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most citedDistributional Sliced-Wasserstein and Applications to Generative Modeling

9 citations · 39 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

stat.ML2026

Amortized Optimal Transport from Sliced Potentials

Minh-Phuc Truong, Khai Nguyen

We propose a novel amortized optimization method for predicting optimal transport (OT) plans across multiple pairs of measures by leveraging Kantorovich potentials derived from sli…

stat.ML2025

Fast Estimation of Wasserstein Distances via Regression on Sliced Wasserstein Distances

Khai Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation…

stat.ML2025

An Introduction to Sliced Optimal Transport

Khai Nguyen

Sliced Optimal Transport (SOT) is a rapidly developing branch of optimal transport (OT) that exploits the tractability of one-dimensional OT problems. By combining tools from OT, i…

cs.LG2025

Streaming Sliced Optimal Transport

Khai Nguyen

Sliced optimal transport (SOT), or sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance, is widely recognized for its statistical and computational scalability. In this work, we further enhance comput…

cs.LG2025

Improving Routing in Sparse Mixture of Experts with Graph of Tokens

Tam Nguyen, Ngoc N. Tran, Khai Nguyen +1

Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) has emerged as a key to achieving unprecedented scalability in deep learning. By activating only a small subset of parameters per sample, SMoE achi…

stat.ME2025

Bayesian Multivariate Density-Density Regression

Khai Nguyen, Yang Ni, Peter Mueller

We introduce a novel and scalable Bayesian framework for multivariate-density-density regression (DDR), designed to model relationships between multivariate distributions. Our appr…

eess.AS2025

Unbiased Sliced Wasserstein Kernels for High-Quality Audio Captioning

Manh Luong, Khai Nguyen, Dinh Phung +2

Audio captioning systems face a fundamental challenge: teacher-forcing training creates exposure bias that leads to caption degeneration during inference. While contrastive methods…

cs.LG2025

Lightspeed Geometric Dataset Distance via Sliced Optimal Transport

Khai Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Tuan Pham +1

We introduce sliced optimal transport dataset distance (s-OTDD), a model-agnostic, embedding-agnostic approach for dataset comparison that requires no training, is robust to variat…

stat.ME2024

Summarizing Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Posterior -- Sliced Optimal Transport Metrics for Gaussian Mixtures

Khai Nguyen, Peter Mueller

Existing methods to summarize posterior inference for mixture models focus on identifying a point estimate of the implied random partition for clustering, with density estimation a…

eess.AS2024

Revisiting Deep Audio-Text Retrieval Through the Lens of Transportation

Manh Luong, Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho +3

The Learning-to-match (LTM) framework proves to be an effective inverse optimal transport approach for learning the underlying ground metric between two sources of data, facilitati…

stat.ML2024

Data-Driven DRO and Economic Decision Theory: An Analytical Synthesis With Bayesian Nonparametric Advancements

Nicola Bariletto, Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

We develop an analytical synthesis that bridges data-driven Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) and Economic Decision Theory under Ambiguity (DTA). By reinterpreting standar…

stat.ML2024

Towards Marginal Fairness Sliced Wasserstein Barycenter

Khai Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

The sliced Wasserstein barycenter (SWB) is a widely acknowledged method for efficiently generalizing the averaging operation within probability measure spaces. However, achieving m…

cs.CV2024

Hierarchical Hybrid Sliced Wasserstein: A Scalable Metric for Heterogeneous Joint Distributions

Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) and Generalized Sliced Wasserstein (GSW) have been widely used in applications due to their computational and statistical scalability. However, the SW and t…

cs.CV2024

Integrating Efficient Optimal Transport and Functional Maps For Unsupervised Shape Correspondence Learning

Tung Le, Khai Nguyen, Shanlin Sun +2

In the realm of computer vision and graphics, accurately establishing correspondences between geometric 3D shapes is pivotal for applications like object tracking, registration, te…

stat.ML2024

On Parameter Estimation in Deviated Gaussian Mixture of Experts

Huy Nguyen, Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

We consider the parameter estimation problem in the deviated Gaussian mixture of experts in which the data are generated from $(1 - λ^{\ast}) g_0(Y| X)+ λ^{\ast} \sum_{i = 1}^{k_{\…

stat.ML2024

Sliced Wasserstein with Random-Path Projecting Directions

Khai Nguyen, Shujian Zhang, Tam Le +1

Slicing distribution selection has been used as an effective technique to improve the performance of parameter estimators based on minimizing sliced Wasserstein distance in applica…

stat.ML2023

Quasi-Monte Carlo for 3D Sliced Wasserstein

Khai Nguyen, Nicola Bariletto, Nhat Ho

Monte Carlo (MC) integration has been employed as the standard approximation method for the Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance, whose analytical expression involves an intractable ex…

cs.CV2023

Diffeomorphic Mesh Deformation via Efficient Optimal Transport for Cortical Surface Reconstruction

Tung Le, Khai Nguyen, Shanlin Sun +3

Mesh deformation plays a pivotal role in many 3D vision tasks including dynamic simulations, rendering, and reconstruction. However, defining an efficient discrepancy between predi…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Towards Convergence Rates for Parameter Estimation in Gaussian-gated Mixture of Experts

Huy Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen, Khai Nguyen +1

Originally introduced as a neural network for ensemble learning, mixture of experts (MoE) has recently become a fundamental building block of highly successful modern deep neural n…

stat.ML2023

Sliced Wasserstein Estimation with Control Variates

Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

The sliced Wasserstein (SW) distances between two probability measures are defined as the expectation of the Wasserstein distance between two one-dimensional projections of the two…

stat.ML2023★ 3 cited

Energy-Based Sliced Wasserstein Distance

Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

The sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has been widely recognized as a statistically effective and computationally efficient metric between two probability measures. A key component…

math.ST2023

Minimax Optimal Rate for Parameter Estimation in Multivariate Deviated Models

Dat Do, Huy Nguyen, Khai Nguyen +1

We study the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) in the multivariate deviated model where the data are generated from the density function $(1-λ^{\ast})h_{0}(x)+λ^{\ast}f(x|μ^{\ast…

stat.ML2023★ 2 cited

Self-Attention Amortized Distributional Projection Optimization for Sliced Wasserstein Point-Cloud Reconstruction

Khai Nguyen, Dang Nguyen, Nhat Ho

Max sliced Wasserstein (Max-SW) distance has been widely known as a solution for less discriminative projections of sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance. In applications that have vari…

stat.ML2023

Markovian Sliced Wasserstein Distances: Beyond Independent Projections

Khai Nguyen, Tongzheng Ren, Nhat Ho

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance suffers from redundant projections due to independent uniform random projecting directions. To partially overcome the issue, max K sliced Wasserste…