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48 results for unbalanced transport

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ↗

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paper reformulates UOT as non-negative penalized linear regression for efficient algorithms.

problem Optimal transport with relaxed marginal conditions.
method Reformulate UOT as non-negative penalized linear regression, propose multiplicative updates.
result Efficient algorithms for UOT with quadratic penalties, continuity of solutions.

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 ↗

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.

A new method reduces the computational cost of Sinkhorn algorithm for OT and UOT problems.

problem High computational complexity of Sinkhorn algorithm for OT and UOT problems.
method Importance sparsification method called Spar-Sink to efficiently approximate entropy-regularized OT and UOT solutions.
result The method reduces computational cost from O(n2)O(n^2) to O~(n)\widetilde{O}(n), and is consistent under mild regularity conditions.

New gradient flows for non-negative and probability measures combining optimal transport and interaction forces.

problem Optimizing non-negative and probability measures using interaction forces and optimal transport.
method Interaction-Force Transport (IFT) gradient flows and their spherical variant, developed via infimal convolution of Wasserstein and spherical MMD tensors, with a particle-based optimization algorithm.
result The spherical IFT gradient flow provides global exponential convergence guarantees for both MMD and KL energy.

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.

New forms of multi-marginal POT problem derived for computational efficiency.

problem Optimizing transport between multiple unbalanced measures with limited supports.
method Developed two equivalence forms of the POT problem and an optimization algorithm, ApproxMPOT.
result ApproxMPOT algorithm achieves optimal value with complexity ildeO(m3(n+1)m/ε2) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(m^3(n+1)^{m}/ \varepsilon^2).

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.

New method for comparing different mass measures on tree structures using entropy partial transport.

problem Comparing nonnegative measures with different masses on tree structures.
method Entropy Partial Transport (EPT) on extended trees, regularized for fast computation and negative definiteness.
result First closed-form solution for unbalanced OT on tree structures.

Optimal transport simplifies machine learning by comparing probability measures.

problem Comparing and manipulating probability distributions in machine learning.
method Uses optimal transport to compare and manipulate probability distributions, combining statistical and geometric perspectives.
result Optimal transport provides a unified framework for various machine learning tasks.

New algorithm for low-rank optimal transport with improved interpretability and efficiency.

problem Quadratic scaling of optimal transport coupling matrix for massive datasets.
method Factor Relaxation with Latent Coupling (FRLC) algorithm.
result Superior performance on diverse applications including graph clustering and spatial transcriptomics.

A new framework for averaging spatio-temporal signals using optimal transport and soft alignments.

problem Averaging complex datasets with time and spatial components.
method Inspired by DTW, OT, and UOT, a new loss function is proposed to address shifts in time, space, and population size.
result The proposed loss function can be used to compute spatio-temporal barycenters efficiently.

Comparing data defined over space and time is notoriously hard, because it involves quantifying both spatial and temporal variability, while at the same time taking into account the chronological structure of data. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) computes an optimal alignment between time series in agreement with the chrono…

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

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.