Earth mover's distances on discrete surfaces

J Solomon, R Rustamov, L Guibas… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a novel method for computing the earth mover's distance (EMD) between
probability distributions on a discrete surface. Rather than using a large linear program with …

A sliced wasserstein loss for neural texture synthesis

E Heitz, K Vanhoey, T Chambon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of computing a textural loss based on the statistics extracted from
the feature activations of a convolutional neural network optimized for object recognition (eg …

On parameter estimation with the Wasserstein distance

E Bernton, PE Jacob, M Gerber… - … and Inference: A …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Statistical inference can be performed by minimizing, over the parameter space, the
Wasserstein distance between model distributions and the empirical distribution of the data …

Projection robust Wasserstein distance and Riemannian optimization

T Lin, C Fan, N Ho, M Cuturi… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Projection robust Wasserstein (PRW) distance, or Wasserstein projection pursuit (WPP), is a
robust variant of the Wasserstein distance. Recent work suggests that this quantity is more …

Fréchet means and Procrustes analysis in Wasserstein space

Y Zemel, VM Panaretos - 2019 - projecteuclid.org
Frechet means and Procrustes analysis in Wasserstein space Page 1 Bernoulli 25(2), 2019,
932–976 https://doi.org/10.3150/17-BEJ1009 Fréchet means and Procrustes analysis in …

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 …

Recent advances in optimal transport for machine learning

EF Montesuma, FN Mboula, A Souloumiac - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.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 …

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 …

Sliced gromov-wasserstein

T Vayer, R Flamary, R Tavenard, L Chapel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Recently used in various machine learning contexts, the Gromov-Wasserstein distance (GW)
allows for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie in the same metric …

Fast approximation of the sliced-Wasserstein distance using concentration of random projections

K Nadjahi, A Durmus, PE Jacob… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract The Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) is being increasingly used in machine
learning applications as an alternative to the Wasserstein distance and offers significant …