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Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

Sampling-based algorithms are widely used for motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces. However, due to low sampling efficiency, their performance often diminishes in complex configuration spaces with narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lu Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

In this paper, we derive a novel optimal image transport algorithm over sparse dictionaries by taking advantage of Sparse Representation (SR) and Optimal Transport (OT). Concisely, we design a unified optimization framework in which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Junqing Huang , Haihui Wang , Andreas Weiermann , Michael Ruzhansky

In the field of optimal transport, two prominent subfields face each other: (i) unregularized optimal transport, "\`a-la-Kantorovich", which leads to extremely sparse plans but with algorithms that scale poorly, and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ehsan Amid , Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock , Manfred K. Warmuth

We show that the discrete Sinkhorn algorithm - as applied in the setting of Optimal Transport on a compact manifold - converges to the solution of a fully non-linear parabolic PDE of Monge-Ampere type, in a large-scale limit. The latter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Robert J. Berman

In this paper, we introduce a class of indicators that enable to compute efficiently optimal transport plans associated to arbitrary distributions of N demands and M supplies in R in the case where the cost function is concave. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Julie Delon , Julien Salomon , Andrei Sobolevskii

The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

Consolidation of loose packages into transport units is a fundamental activity offered by logistics service-providers. Moving the transport units instead of loose packages is faster (with one movement only, multiple packages are loaded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Enrico Angelelli , Claudia Archetti , Lorenzo Peirano

This chapter describes techniques for the numerical resolution of optimal transport problems. We will consider several discretizations of these problems, and we will put a strong focus on the mathematical analysis of the algorithms to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Quentin Merigot , Boris Thibert

We develop both first and second order numerical optimization methods to solve non-smooth optimization problems featuring a shared sparsity penalty, constrained by differential equations with uncertainty. To alleviate the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Harbir Antil , Sergey Dolgov , Akwum Onwunta

We present a bipartite network model that captures intermediate stages of optimization by blending the Maximum Entropy approach with Optimal Transport. In this framework, the network's constraints define the total mass each node can supply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Lorenzo Buffa , Dario Mazzilli , Riccardo Piombo , Fabio Saracco , Giulio Cimini , Aurelio Patelli

In this paper, we study temporal splitting algorithms for multiscale problems. The exact fine-grid spatial problems typically require some reduction in degrees of freedom. Multiscale algorithms are designed to represent the fine-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Yalchin Efendiev , Sai-Mang Pun , Petr N. Vabishchevich

We propose a communicationally and computationally efficient algorithm for high-dimensional distributed sparse learning. At each iteration, local machines compute the gradient on local data and the master machine solves one shifted $l_1$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-12 Jineng Ren , Jarvis Haupt

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

We discuss an algorithm to compute transport maps that couple the uniform measure on $[0,1]^d$ with a specified target distribution $\pi$ on $[0,1]^d$. The primary objectives are either to sample from or to compute expectations w.r.t.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Josephine Westermann , Jakob Zech

In this paper we propose a novel semantic localization algorithm that exploits multiple sensors and has precision on the order of a few centimeters. Our approach does not require detailed knowledge about the appearance of the world, and our…

The efficient solution of sparse, linear systems resulting from the discretization of partial differential equations is crucial to the performance of many physics-based simulations. The algorithmic optimality of multilevel approaches for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Andrew Reisner , Luke N. Olson , J. David Moulton

We develop a semi-discrete optimal transport scheme for the compressible semi-geostrophic equations, a system that plays an important role in modelling large-scale atmospheric dynamics and frontogenesis. Unlike the incompressible case, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Théo Lavier , Beatrice Pelloni

The Sinkhorn algorithm has emerged as a powerful tool for solving optimal transport problems, finding applications in various domains such as machine learning, image processing, and computational biology. Despite its widespread use, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Jose Rafael Espinosa Mena

The scalability of massively parallel algorithms is a fundamental question in computer science. We study the scalability and the efficiency of a conservative massively parallel algorithm for discrete-event simulations where the discrete…

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