Summary of Strongly Isomorphic Neural Optimal Transport Across Incomparable Spaces, by Athina Sotiropoulou et al.
Strongly Isomorphic Neural Optimal Transport Across Incomparable Spaces
by Athina Sotiropoulou, David Alvarez-Melis
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel neural formulation of the Gromov-Monge (GM) problem, which learns minimal-displacement maps between distributions across “incomparable spaces”. This is achieved by decomposing the learnable OT map into two components: an approximate strong isomorphism between the source distribution and an intermediate reference distribution, and a GM-optimal map between this reference and the target distribution. The approach leverages the Monge gap regularizer to eliminate complex architectural requirements, yielding a simple yet practical method with favorable theoretical guarantees. This paper contributes to the development of Optimal Transport (OT) for learning minimal-displacement maps across diverse spaces. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed a new way to learn how to match two groups of things, called distributions, that are very different from each other. They did this by breaking down the process into two steps: first, they found an easy way to change one distribution to look like another, and then they used that changed distribution as a middle step to find the best way to match the original distributions. This new approach is simple and works well in practice. |
