Summary of Sliced Wasserstein with Random-path Projecting Directions, by Khai Nguyen and Shujian Zhang and Tam Le and Nhat Ho
Sliced Wasserstein with Random-Path Projecting Directions
by Khai Nguyen, Shujian Zhang, Tam Le, Nhat Ho
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes an optimization-free slicing distribution that enables fast Monte Carlo estimation of expectation in parameter estimators. The authors introduce the Random-Path Projecting Direction (RPD) and derive two variants of sliced Wasserstein distance: Random-Path Projection Sliced Wasserstein (RPSW) and Importance Weighted RPD Sliced Wasserstein (IWRPSW). The paper explores topological, statistical, and computational properties of these variants and demonstrates their favorable performance in gradient flow and training denoising diffusion generative models on images. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research makes it easier to improve computer models that estimate unknown values. The scientists developed a new way to select the “slicing distribution” which is used to calculate Wasserstein distance, a measure of how different two probability distributions are. This new method doesn’t require expensive calculations and can be used with many types of data. The results show that this method works well for training computer models that generate images. |
