Summary of Improving Neural Optimal Transport Via Displacement Interpolation, by Jaemoo Choi et al.
Improving Neural Optimal Transport via Displacement Interpolation
by Jaemoo Choi, Yongxin Chen, Jaewoong Choi
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach for learning the optimal transport map using neural networks, referred to as Optimal Transport Map (OT Map), has been gaining popularity in machine learning applications such as generative modeling and unpaired image-to-image translation. Despite its potential, existing methods utilizing max-min optimization often struggle with training instability and hyperparameter sensitivity. To address this issue, the authors propose a Displacement Interpolation Optimal Transport Model (DIOTM) that leverages displacement interpolation to improve stability and achieve a better approximation of the OT Map. By exploiting the dual formulation of displacement interpolation at specific time t and proving its relation across time, the method enables the use of the entire trajectory in learning the OT Map. The authors demonstrate that DIOTM outperforms existing OT-based models on image-to-image translation tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers has found a new way to use neural networks to solve complex problems called optimal transport maps. This technique is useful for things like generating new images and translating images from one style to another. However, the old methods used to do this were tricky to work with because they could get stuck or produce bad results if you didn’t set them up just right. The new method, called DIOTM, makes it easier to use optimal transport maps by using a technique called displacement interpolation. This helps make the calculations more stable and produces better results. The researchers tested their new method on image-to-image translation tasks and found that it worked much better than the old methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hyperparameter » Machine learning » Optimization » Translation
