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Nicolas Courty

23 accepted papers

2025

Bridging Arbitrary and Tree Metrics via Differentiable Gromov Hyperbolicity

NeurIPS 2025poster

Trees and the associated shortest-path tree metrics provide a powerful framework for representing hierarchical and combinatorial structures in data. Given an arbitrary metric space, its deviation from a tree metric can be quantified by Gromov’s $\delta$-hyperbolicity. Nonetheless, designing algorith…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Train Till You Drop: Towards Stable and Robust Source-free Unsupervised 3D Domain Adaptation

ECCV 2024poster

"We tackle the challenging problem of source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) for 3D semantic segmentation. It amounts to performing domain adaptation on an unlabeled target domain without any access to source data; the available information is a model trained to achieve good performance…

2023

Fast Optimal Transport through Sliced Generalized Wasserstein Geodesics

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Wasserstein distance (WD) and the associated optimal transport plan have been proven useful in many applications where probability measures are at stake. In this paper, we propose a new proxy of the squared WD, coined $\textnormal{min-SWGG}$, that is based on the transport map induced by an optimal…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

SNEkhorn: Dimension Reduction with Symmetric Entropic Affinities

NeurIPS 2023poster

Many approaches in machine learning rely on a weighted graph to encode the similarities between samples in a dataset. Entropic affinities (EAs), which are notably used in the popular Dimensionality Reduction (DR) algorithm t-SNE, are particular instances of such graphs. To ensure robustness to heter…

2023

Sliced-Wasserstein on Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices for M/EEG Signals

ICML 2023poster

When dealing with electro or magnetoencephalography records, many supervised prediction tasks are solved by working with covariance matrices to summarize the signals. Learning with these matrices requires the usage of Riemanian geometry to account for their structure. In this paper, we propose a new…

Cited by 27SourcePDFScholar
2023

Spherical Sliced-Wasserstein

ICLR 2023poster

Many variants of the Wasserstein distance have been introduced to reduce its original computational burden. In particular the Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW), which leverages one-dimensional projections for which a closed-form solution of the Wasserstein distance is available, has received a lot of…

2023

Unbalanced CO-optimal Transport

AAAI 2023technical

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this approach leads to better alignments and generalizes both OT an…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2022

Aligning individual brains with fused unbalanced Gromov Wasserstein

NeurIPS 2022accept

Individual brains vary in both anatomy and functional organization, even within a given species. Inter-individual variability is a major impediment when trying to draw generalizable conclusions from neuroimaging data collected on groups of subjects. Current co-registration procedures rely on limited…

2022

Semi-relaxed Gromov-Wasserstein divergence and applications on graphs

ICLR 2022poster

Comparing structured objects such as graphs is a fundamental operation involved in many learning tasks. To this end, the Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance, based on Optimal Transport (OT), has proven to be successful in handling the specific nature of the associated objects. More specifically, throug…

Cited by 52SourcePDFScholar
2022

Template based Graph Neural Network with Optimal Transport Distances

NeurIPS 2022accept

Current Graph Neural Networks (GNN) architectures generally rely on two important components: node features embedding through message passing, and aggregation with a specialized form of pooling. The structural (or topological) information is implicitly taken into account in these two steps. We propo…

2021

Online Graph Dictionary Learning

ICML 2021spotlight

Dictionary learning is a key tool for representation learning, that explains the data as linear combination of few basic elements. Yet, this analysis is not amenable in the context of graph learning, as graphs usually belong to different metric spaces. We fill this gap by proposing a new online Grap…

2021

Unbalanced minibatch Optimal Transport; applications to Domain Adaptation

ICML 2021spotlight

Optimal transport distances have found many applications in machine learning for their capacity to compare non-parametric probability distributions. Yet their algorithmic complexity generally prevents their direct use on large scale datasets. Among the possible strategies to alleviate this issue, pr…

2020

Learning with minibatch Wasserstein : asymptotic and gradient properties

AISTATS 2020poster

Optimal transport distances are powerful tools to compare probability distributions and have found many applications in machine learning. Yet their algorithmic complexity prevents their direct use on large scale datasets. To overcome this challenge, practitioners compute these distances on minibatch…

2019

Optimal Transport for Multi-source Domain Adaptation under Target Shift

AISTATS 2019poster

In this paper, we tackle the problem of reducing discrepancies between multiple domains, i.e. multi-source domain adaptation, and consider it under the target shift assumption: in all domains we aim to solve a classification problem with the same output classes, but with different labels proportions…

2019

Optimal Transport for structured data with application on graphs

ICML 2019oral

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance ( i.e. that minimizes a total cost of transporting probability masses) that unveils the…

Cited by 207SourcePDFScholar
2019

Sliced Gromov-Wasserstein

NeurIPS 2019poster

Recently used in various machine learning contexts, the Gromov-Wasserstein distance (GW) allows for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie in the same metric space. However, this Optimal Transport (OT) distance requires solving a complex non convex quadratic program which is…

2018

DeepJDOT: Deep Joint Distribution Optimal Transport for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

ECCV 2018poster

In computer vision, one is often confronted with problems of domain shifts, which occur when one applies a classifier trained on a source dataset to target data sharing similar characteristics (e.g. same classes), but also different latent data structures (e.g. different acquisition conditions). In…

Cited by 579SourcePDFScholar
2018

Large Scale Optimal Transport and Mapping Estimation

ICLR 2018poster

This paper presents a novel two-step approach for the fundamental problem of learning an optimal map from one distribution to another. First, we learn an optimal transport (OT) plan, which can be thought as a one-to-many map between the two distributions. To that end, we propose a stochastic dual ap…

Cited by 291SourcePDFScholar
2017

Joint distribution optimal transportation for domain adaptation

NeurIPS 2017poster

This paper deals with the unsupervised domain adaptation problem, where one wants to estimate a prediction function $f$ in a given target domain without any labeled sample by exploiting the knowledge available from a source domain where labels are known. Our work makes the following assumption: ther…

2016

Mapping Estimation for Discrete Optimal Transport

NeurIPS 2016poster

We are interested in the computation of the transport map of an Optimal Transport problem. Most of the computational approaches of Optimal Transport use the Kantorovich relaxation of the problem to learn a probabilistic coupling $\mgamma$ but do not address the problem of learning the underlying tra…

Cited by 150SourcePDFScholar
2016

Optimal spectral transportation with application to music transcription

NeurIPS 2016poster

Many spectral unmixing methods rely on the non-negative decomposition of spectral data onto a dictionary of spectral templates. In particular, state-of-the-art music transcription systems decompose the spectrogram of the input signal onto a dictionary of representative note spectra. The typical meas…