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Poster

Robust Barycenter Estimation using Semi-Unbalanced Neural Optimal Transport

Milena Gazdieva · Jaemoo Choi · Alexander Kolesov · Jaewoong Choi · Petr Mokrov · Aleksandr Korotin

Hall 3 + Hall 2B #156
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Wed 23 Apr 7 p.m. PDT — 9:30 p.m. PDT

Abstract: Aggregating data from multiple sources can be formalized as an *Optimal Transport* (OT) barycenter problem, which seeks to compute the average of probability distributions with respect to OT discrepancies. However, in real-world scenarios, the presence of outliers and noise in the data measures can significantly hinder the performance of traditional statistical methods for estimating OT barycenters. To address this issue, we propose a novel scalable approach for estimating the *robust* continuous barycenter, leveraging the dual formulation of the *(semi-)unbalanced* OT problem. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first attempt to develop an algorithm for robust barycenters under the continuous distribution setup. Our method is framed as a min-max optimization problem and is adaptable to *general* cost functions. We rigorously establish the theoretical underpinnings of the proposed method and demonstrate its robustness to outliers and class imbalance through a number of illustrative experiments. Our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/milenagazdieva/U-NOTBarycenters.

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