Computational optimal transport: With applications to data science

G Peyré, M Cuturi - Foundations and Trends® in Machine …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Optimal transport (OT) theory can be informally described using the words of the French
mathematician Gaspard Monge (1746–1818): A worker with a shovel in hand has to move a …

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization: Theory and applications in machine learning

D Kuhn, PM Esfahani, VA Nguyen… - … science in the age …, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
Many decision problems in science, engineering, and economics are affected by uncertain
parameters whose distribution is only indirectly observable through samples. The goal of …

Computational optimal transport: Complexity by accelerated gradient descent is better than by Sinkhorn's algorithm

P Dvurechensky, A Gasnikov… - … conference on machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We analyze two algorithms for approximating the general optimal transport (OT) distance
between two discrete distributions of size $ n $, up to accuracy $\varepsilon $. For the first …

Partial optimal tranport with applications on positive-unlabeled learning

L Chapel, MZ Alaya, G Gasso - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Classical optimal transport problem seeks a transportation map that preserves the total mass
between two probability distributions, requiring their masses to be equal. This may be too …

Sliced wasserstein distance for learning gaussian mixture models

S Kolouri, GK Rohde… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Gaussian mixture models (GMM) are powerful parametric tools with many applications in
machine learning and computer vision. Expectation maximization (EM) is the most popular …

Point-set distances for learning representations of 3d point clouds

T Nguyen, QH Pham, T Le, T Pham… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Learning an effective representation of 3D point clouds requires a good metric to measure
the discrepancy between two 3D point sets, which is non-trivial due to their irregularity. Most …

Keypoint-guided optimal transport with applications in heterogeneous domain adaptation

X Gu, Y Yang, W Zeng, J Sun… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Existing Optimal Transport (OT) methods mainly derive the optimal transport
plan/matching under the criterion of transport cost/distance minimization, which may cause …

Most: Multi-source domain adaptation via optimal transport for student-teacher learning

T Nguyen, T Le, H Zhao, QH Tran… - Uncertainty in …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Multi-source domain adaptation (DA) is more challenging than conventional DA because the
knowledge is transferred from several source domains to a target domain. To this end, we …

On the complexity of approximating Wasserstein barycenters

A Kroshnin, N Tupitsa, D Dvinskikh… - International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the complexity of approximating the Wasserstein barycenter of $ m $ discrete
measures, or histograms of size $ n $, by contrasting two alternative approaches that use …

Automatic text evaluation through the lens of Wasserstein barycenters

P Colombo, G Staerman, C Clavel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
A new metric\texttt {BaryScore} to evaluate text generation based on deep contextualized
embeddings eg, BERT, Roberta, ELMo) is introduced. This metric is motivated by a new …