Summary of Aligning Embeddings and Geometric Random Graphs: Informational Results and Computational Approaches For the Procrustes-wasserstein Problem, by Mathieu Even et al.
Aligning Embeddings and Geometric Random Graphs: Informational Results and Computational Approaches for the Procrustes-Wasserstein Problem
by Mathieu Even, Luca Ganassali, Jakob Maier, Laurent Massoulié
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles the Procrustes-Wasserstein problem, a challenging task in natural language processing and computer vision that involves matching two high-dimensional point clouds without supervision. The authors consider a planted model where one dataset is a noisy version of another, up to an orthogonal transformation and relabeling. They focus on the euclidean transport cost as a performance measure for alignment. The paper establishes information-theoretic results in both high and low dimensional regimes, proposes the Ping-Pong algorithm for computational aspects, and provides experimental results comparing its performance with state-of-the-art method. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about matching two big collections of data points without knowing how they relate to each other. This problem has many real-world applications, like understanding natural language or recognizing objects in pictures. The researchers created a special model that represents one dataset as a noisy version of another, and then they tried to match the datasets by finding the right way to change their shapes and reorder them. They looked at different ways to measure how well they did, and came up with a new algorithm called Ping-Pong. They tested this algorithm against others and found it worked well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Natural language processing
