@conference {1574,
	title = {Learning with a Wasserstein Loss},
	booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015) 28},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {<p>Learning to predict multi-label outputs is challenging, but in many problems there is a natural metric on the outputs that can be used to improve predictions. In this paper we develop a loss function for multi-label learning, based on the Wasserstein distance. The Wasserstein distance provides a natural notion of dissimilarity for probability measures. Although optimizing with respect to the exact Wasserstein distance is costly, recent work has described a regularized approximation that is efficiently computed. We describe an efficient learning algorithm based on this regularization, as well as a novel extension of the Wasserstein distance from prob- ability measures to unnormalized measures. We also describe a statistical learning bound for the loss. The Wasserstein loss can encourage smoothness of the predic- tions with respect to a chosen metric on the output space. We demonstrate this property on a real-data tag prediction problem, using the Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons dataset, outperforming a baseline that doesn{\textquoteright}t use the metric.</p>
},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05439},
	author = {Charlie Frogner and Chiyuan Zhang and Hossein Mobahi and Mauricio Araya-Polo and Tomaso Poggio}
}
