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Optimal transport for vector Gaussian mixture models
Vector Gaussian mixture models form an important special subset of
vector-valued distributions. Any physical entity that can mutate or transit
among alternative manifestations distributed in a given space falls into this
category. A key example is color imagery. In this note, we vectorize the
Gaussian mixture model and study different optimal mass transport related
problems for such models. The benefits of using vector Gaussian mixture for
optimal mass transport include computational efficiency and the ability to
preserve structure
A multi-material transport problem and its convex relaxation via rectifiable -currents
In this paper we study a variant of the branched transportation problem, that
we call multi-material transport problem. This is a transportation problem,
where distinct commodities are transported simultaneously along a network. The
cost of the transportation depends on the network used to move the masses, as
it is common in models studied in branched transportation. The main novelty is
that in our model the cost per unit length of the network does not depend only
on the total flow, but on the actual quantity of each commodity. This allows to
take into account different interactions between the transported goods. We
propose an Eulerian formulation of the discrete problem, describing the flow of
each commodity through every point of the network. We provide minimal
assumptions on the cost, under which existence of solutions can be proved.
Moreover, we prove that, under mild additional assumptions, the problem can be
rephrased as a mass minimization problem in a class of rectifiable currents
with coefficients in a group, allowing to introduce a notion of calibration.
The latter result is new even in the well studied framework of the
"single-material" branched transportation.Comment: Accepted: SIAM J. Math. Ana
Dynamical Optimal Transport on Discrete Surfaces
We propose a technique for interpolating between probability distributions on
discrete surfaces, based on the theory of optimal transport. Unlike previous
attempts that use linear programming, our method is based on a dynamical
formulation of quadratic optimal transport proposed for flat domains by Benamou
and Brenier [2000], adapted to discrete surfaces. Our structure-preserving
construction yields a Riemannian metric on the (finite-dimensional) space of
probability distributions on a discrete surface, which translates the so-called
Otto calculus to discrete language. From a practical perspective, our technique
provides a smooth interpolation between distributions on discrete surfaces with
less diffusion than state-of-the-art algorithms involving entropic
regularization. Beyond interpolation, we show how our discrete notion of
optimal transport extends to other tasks, such as distribution-valued Dirichlet
problems and time integration of gradient flows
Manifold-valued Image Generation with Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Nets
Generative modeling over natural images is one of the most fundamental
machine learning problems. However, few modern generative models, including
Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Nets (WGANs), are studied on manifold-valued
images that are frequently encountered in real-world applications. To fill the
gap, this paper first formulates the problem of generating manifold-valued
images and exploits three typical instances: hue-saturation-value (HSV) color
image generation, chromaticity-brightness (CB) color image generation, and
diffusion-tensor (DT) image generation. For the proposed generative modeling
problem, we then introduce a theorem of optimal transport to derive a new
Wasserstein distance of data distributions on complete manifolds, enabling us
to achieve a tractable objective under the WGAN framework. In addition, we
recommend three benchmark datasets that are CIFAR-10 HSV/CB color images,
ImageNet HSV/CB color images, UCL DT image datasets. On the three datasets, we
experimentally demonstrate the proposed manifold-aware WGAN model can generate
more plausible manifold-valued images than its competitors.Comment: Accepted by AAAI 201
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