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48 results for Wasserstein Barycenters

New algorithm for computing Wasserstein barycenters with guarantees.

problem Computing Wasserstein barycenters with varying regularization strengths.
method Damped Sinkhorn iterations followed by exact maximization/minimization steps.
result First non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for approximating Wasserstein barycenters.

Proposes variational Wasserstein barycenters for geometric clustering.

problem Geometric clustering problems, especially K-means and co-clustering.
method Solves for Monge maps using variational principle, explores connections to K-means and co-clustering.
result Demonstrates feasibility and use of variational Wasserstein barycenters in clustering.

Develops a method to efficiently compute Wasserstein barycenters with variational distributions.

problem High computational burden in computing Wasserstein barycenters for high-dimensional and continuous settings.
method Introduces a variational distribution to approximate the continuous Wasserstein barycenter, reformulating the problem as an optimization with c-cyclical monotonicity.
result The method provides a tractable dual formulation for efficient computation of Wasserstein barycenters, demonstrated on real applications.

New algorithm computes optimal transport barycenter efficiently.

problem Computing optimal transport barycenter for high-dimensional probability distributions.
method Wasserstein-Descent H˙1\dot{\mathbb{H}}^1-Ascent (WDHA) algorithm.
result Exact barycenter computation in nearly linear time and linear space complexity.

New method proves absolute continuity of Wasserstein barycenters on manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bound.

problem Proving absolute continuity of Wasserstein barycenters on manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bound.
method Introducing new displacement functionals exploiting Hessian equality and revisiting Souslin space theory, Dunford-Pettis theorem, and de la Vallée Poussin criterion for uniform integrability.
result Absolute continuity of Wasserstein barycenters is established for a general class of manifolds with lower Ricci curvature bound.

A scalable algorithm approximates Wasserstein Barycenters using neural networks.

problem Representing the weighted mean of probability distributions in high dimensions.
method Input Convex Neural Networks (ICNNs) for Kantorovich dual formulation of Wasserstein-2 distance.
result Generative model representation of the Barycenter with infinite samples.

Scalable algorithm for computing Wasserstein-2 barycenters without bias.

problem Computing Wasserstein-2 barycenters efficiently and accurately.
method Input convex neural networks and cycle-consistency regularization.
result Our approach avoids introducing bias and does not require minimax optimization.

Efficiently computes optimal transport maps and Wasserstein barycenters using conditional normalizing flows.

problem Computing optimal transport maps and Wasserstein barycenters in high-dimensional spaces.
method Uses conditional normalizing flows to approximate distributions and solve the primal problem.
result Shows computational feasibility for hundreds of input distributions and yields accurate results.

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.

We study barycenters in the space of probability measures on a Riemannian manifold, equipped with the Wasserstein metric. Under reasonable assumptions, we establish absolute continuity of the barycenter of general measures ΩP(P(M))Ω\in P(P(M)) on Wasserstein space, extending on one hand, results in the Euclidean case (for ba…

2014-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

New method for scalable barycenter computation using Wasserstein gradient flows.

problem Scalability and integration of label information in barycenter computation.
method Gradient flows in Wasserstein space, time discretization, mini-batch optimal transport, modular regularization, task-aware functions, supervised information integration.
result Empirically validated new state-of-the-art barycenter solver with labeled barycenters outperforming unlabeled ones.

Proposes MFSWB for marginal fairness in SWB, improving efficiency and performance.

problem Achieving marginal fairness in SWB averaging.
method Defining MFSWB as a constrained SWB problem, proposing two surrogate problems and a new slicing distribution.
result Surrogate MFSWB problems effectively minimize distances to marginals and encourage marginal fairness.

We present new algorithms to compute the mean of a set of empirical probability measures under the optimal transport metric. This mean, known as the Wasserstein barycenter, is the measure that minimizes the sum of its Wasserstein distances to each element in that set. We propose two original algorithms to compute Wasse…

2013-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we propose to perform model ensembling in a multiclass or a multilabel learning setting using Wasserstein (W.) barycenters. Optimal transport metrics, such as the Wasserstein distance, allow incorporating semantic side information such as word embeddings. Using W. barycenters to find the consensus between…

2019-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative model improved using Liouville PDE-based sliced-Wasserstein flow.

problem Improving generative models for fair regression.
method Transformed sliced-Wasserstein flow into Liouville PDE-based formalism, handling density estimation with normalizing flows of neural ODE.
result Outperforms in convergence and fairness with reduced variance.

A new method for barycenter of probability measures using entropic optimal transport.

problem Finding a weighted average of probability distributions.
method Doubly regularized Wasserstein barycenters with entropic optimal transport.
result The new formulation is debiased and has a smooth density, leading to efficient estimation and optimization.

We present a stochastic algorithm to compute the barycenter of a set of probability distributions under the Wasserstein metric from optimal transport. Unlike previous approaches, our method extends to continuous input distributions and allows the support of the barycenter to be adjusted in each iteration. We tackle the…

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New method synthesizes and analyzes probability measures using entropy-regularized optimal transport.

problem Synthesize and analyze probability measures with entropy-regularized optimal transport.
method Entropy-regularized Wasserstein-2 cost and Sinkhorn divergence for synthesis and analysis.
result Computed barycentric coefficients and their stability for classification of corrupted point cloud data.

