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D-CLOT: Double Closed Loop Optimal Transport for Unsupervised Action Segmentation

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arXiv:2608. 05877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimal transport (OT) has emerged as an effective framework for unsupervised action segmentation.

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