation between Gaussian distributions with different dimensions.
method Entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and inner product Gromov-Wasserstein, with closed-form expressions and von Neumann's trace inequality.
result Closed-form expressions for the entropic IGW and its unbalanced variant between Gaussian distributions.

The area under the ROC curve is widely used as a measure of performance of classification rules. However, it has recently been shown that the measure is fundamentally incoherent, in the sense that it treats the relative severities of misclassifications differently when different classifiers are used. To overcome this, …

2012-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Exact solutions reveal how unbalanced initializations promote rapid feature learning in neural networks.

problem Understanding how neural networks efficiently extract features from data.
method Deriving exact solutions to a minimal model of neural networks transitioning between lazy and rich learning regimes.
result Unbalanced layer-specific initialization variances and learning rates determine the degree of feature learning.

Improved R-QDA classifier performs well in unbalanced data settings.

problem High sensitivity of R-QDA to covariance matrix estimation noise in unbalanced data.
method Proposes an improved R-QDA with two regularization parameters and a modified bias.
result Significantly better classification performance compared to traditional R-QDA.

We provide a computational complexity analysis for the Sinkhorn algorithm that solves the entropic regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem between two measures of possibly different masses with at most nn components. We show that the complexity of the Sinkhorn algorithm for finding an ε\varepsilon-appr…

2020-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose to compute Wasserstein barycenters (WBs) by solving for Monge maps with variational principle. We discuss the metric properties of WBs and explore their connections, especially the connections of Monge WBs, to K-means clustering and co-clustering. We also discuss the feasibility of Monge WBs on unbalanced me…

2020-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Unbalanced data arises in many learning tasks such as clustering of multi-class data, hierarchical divisive clustering and semisupervised learning. Graph-based approaches are popular tools for these problems. Graph construction is an important aspect of graph-based learning. We show that graph-based algorithms can fail…

2011-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Characterizes distribution-free rates in unbalanced classification problems.

problem Minimizing error under two different distributions in unbalanced settings.
method Characterizes minimax rates over all pairs of distributions using a geometric condition.
result Identifies a dichotomy between hard and easy classes based on a three-points-separation condition.

Introduces new metric for Riemannian metrics, extending unbalanced optimal transport.

problem Extending unbalanced optimal transport to Riemannian metrics.
method Dynamic and static formulations of unbalanced optimal transport on Riemannian metrics.
result Wasserstein--Ebin metric provides a new Riemannian structure on the space of Riemannian metrics.

This paper uses UOT metrics for better dimensionality reduction and classification/clustering.

problem Improving dimensionality reduction and classification/clustering methods.
method Uses Hellinger--Kantorovich metric from unbalanced optimal transport (UOT).
result UOT outperforms Euclidean and OT-based methods in classification and clustering tasks.

New scalable methods for unbalanced optimal transport improve efficiency and applicability.

problem Scalable algorithms for unbalanced optimal transport remain underexplored.
method Analysis of semi-dual formulation and adaptive gradient methods.
result SGD methods achieve a convergence rate of O(n/εT) for large-scale applications.

New method uses optimal transport for better covariate matching in causal effect estimation.

problem Estimating causal effects in observational studies with high-dimensional covariates.
method Multimarginal unbalanced optimal transport for interpretable matching.
result Method provides interpretable weights and competitive performance with k-nearest neighbors.