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We analyze optimal transport problems with additional entropic cost evaluated along curves in the Wasserstein space which join two probability measures $m_0,m_1$. The effect of the additional entropy functional results into an elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Alessio Porretta

We propose a novel tensor-on-tensor modeling framework that flexibly models nonlinear voxel-level relationships using Gaussian process (GP) priors, while incorporating the spatial structure of the output tensor through low-rank tensor-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-10 Yajie Liu , Hengrui Luo , Suprateek Kundu

Predictive models can be used on high-dimensional brain images for diagnosis of a clinical condition. Spatial regularization through structured sparsity offers new perspectives in this context and reduces the risk of overfitting the model…

Teaming is the process of establishing connections among agents within a system to enable collaboration toward achieving a collective goal. This paper examines teaming in the context of a network of agents learning to coordinate with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Zhewei Wang , Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

Localizing neuronal activity in the brain, both in time and in space, is a central challenge to advance the understanding of brain function. Because of the inability of any single neuroimaging techniques to cover all aspects at once, there…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-09 Yaroslav O. Halchenko , Michael Hanke , James V. Haxby , Stephen Jose Hanson , Christoph S. Herrmann

We introduce the problem of transporting vector-valued distributions. In this, a salient feature is that mass may flow between vectorial entries as well as across space (discrete or continuous). The theory relies on a first step taken to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

We propose a noninvasive and dispersive framework for estimating the spatially nonuniform conductivity of brain tumors using MR images. The method consists of two components: (i) voxel-wise assignment of tumor conductivity based on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Yoshiki Kubota , Yosuke Nagata , Manabu Tamura , Akimasa Hirata

Interactions and relations between objects may be pairwise or higher-order in nature, and so network-valued data are ubiquitous in the real world. The "space of networks", however, has a complex structure that cannot be adequately described…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Stephen Y Zhang , Fangfei Lan , Youjia Zhou , Agnese Barbensi , Michael P H Stumpf , Bei Wang , Tom Needham

We study a class of mathematical and statistical algorithms with the aim of establishing a computer-based framework for fast and reliable automatic abnormality detection on landmark represented image templates. Under this framework, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-12 S. Huzurbazar , Long Lee , Dongyang Kuang

Decentralized optimization is effective to save communication in large-scale machine learning. Although numerous algorithms have been proposed with theoretical guarantees and empirical successes, the performance limits in decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kun Yuan , Xinmeng Huang , Yiming Chen , Xiaohan Zhang , Yingya Zhang , Pan Pan

In this paper, we study the decentralized optimization problem of minimizing a finite sum of continuously differentiable and possibly nonconvex functions over a fixed-connected undirected network. We propose a unified decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hao Wu , Liping Wang

We propose the use of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein norm from optimal transport in imaging problems. In particular, we discuss a variational regularisation model endowed with a Kantorovich-Rubinstein discrepancy term and total variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jan Lellmann , Dirk A. Lorenz , Carola Schönlieb , Tuomo Valkonen

This paper proposes a novel federated algorithm that leverages momentum-based variance reduction with adaptive learning to address non-convex settings across heterogeneous data. We intend to minimize communication and computation overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dipanwita Thakur , Antonella Guzzo , Giancarlo Fortino , Sajal K. Das

In this paper, we review widely used statistical analysis frameworks for data defined along cortical and subcortical surfaces that have been developed in last two decades. The cerebral cortex has the topology of a 2D highly convoluted…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-15 Moo K. Chung , Jamie L. Hanson , Seth D. Pollak

We study the estimation problem of distribution-on-distribution regression, where both predictors and responses are probability measures. Existing approaches typically rely on a global optimal transport map or tangent-space linearization,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-17 Inga Girshfeld , Xiaohui Chen

Brain extraction and registration are important preprocessing steps in neuroimaging data analysis, where the goal is to extract the brain regions from MRI scans (i.e., extraction step) and align them with a target brain image (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yao Su , Zhentian Qian , Lifang He , Xiangnan Kong

Statistical modeling of fMRI data is challenging as the data are both spatially and temporally correlated. Spatially, measurements are taken at thousands of contiguous regions, called voxels, and temporally measurements are taken at…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-05 Ming Teng , Farouk S. Nathoo , Timothy D. Johnson

In neuroscience, functional brain connectivity describes the connectivity between brain regions that share functional properties. Neuroscientists often characterize it by a time series of covariance matrices between functional measurements…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-09 Zhenhua Lin , Dehan Kong , Qiang Sun

We develop an estimator-based stochastic fixed-point framework for approximately computing the 2-Wasserstein barycenter of continuous, non-parametric probability measures. Notably, we provide the first rigorous convergence analysis for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Zeyi Chen , Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty