Summary of Fast and Scalable Wasserstein-1 Neural Optimal Transport Solver For Single-cell Perturbation Prediction, by Yanshuo Chen et al.
Fast and scalable Wasserstein-1 neural optimal transport solver for single-cell perturbation prediction
by Yanshuo Chen, Zhengmian Hu, Wei Chen, Heng Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel solver based on Wasserstein-1 (W1) dual formulation offers a more efficient approach to constructing mappings between two unpaired single-cell data distributions. By simplifying the optimization problem to a maximization task over a single 1-Lipschitz function, W1 dual eliminates the need for time-consuming min-max optimization. While it only reveals the transport direction and does not directly provide an optimal transport map, incorporating an additional step using adversarial training effectively recovers the map. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed W1 neural optimal transport solver can mimic the performance of Wasserstein-2 (W2) OT solvers on 2D datasets, achieving comparable or better results. Moreover, W1 OT solver achieves a significant speedup, scaling better on high-dimensional transportation tasks and being directly applicable to single-cell RNA-seq datasets with highly variable genes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way of predicting how cells will respond to changes using mathematical optimization techniques called optimal transport. This method is used to find the best way to match two groups of cell data that don’t have a direct connection. The old approach uses Wasserstein-2, which takes a lot of time and effort to solve. The new approach uses Wasserstein-1, which is much faster and efficient. It also includes an extra step to make sure the results are accurate. The paper shows that this new method can perform as well or even better than the old method on certain types of data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Optimization
