Transport maps
Inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling…
April 3, 2018 — February 21, 2023
Maps moving one probability measure into another. Most commonly seen in normalising flows. Useful in their own right. If we assign costs to various maps and then prefer some to others, then we are in the realm of optimal transport metrics.
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