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Generalizing Point Embeddings using the Wasserstein Space of Elliptical Distributions

NeurIPS 2018 · Learning theory and algorithms › Optimal transport · approach: Wasserstein barycenters and GW · 45 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use elliptical Wasserstein-Bures embeddings instead of diagonal Gaussian embeddingsWord similarity embeddings · WordSim, WordSim-R, WordSim-S, MEN, MC, SimLex, RG, YP, MT-287, MT-771, RWSpearman rank correlation: WordSim 53.45 -> 66.02; SimLex 25.09 -> 24.09; RG 69.77 -> 65.58Mixed
Use elliptical Wasserstein-Bures embeddings instead of diagonal Gaussian cosine embeddingsEntailment embeddings · EntailmentF1: 0.74 -> 0.73Hurt
Use elliptical Wasserstein-Bures embeddings instead of diagonal Gaussian embeddingsEntailment embeddings · Entailmentaverage precision: 0.70 -> 0.70No clear effect
Use elliptical embeddings for MDS rather than point-based standard MDSMDS visualization · PISA scores, 35 OECD countriesnormalized stress: 0.62 -> 5e-3Helped
Use separately normalized mean and covariance cosine terms instead of jointly normalized Wasserstein-Bures cosine (ablation)Elliptical word similarity embeddings · Word similarity benchmarksPearson rank correlationHelped

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