This paper examines how metric adjustments to Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) can enhance its effectiveness as a visual tool for pattern recognition. The distance under consideration, referred to as Max-D-SW, is an adjustment of the Max-Sliced Wasserstein distance.
arXiv:2606. 30310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has emerged as a computationally attractive alternative to the Wasserstein distance by leveraging one-dimensional optimal transport along random projections.
By Christophe Vauthier, Quentin M\'erigot, Anna Korba
arXiv:2605. 09916v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal transport in large-scale, non-Euclidean datasets.
By Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos, Leandro Vicente Mauri, Washington Mio, Tom Needham
arXiv:2405. 15768v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we address the classification of instances represented by distributions on a vector space rather than single points.
By Jia Li, Lin Lin
arXiv:2605. 14981v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system.
By Ao Xu, Tieru Wu
arXiv:2505. 06835v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sliced optimal transport (SOT), or sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance, is widely recognized for its statistical and computational scalability.
By Khai Nguyen
arXiv:2510. 01015v3 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wasserstein metrics are increasingly adopted as similarity scores for images.
By Erik Lager, Gilles Mordant, Amit Moscovich
arXiv:2607. 20119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Directional Kernel Mean Difference (DKMD), a signed statistic for univariate distribution comparison that preserves the direction of distributional shifts.
By Shijie Zhong, Jiangfeng Fu
arXiv:2608. 13418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given a dataset where a portion of the samples are contaminated, our goal is to recover the underlying clean population distribution.
By Yikai Xu, Zhao Chen, Jian Huang
arXiv:2602. 04272v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Importance-Weighted Evidence Lower Bound (IW-ELBO) has emerged as an effective objective for variational inference (VI), tightening the standard ELBO and mitigating the mode-seeking behaviour.
By Peiwen Jiang, Takuo Matsubara, Minh-Ngoc Tran
arXiv:2606. 06104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) offers noninvasive, millisecond resolution recordings of neuronal activity and is widely used in neuroscience and healthcare.
By Chen Hu, Rui Wang, Jiale Zhou, Jingjun Yi, Shaocheng Jin, Yidong Song, Yefeng Zheng
arXiv:2606. 27767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimizing functionals over the space of probability measures is now ubiquitous in machine learning.
By Cl\'ement Bonet, Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski, Youssef Mroueh