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 …

Sinkhorn autoencoders

G Patrini, R Van den Berg, P Forre… - Uncertainty in …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Optimal transport offers an alternative to maximum likelihood for learning generative
autoencoding models. We show that minimizing the $ p $-Wasserstein distance between the …

Sliced wasserstein generative models

J Wu, Z Huang, D Acharya, W Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to
measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is …

Adversarial autoencoders for compact representations of 3D point clouds

M Zamorski, M Zięba, P Klukowski, R Nowak… - Computer Vision and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Deep generative architectures provide a way to model not only images but also complex, 3-
dimensional objects, such as point clouds. In this work, we present a novel method to obtain …

Tree-sliced variants of Wasserstein distances

T Le, M Yamada, K Fukumizu… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Optimal transport (\OT) theory defines a powerful set of tools to compare probability
distributions.\OT~ suffers however from a few drawbacks, computational and statistical …

f-gail: Learning f-divergence for generative adversarial imitation learning

X Zhang, Y Li, Z Zhang… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Imitation learning (IL) aims to learn a policy from expert demonstrations that minimizes the
discrepancy between the learner and expert behaviors. Various imitation learning …

A survey on optimal transport for machine learning: Theory and applications

LC Torres, LM Pereira, MH Amini - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01963, 2021 - arxiv.org
Optimal Transport (OT) theory has seen an increasing amount of attention from the computer
science community due to its potency and relevance in modeling and machine learning. It …

Wasserstein unsupervised reinforcement learning

S He, Y Jiang, H Zhang, J Shao, X Ji - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Unsupervised reinforcement learning aims to train agents to learn a handful of policies or
skills in environments without external reward. These pre-trained policies can accelerate …

On the convergence of coordinate ascent variational inference

A Bhattacharya, D Pati, Y Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01122, 2023 - arxiv.org
As a computational alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches, variational
inference (VI) is becoming more and more popular for approximating intractable posterior …

[PDF][PDF] Generalized variational inference

J Knoblauch, J Jewson, T Damoulas - stat, 2019 - researchgate.net
This paper introduces a generalized representation of Bayesian inference. It is derived
axiomatically, recovering existing Bayesian methods as special cases. We then use it to …