Title
The Shape of Data: Intrinsic Distance for Data Distributions
Abstract
The ability to represent and compare machine learning models is crucial in order to quantify subtle model changes, evaluate generative models, and gather insights on neural network architectures. Existing techniques for comparing data distributions focus on global data properties such as mean and covariance; in that sense, they are extrinsic and uni-scale. We develop a first-of-its-kind intrinsic and multi-scale method for characterizing and comparing data manifolds, using a lower-bound of the spectral variant of the Gromov-Wasserstein inter-manifold distance, which compares all data moments. In a thorough experimental study, we demonstrate that our method effectively discerns the structure of data manifolds even on unaligned data of different dimensionalities; moreover, we showcase its efficacy in evaluating the quality of generative models.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2020
ICLR
Deep Learning, Generative Models, Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction, Manifold Learning, Similarity and Distance Learning, Spectral Methods
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
30
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anton Tsitsulin1453.46
Munkhoeva, Marina242.43
Davide Mottin318118.07
Panagiotis Karras482451.33
Alexander M. Bronstein52978143.17
Ivan V. Oseledets630641.96
Emmanuel Müller790552.02