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New algorithm offers provable convergence for Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport

Researchers have developed a new algorithm for Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) that addresses the challenges of large-scale applications. The proposed method introduces an inexact projected-gradient framework with a novel feasibility-residual-based condition for the projection subproblem. This condition is directly computable and allows for rigorous convergence guarantees to stationary points, making GWOT a more principled and scalable approach. AI

IMPACT Introduces a more reliable and scalable method for Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport, potentially improving applications in areas like domain adaptation and data matching.

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New algorithm offers provable convergence for Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ling Liang, Lei Yang ·

    A Provably Convergent and Practical Algorithm for Gromov--Wasserstein Optimal Transport

    arXiv:2605.04175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) aligns metric measure spaces by matching their within-domain relational structures, but large-scale GWOT remains challenging because its objective is nonconvex and projection onto the tra…