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48 results for projection distance

In this work an intrinsic projectively invariant distance is used to establish a new approach to the study of projective geometry in Finsler space. It is shown that the projectively invariant distance previously defined is a constant multiple of the Finsler distance in certain case. As a consequence, two projectively r…

2013-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves a theorem for Assouad dimension with applications to distance sets and radial projections.

problem Problems related to Assouad dimension and distance sets.
method General nonlinear projection theorem for Assouad dimension.
result Sharp estimates for sets with Assouad dimension less than 1 and exceptional set estimates.

We propose fast approximations for the generalized sliced-Wasserstein distance.

problem Efficient approximation of the generalized sliced-Wasserstein distance in high dimensions.
method Deterministic approximations using random projections and concentration of measure results.
result One-dimensional projections of high-dimensional random vectors are approximately Gaussian.

Develops a two-sample test using projected Wasserstein distance to handle high-dimensional data.

problem Testing whether two high-dimensional samples come from the same distribution.
method Optimal projection to find a low-dimensional linear mapping that maximizes the Wasserstein distance between projected probability distributions.
result Characterizes the convergence rate of the projected Wasserstein distance and presents practical algorithms.

Here, a non-linear analysis method is applied rather than classical one to study projective Finsler geometry. More intuitively, by means of an inequality on Ricci-Finsler curvature, a projectively invariant pseudo-distance is introduced and an analogous of Schwarz' lemma in Finsler geometry is proved. Next, the Schwarz…

2013-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new distance measure balances projection exploration and informativeness.

problem Inefficient and incomplete projection sampling in existing sliced-Wasserstein distances.
method Proposes Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein (DSW) that optimally balances projection exploration and informativeness.
result DSW generalizes Max-SW and can be computed efficiently.

A new metric HCP distance for comparing distributions.

problem Comparing high-dimensional probability distributions efficiently.
method Hilbert curve projection to low-dimensional coupling, followed by transport distance calculation.
result HCP distance is a proper metric for probability measures with bounded supports.

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.

New method estimates SW distance using CDFs for scalable data parallelism.

problem Estimating SW distance efficiently for large datasets.
method Estimators based on CDFs of projected measures, avoiding sorting.
result Efficient estimation for large datasets and federated learning.

A new method approximates the Sliced-Wasserstein distance without random projections.

problem Efficiently approximating the Sliced-Wasserstein distance for machine learning applications.
method Utilizing the concentration of measure phenomenon to develop a deterministic approximation.
result The approximation error goes to zero as the dimension increases, under a weak dependence condition.

Max-sliced Wasserstein distance improves GAN training on high-dimensional images.

problem Improving GAN training on high-dimensional distributions with reduced hyper-parameters and training time.
method Developed max-sliced Wasserstein distance to reduce projection complexity and sample complexity.
result Trains GANs on high-dimensional images up to 256x256 resolution.

Paper introduces S3W distance for spherical probability distributions.

problem Comparing spherical probability distributions efficiently and accurately.
method S3W distance using stereographic projection and generalized Radon transform.
result Extensive theoretical analysis and evaluation of S3W performance.

Paper presents efficient computation of robust Wasserstein distance using Riemannian optimization.

problem Intractability of optimizing Projection Robust Wasserstein (PRW) distance due to non-convexity and non-smoothness.
method Riemannian optimization to efficiently compute PRW/Wasserstein Projection Pursuit (WPP) distance.
result The original formulation of PRW/WPP can be efficiently computed in practice, providing better behavior than its convex relaxation.

A new snake model improves segmentation of SEM images.

problem Efficiently segmenting overlapping electronic structures in SEM images.
method Geodesic tracking on projective line bundle with a geometric criterion for switching between fast spatial snakes and minimizing geodesics.
result Improved robust and automatic segmentation of overlapping electronic structures in SEM images.

A new method optimizes projection directions for sliced Wasserstein distances.

problem Finding informative projecting directions for sliced Wasserstein distances is computationally expensive.
method Amortized projection optimization to predict directions efficiently.
result Proposed amortized models improve generative modeling performance.

The paper finds non-Gaussian directions in high-dimensional data using Wasserstein distance.

problem Locating interesting non-Gaussian features in high-dimensional data.
method Projection pursuit using 2-Wasserstein distance to maximize the difference from Gaussian.
result Statistical guarantees for accurately approximating an unknown low-dimensional non-Gaussian subspace.

Investigates projections onto explicit subspaces and their variance effects.

problem Understanding the variance preservation in explicit subspace projections.
method Investigates projections onto explicit subspaces of varying dimensionality and analyzes the variance effects.
result Developed new bounds for Euclidean distances and inner products.

Using existing technology, we prove a Masur-Minsky style distance formula for flip- graph distance between two triangulations, expressed as a sum of the distances of the projections of these triangulations into arc graphs of the suitable subsurfaces of S.

