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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

stat.ML2022

Fast Approximation of the Generalized Sliced-Wasserstein Distance

Dung Le, Huy Nguyen, Khai Nguyen +2

Generalized sliced Wasserstein distance is a variant of sliced Wasserstein distance that exploits the power of non-linear projection through a given defining function to better cap…

stat.ML2022★ 3 cited

Hierarchical Sliced Wasserstein Distance

Khai Nguyen, Tongzheng Ren, Huy Nguyen +3

Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has been widely used in different application scenarios since it can be scaled to a large number of supports without suffering from the curse of di…

stat.ML2022★ 4 cited

Amortized Projection Optimization for Sliced Wasserstein Generative Models

Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho

Seeking informative projecting directions has been an important task in utilizing sliced Wasserstein distance in applications. However, finding these directions usually requires an…

stat.ML2021★ 4 cited

Improving Mini-batch Optimal Transport via Partial Transportation

Khai Nguyen, Dang Nguyen, The-Anh Vu-Le +2

Mini-batch optimal transport (m-OT) has been widely used recently to deal with the memory issue of OT in large-scale applications. Despite their practicality, m-OT suffers from mis…

stat.ML2021

On Multimarginal Partial Optimal Transport: Equivalent Forms and Computational Complexity

Khang Le, Huy Nguyen, Tung Pham +1

We study the multi-marginal partial optimal transport (POT) problem between discrete (unbalanced) measures with at most supports. We first prove that we can obtain two equi…

stat.ML2021★ 4 cited

On Transportation of Mini-batches: A Hierarchical Approach

Khai Nguyen, Dang Nguyen, Quoc Nguyen +5

Mini-batch optimal transport (m-OT) has been successfully used in practical applications that involve probability measures with a very high number of supports. The m-OT solves seve…

stat.ML2020

Improving Relational Regularized Autoencoders with Spherical Sliced Fused Gromov Wasserstein

Khai Nguyen, Son Nguyen, Nhat Ho +2

Relational regularized autoencoder (RAE) is a framework to learn the distribution of data by minimizing a reconstruction loss together with a relational regularization on the laten…

stat.ML2020★ 9 cited

Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein and Applications to Generative Modeling

Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Tung Pham +1

Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) and its variant, Max Sliced-Wasserstein distance (Max-SW), have been used widely in the recent years due to their fast computation and scalability…