Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,742 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

326495127 · Jun 202019922001200920172026
48 results for Wasserstein-2 distance

We propose a novel end-to-end non-minimax algorithm for training optimal transport mappings for the quadratic cost (Wasserstein-2 distance). The algorithm uses input convex neural networks and a cycle-consistency regularization to approximate Wasserstein-2 distance. In contrast to popular entropic and quadratic regular…

2019-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved outlier detection in hierarchical Gaussian Processes using Wasserstein-2 kernels.

problem Outlier detection limitations in stacked Gaussian Processes.
method Proposed a hybrid kernel combining Euclidean and Wasserstein-2 distances, emphasizing variance in Wasserstein-2 computations.
result Improved performance and enhanced out-of-distribution detection on various datasets.

Corrects local error estimates for UBU integrator in SDEs, improving complexity guarantees.

problem Improper local error estimates in UBU integrator for SDEs.
method Reconciles theory with practice by correcting local error estimates.
result Stronger assumptions needed for O(d1/4ε1/2)\mathcal{O}(d^{1/4}ε^{-1/2}) steps in Wasserstein-2 distance.

DDPMs are robust to noisy score estimates and achieve optimal convergence rates in Wasserstein-2 distance.

problem Evaluating the quality of DDPMs in Wasserstein distance with noisy score estimates.
method Established finite-sample guarantees in Wasserstein-2 distance for DDPMs, considering noisy score estimates.
result Optimal convergence rates in Wasserstein-2 distance for DDPMs, matching Gaussian case.

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.

The paper provides convergence guarantees for ODE-based generative models using transformers.

problem Theoretical guarantees for ODE-based generative models.
method A pre-trained autoencoder maps inputs to a latent space, and a transformer predicts the velocity field.
result The distribution of samples generated via estimated ODE flow converges to the target distribution in Wasserstein-2 distance.

The paper proposes a method to ensure fairness in machine learning models.

problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models powered by supervised learning.
method Optimal affine transport and Wasserstein-2 barycenter to characterize the Pareto frontier between prediction error and statistical disparity.
result The proposed method effectively balances prediction accuracy and fairness, as demonstrated by numerical simulations.

KIPLMC methods improve statistical inference in latent variable models.

problem Statistical inference in latent variable models.
method Joint diffusion process in parameter and latent variable spaces, with two explicit discretizations.
result KIPLMC methods achieve accelerated convergence rates in Wasserstein-2 distance.

A new tamed stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm for superlinearly growing stochastic gradients.

problem Sampling and stochastic optimization problems with superlinearly growing stochastic gradients.
method Tamed Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (tSGHMC) algorithm.
result Established a non-asymptotic error bound in Wasserstein-2 distance with a convergence rate of 1/41/4.

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{\it implicitly} used, this new method allows …

2019-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian layer improves image segmentation and out-of-distribution detection.

problem Outlier detection in image segmentation.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates improve out-of-distribution detection.

New method improves sampling efficiency in complex stochastic systems.

problem Sampling efficiency in nonconvex stochastic gradient cases.
method Reflection coupling for unadjusted generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
result Quantitative Gaussian concentration bounds and convergence rates established.

K-means clustering improved for robustness to outliers and distribution shifts.

problem K-means is brittle to outliers, distribution shifts, and limited samples.
method Developed a distributionally robust variant using Wasserstein-2 ball around the empirical distribution.
result Substantial gains in outlier detection and robustness to noise demonstrated.

New analysis for learning and applying preconditioners in MCMC improves efficiency.

problem Improving efficiency of MCMC algorithms by modifying them with preconditioners.
method Analyzes and compares computational costs of MCMC schemes with and without preconditioners.
result Establishes non-asymptotic guarantees for MCMC algorithms that learn and use preconditioners.

The study provides guarantees for diffusion-based models under log-concave data, offering best-known convergence rates.

problem Theoretical guarantees for convergence of diffusion-based generative models under log-concave data distributions.
method Assumption of strongly log-concave data distributions, Lipschitz continuous functions for score estimation, and novel auxiliary process.
result Best known upper bounds for Wasserstein-2 distance between Gaussian distribution and sampling algorithm.