2015-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We calculate the bridge distance for mm-bridge knots/links in the 33-sphere with sufficiently complicated 2m2m-plat projections. In particular we show that if the underlying braid of the plat has n1n - 1 rows of twists and all its exponents have absolute value greater than or equal to three then the distance of the b…

2013-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimal inequalities found between Riemannian and Hilbert metrics in convex projective domains.

problem Finding optimal bounds between Riemannian and Hilbert metrics in convex projective domains.
method Optimal control techniques applied to Riemannian metrics induced by centro-affine hypersurface immersions.
result Optimal inequalities between Riemannian and Hilbert metrics for a class of convex projective domains.

Improves point-cloud reconstruction by optimizing projections with self-attention.

problem Inefficient and non-metric projection methods for sliced Wasserstein distances.
method Proposes distributional sliced Wasserstein distance with self-attention for permutation-invariant and metric optimization.
result Self-attention amortized distributional projection optimization achieves better performance in point-cloud reconstruction.

Paper develops a new method for differential privacy sampling using Wasserstein distance.

problem Sampling from distributions under differential privacy constraints with geometric structure consideration.
method Develops a novel framework with Wasserstein Projection Mechanism (WPM) for minimax optimal mechanisms.
result Proposes efficient algorithms for approximate computation of the Wasserstein Projection Mechanism.

A new method solves the projection robust Wasserstein distance problem efficiently.

problem Computing the projection robust Wasserstein distance is challenging due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Riemannian block coordinate descent (RBCD) method to solve the regularized max-min problem over the Stiefel manifold.
result RBCD method significantly improves the complexity of obtaining an ε-stationary point compared to existing methods.

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.

Paper extends multivariate rank tests for robust subspace detection.

problem Testing distributional similarity in multivariate data.
method Soft and subspace robust multivariate rank tests based on entropy regularized optimal transport.
result Trade-off between detection power and false alarm rate via projections.

Study infinite Euclidean distance discriminants of algebraic varieties.

problem Understanding the structure of data points with infinitely many critical points in Euclidean distance correspondence.
method Developed computer code to compute discriminants and proved properties of fibers.
result Infinite Euclidean distance discriminants contain all data points with infinitely many critical points for the nearest-point problem.

Complete Finsler spaces with negative Ricci curvature are reversible.

problem Characterizing Finsler spaces with constant negative Ricci curvature.
method Utilizing projectively invariant pseudo-distance and Schwarzian derivative.
result Every connected complete Finsler space with constant negative Ricci scalar is reversible.

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma allows for the projection of nn points in pp-dimensional Euclidean space onto a kk-dimensional Euclidean space, with k24lnn3ε22ε3k \ge \frac{24\ln \emph{n}}{3ε^2-2ε^3}, so that the pairwise distances are preserved within a factor of 1±ε1\pmε. Here, working directly with the distributions of the …

2010-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

It has been reported repeatedly that discriminative learning of distance metric boosts the pattern recognition performance. A weak point of ITML-based methods is that the distance threshold for similarity/dissimilarity constraints must be determined manually and it is sensitive to generalization performance, although t…

2018-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

PCA minor projection is most sensitive to distributional changes in bivariate data.

problem Detecting sparse distributional changes in high-dimensional data.
method Proved that the minor projection of PCA-rotated data is most sensitive to distributional changes defined by Hellinger distance.
result The minor projection is the most sensitive to sparse distributional changes in high-dimensional data.

Algorithm selects public datasets for private machine learning.

problem Choosing the most suitable public dataset for private machine learning.
method Measures gradient subspace distance between public and private datasets.
result Excess risk scales with the subspace distance between gradients.

We give an alternative definition of relative hyperbolicity based on properties of closest-point projections on peripheral subgroups. We also derive a distance formula for relatively hyperbolic groups, similar to the one for mapping class groups.

2010-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A new metric HSW derived from hierarchical Radon Transform addresses computational bottlenecks in sliced Wasserstein.

problem Computational inefficiency of sliced Wasserstein in high-dimensional settings with few supports.
method Hierarchical Radon Transform (HRT) and bottleneck projections to reduce projection number.
result HSW metric derived from HRT is computationally efficient and maintains metric properties.

As a typical dimensionality reduction technique, random projection can be simply implemented with linear projection, while maintaining the pairwise distances of high-dimensional data with high probability. Considering this technique is mainly exploited for the task of classification, this paper is developed to study th…

2013-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes PPMM for fast estimation of large-scale OTM.

problem Estimation of large-scale optimal transport maps (OTM) is challenging due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Combines projection pursuit regression and sufficient dimension reduction to adaptively select projection directions.
result PPMM consistently estimates the most informative projection direction and weakly converges to the target OTM.