Slicing Unbalanced Optimal Transport

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Autori principali: Bonet, Clément, Nadjahi, Kimia, Séjourné, Thibault, Fatras, Kilian, Courty, Nicolas
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Bonet, Clément
Nadjahi, Kimia
Séjourné, Thibault
Fatras, Kilian
Courty, Nicolas
author_facet Bonet, Clément
Nadjahi, Kimia
Séjourné, Thibault
Fatras, Kilian
Courty, Nicolas
contents Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful framework to compare probability measures, a fundamental task in many statistical and machine learning problems. Substantial advances have been made in designing OT variants which are either computationally and statistically more efficient or robust. Among them, sliced OT distances have been extensively used to mitigate optimal transport's cubic algorithmic complexity and curse of dimensionality. In parallel, unbalanced OT was designed to allow comparisons of more general positive measures, while being more robust to outliers. In this paper, we bridge the gap between those two concepts and develop a general framework for efficiently comparing positive measures. We notably formulate two different versions of sliced unbalanced OT, and study the associated topology and statistical properties. We then develop a GPU-friendly Frank-Wolfe like algorithm to compute the corresponding loss functions, and show that the resulting methodology is modular as it encompasses and extends prior related work. We finally conduct an empirical analysis of our loss functions and methodology on both synthetic and real datasets, to illustrate their computational efficiency, relevance and applicability to real-world scenarios including geophysical data.
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spellingShingle Slicing Unbalanced Optimal Transport
Bonet, Clément
Nadjahi, Kimia
Séjourné, Thibault
Fatras, Kilian
Courty, Nicolas
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful framework to compare probability measures, a fundamental task in many statistical and machine learning problems. Substantial advances have been made in designing OT variants which are either computationally and statistically more efficient or robust. Among them, sliced OT distances have been extensively used to mitigate optimal transport's cubic algorithmic complexity and curse of dimensionality. In parallel, unbalanced OT was designed to allow comparisons of more general positive measures, while being more robust to outliers. In this paper, we bridge the gap between those two concepts and develop a general framework for efficiently comparing positive measures. We notably formulate two different versions of sliced unbalanced OT, and study the associated topology and statistical properties. We then develop a GPU-friendly Frank-Wolfe like algorithm to compute the corresponding loss functions, and show that the resulting methodology is modular as it encompasses and extends prior related work. We finally conduct an empirical analysis of our loss functions and methodology on both synthetic and real datasets, to illustrate their computational efficiency, relevance and applicability to real-world scenarios including geophysical data.
title Slicing Unbalanced Optimal Transport
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07176