CNFs learn distributions from samples with error bounds.

problem Learning probability distributions from finite samples.
method Continuous normalizing flows with linear interpolation and flow matching objective function.
result Non-asymptotic error bounds for distribution estimator in Wasserstein-2 distance.

Proposes a new RL method to fine-tune flow-based models with arbitrary rewards.

problem Challenges in fine-tuning continuous flow-based generative models with arbitrary reward functions.
method Online Reward-Weighted Conditional Flow Matching with Wasserstein-2 Regularization (ORW-CFM-W2)
result Achieves optimal policy convergence with controllable trade-offs between reward maximization and diversity preservation.

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.

We present a framework for Nesterov's accelerated gradient flows in probability space to design efficient mean-field Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for Bayesian inverse problems. Here four examples of information metrics are considered, including Fisher-Rao metric, Wasserstein-2 metric, Kalman-Wasserstein m…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New method approximates sampling from smooth potential distributions using a vanishing penalty.

problem Sampling from smooth potential distributions on high-dimensional spaces.
method Penalized Langevin dynamics (PLD) with vanishing penalty.
result Established upper bound on Wasserstein-2 distance for PLD approximation.

Bayesian Gaussian Processes layer detects out-of-distribution data in medical imaging.

problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in medical imaging tasks.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates enable superior out-of-distribution detection compared to previous methods.

Generative models improve inverse problems by providing tailored priors.

problem Analyzing the error in inverse problems solved with generative priors.
method Quantitative error bounds for minimum Wasserstein-2 generative models.
result The error in the posterior due to the generative prior is bounded by the prior's error in Wasserstein-1 distance.

LOT embeds distributions for linear separability and classification.

problem Distribution discrimination in various scientific fields.
method Linear Optimal Transport (LOT) embedding into L2L^2 space.
result LOT embeds distributions into linearly separable spaces for certain transformations and perturbations.

A new method for learning conditional distributions using ODEs and neural networks.

problem Learning conditional distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Conditional Föllmer Flow, discretized with Euler's method, using nonparametric velocity estimation.
result Effective approximation of target conditional distributions, with convergence results for Wasserstein-2 distance.

The paper tackles efficient computation of optimal transport by approximating conjugates with amortized optimization.

problem Efficient computation of convex conjugates in optimal transport is challenging and limits the quality of transport maps.
method The approach combines amortized approximations of conjugates with a fine-tuning solver to improve transport map quality.
result The method significantly improves the quality of transport maps for the Wasserstein-2 benchmark and models many 2D couplings and flows.

Improved convergence rates for Stein Variational Gradient Descent in finite-particle settings.

problem Improving convergence rates for Stein Variational Gradient Descent in finite-particle settings.
method Analyzing the time derivative of relative entropy and splitting it into dominant and smaller parts.
result Finite-particle convergence rates of order 1/\sqrt{N} for Kernelized Stein Discrepancy and Wasserstein-2 metrics.

New algorithms improve sampling from complex distributions.

problem Sampling from high-dimensional target distributions with super-linearly growing potentials.
method Proposed aHOLA and aHOLLA algorithms with non-asymptotic convergence bounds.
result Achieved state-of-the-art rates of convergence in non-convex settings.

The paper proposes a neural network architecture inspired by Langevin Monte Carlo for sampling from target distributions.

problem Sampling from complex target distributions efficiently.
method A neural network architecture inspired by Langevin Monte Carlo is proposed to map samples from a simple reference distribution to samples from the target.
result The proposed neural network architecture achieves approximation rates in the Wasserstein-2 distance for smooth, log-concave target distributions.

SGD converges to an invariant distribution with sub-Gaussian or sub-exponential properties.

problem Optimizing smooth and strongly convex objectives using SGD.
method Analysis through Markov chains, focusing on convergence and concentration properties.
result SGD iterates and their invariant limit distribution inherit sub-Gaussian or sub-exponential concentration properties.

The paper describes flows of MMD functionals with distance kernel and quantile functions.

problem Wasserstein gradient flows of MMD functionals with negative distance kernel.
method Characterization via Cauchy problem on L2(0,1)L_2(0,1), solution via subdifferential construction.
result Flow invariance and smoothing properties on subsets of C(0,1)C(0,1), absolute continuity of initial measures.