Study absolute continuity of Wasserstein barycenters on manifolds with singular cost functions.

problem Absolute continuity of Wasserstein barycenters on manifolds with singular cost functions.
method Approximation framework to handle singularity, geometrically transparent.
result Precise analytic condition on cost profile for necessary assumptions.

Efficient federated algorithm for calculating transportation barycenter.

problem Efficiently calculating the free-support transportation barycenter in a federated setting.
method Single-loop dual decomposition algorithm that uses only aggregated information.
result Significantly scalable and low-complexity algorithm for federated computation.

A new method for computing shape barycenters from point clouds using Procrustes-Wasserstein distance.

problem Computing representative shapes from point clouds with precise alignment and shape preservation.
method Developed a new distance metric (Procrustes-Wasserstein) and algorithms for computing barycenters.
result Superior performance in precise alignment and shape preservation compared to existing OT approaches.

Proposes using Wasserstein barycenter for better multilingual alignment.

problem Finding word-to-word translations between multiple languages without parallel data.
method Uses Wasserstein barycenter as a more informative pivot language, minimizing pairwise transportation costs.
result Demonstrates state-of-the-art performances on standard benchmarks.

We introduce a weak notion of barycenter of a probability measure μμ on a metric measure space (X,d,m)(X, d, {\bf m}), with the metric dd and reference measure m{\bf m}. Under the assumption that optimal transport plans are given by mappings, we prove that our barycenter B(μ)B(μ) is well defined; it is a probability measur…

2017-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a method for fairness in multi-task learning using Wasserstein barycenters.

problem Extending fairness to multi-task learning with shared representations.
method Definition of Strong Demographic Parity extended to multi-task learning using multi-marginal Wasserstein barycenters. Closed form solution for optimal fair predictor.
result Empirical results show practical value of post-processing methodology in promoting fair decision-making.

We solve a complex optimization problem for Wasserstein barycenters using stochastic methods.

problem Optimizing the average of multiple probability distributions in a streaming data setting.
method We reformulate the problem as a convex-concave saddle-point problem and propose a stochastic optimization algorithm.
result Our algorithm has better complexity than existing methods for arbitrary distributions.

Efficiently aggregating data from different sources is a challenging problem, particularly when samples from each source are distributed differently. These differences can be inherent to the inference task or present for other reasons: sensors in a sensor network may be placed far apart, affecting their individual meas…

2017-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces SGA for barycenter optimization in optimal transport.

problem Optimizing Wasserstein barycenter for discrete distributions.
method Sobolev gradient ascent algorithm tailored to Wasserstein geometry.
result SGA achieves convergence rate similar to subgradient descent.

TreeDSB solves mOT problems on tree-structured costs for Wasserstein barycenters.

problem Optimal transport with multiple marginals and tree-structured quadratic costs.
method Tree-based Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge (TreeDSB) for continuous and dynamic solutions.
result TreeDSB efficiently computes Wasserstein barycenters in high dimensions.

The paper develops a method to achieve fairness in predictions using Wasserstein barycenters.

problem Learning a fair real-valued function independent of sensitive attributes.
method Establishing a connection between fair regression and optimal transport theory, deriving a close form expression for the optimal fair predictor as the Wasserstein barycenter of sensitive groups.
result The optimal fair predictor's distribution is the Wasserstein barycenter of sensitive groups' distributions, offering an intuitive interpretation and a simple post-processing algorithm.

We introduce and study a novel model-selection strategy for Bayesian learning, based on optimal transport, along with its associated predictive posterior law: the Wasserstein population barycenter of the posterior law over models. We first show how this estimator, termed Bayesian Wasserstein barycenter (BWB), arises na…

2018-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes using Wasserstein barycenters for robust optimization with multiple data sources.

problem Distributionally robust optimization with multiple heterogeneous data sources.
method Construct nominal distribution through Wasserstein barycenter of multiple data samples, reformulates as a finite convex program.
result Proposed scheme outperforms other estimators in sparse inverse covariance matrix estimation.

Spectral clustering improves accuracy and efficiency for clustering discrete distributions.

problem Inaccurate clustering of discrete distributions using traditional methods.
method Spectral clustering combined with distribution affinity measures (MMD, Wasserstein distance) and linear optimal transport.
result Spectral clustering outperforms traditional methods in accuracy and efficiency.

We propose a new \cu{class-optimal} algorithm for the distributed computation of Wasserstein Barycenters over networks. Assuming that each node in a graph has a probability distribution, we prove that every node can reach the barycenter of all distributions held in the network by using local interactions compliant with…

2018-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on Wasserstein barycenters with computational hardness and fast algorithm development.

problem Computing Wasserstein barycenters of discrete probability measures with fixed support.
method Developed a deterministic variant of IBP algorithm, FastIBP, with improved complexity.
result Demonstrated favorable performance of FastIBP in practice.

This work tackles regression on non-Euclidean spaces, specifically positive-definite matrices with the Bures-Wasserstein metric.

problem Regression on non-Euclidean spaces, specifically positive-definite matrices with the Bures-Wasserstein metric.
method Developed a sufficient condition for the existence of a minimizer of the conditional barycenter problem, characterized the optimization landscape, and developed a projection-free algorithm for approximate computation of first-order stationary points.
result The objective is free of local maxima under the sufficient condition, and the algorithm enables the use of stochastic Riemannian optimization methods for large-scale setups.