Recent advances in optimal transport for machine learning

EF Montesuma, FMN Mboula… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, Optimal Transport has been proposed as a probabilistic framework in Machine
Learning for comparing and manipulating probability distributions. This is rooted in its rich …

Projection‐based techniques for high‐dimensional optimal transport problems

J Zhang, P Ma, W Zhong, C Meng - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optimal transport (OT) methods seek a transformation map (or plan) between two probability
measures, such that the transformation has the minimum transportation cost. Such a …

Statistical, robustness, and computational guarantees for sliced wasserstein distances

S Nietert, Z Goldfeld, R Sadhu… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Sliced Wasserstein distances preserve properties of classic Wasserstein distances while
being more scalable for computation and estimation in high dimensions. The goal of this …

Distributional sliced-Wasserstein and applications to generative modeling

K Nguyen, N Ho, T Pham, H Bui - arxiv preprint arxiv:2002.07367, 2020 - arxiv.org
Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) and its variant, Max Sliced-Wasserstein distance (Max-
SW), have been used widely in the recent years due to their fast computation and scalability …

Spherical sliced-wasserstein

C Bonet, P Berg, N Courty, F Septier, L Drumetz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Many variants of the Wasserstein distance have been introduced to reduce its original
computational burden. In particular the Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW), which leverages …

A riemannian block coordinate descent method for computing the projection robust wasserstein distance

M Huang, S Ma, L Lai - International Conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
The Wasserstein distance has become increasingly important in machine learning and deep
learning. Despite its popularity, the Wasserstein distance is hard to approximate because of …

On projection robust optimal transport: Sample complexity and model misspecification

T Lin, Z Zheng, E Chen, M Cuturi… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Optimal transport (OT) distances are increasingly used as loss functions for statistical
inference, notably in the learning of generative models or supervised learning. Yet, the …

Max-sliced mutual information

D Tsur, Z Goldfeld… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Quantifying dependence between high-dimensional random variables is central to statistical
learning and inference. Two classical methods are canonical correlation analysis (CCA) …

Sinkhorn distributionally robust optimization

J Wang, R Gao, Y **e - arxiv preprint arxiv:2109.11926, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study distributionally robust optimization (DRO) with Sinkhorn distance--a variant of
Wasserstein distance based on entropic regularization. We derive convex programming …

Revisiting sliced Wasserstein on images: From vectorization to convolution

K Nguyen, N Ho - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The conventional sliced Wasserstein is defined between two probability measures that have
realizations as\textit {vectors}. When comparing two probability measures over images …