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In recent years, the machine learning community has increasingly embraced the optimal transport (OT) framework for modeling distributional relationships. In this work, we introduce a sample-based neural solver for computing the Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hailiang Liu , Yan-Han Chen

We propose a variational model with diffeomorphic optimal transportation for joint image reconstruction and motion estimation. The proposed model is a production of assembling the Wasserstein distance with the Benamou--Brenier formula in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Chong Chen

Full waveform inversion (FWI) enables us to obtain high-resolution velocity models of the subsurface. However, estimating the associated uncertainties in the process is not trivial. Commonly, uncertainty estimation is performed within the…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-16 Muhammad Izzatullah , Matteo Ravasi , Tariq Alkhalifah

We propose a new clustering method based on optimal transportation. We solve optimal transportation with variational principles, and investigate the use of power diagrams as transportation plans for aggregating arbitrary domains into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Liang Mi , Wen Zhang , Xianfeng Gu , Yalin Wang

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is beginning to be used to characterize weak seismic events at different scales, an example of which is microseismic event (MSE) characterization. However, FWI with unknown sources is a severely underdetermined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto , Alison Malcolm

Full waveform inversion (FWI) aims at estimating subsurface medium properties from measured seismic data. It is usually cast as a non-linear least-squares problem that incorporates uncertainties in the measurements. In exploration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tristan van Leeuwen

A quadratic optimal transport metric on the set of probability measure over $\R^2$ is introduced. The quadratic cost is given by the euclidean norm on $\R^2$ associated to some well chosen symmetric positive matrix, which makes the metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Samir Salem

In this work, we propose a full-waveform technique for the spatial reconstruction and characterization of (micro-) seismic events via joint source location and moment tensor inversion. The approach is formulated in the frequency domain, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alan A. S. Amad , Antonio A. Novotny , Bojan B. Guzina

Computing optimal transport (OT) between measures in high dimensions is doomed by the curse of dimensionality. A popular approach to avoid this curse is to project input measures on lower-dimensional subspaces (1D lines in the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

This paper is focused on the study of entropic regularization in optimal transport as a smoothing method for Wasserstein estimators, through the prism of the classical tradeoff between approximation and estimation errors in statistics.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Jérémie Bigot , Paul Freulon , Boris P. Hejblum , Arthur Leclaire

The subject of this paper is the estimation of a probability measure on ${\mathbb R}^d$ from data observed with an additive noise, under the Wasserstein metric of order $p$ (with $p\geq 1$). We assume that the distribution of the errors is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Jérôme Dedecker , Bertrand Michel

This paper deals with the 3/4-discrete 2-Wasserstein optimal transport between two measures, where one is supported by a set of segment and the other one is supported by a set of Dirac masses. We select the most suitable optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat

Data unfolding -- the removal of noise or artifacts from measurements -- is a fundamental task across the experimental sciences. Of particular interest are applications in physics, where the dominant approach is Richardson-Lucy (RL)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Katy Craig , Benjamin Faktor , Benjamin Nachman

We optimize the path of a mobile sensor to minimize the posterior uncertainty of a Bayesian inverse problem. Along its path, the sensor continuously takes measurements of the state, which is a physical quantity modeled as the solution of a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Nicole Aretz , Thomas Lynn , Karen Willcox , Sven Leyffer

We introduce the Gaussian transform (GT), an optimal transport inspired iterative method for denoising and enhancing latent structures in datasets. Under the hood, GT generates a new distance function (GT distance) on a given dataset by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Kun Jin , Facundo Mémoli , Zhengchao Wan

Inversion techniques are widely used to reconstruct subsurface physical properties (e.g., velocity, conductivity) from surface-based geophysical measurements (e.g., seismic, electric/magnetic (EM) data). The problems are governed by partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Shihang Feng , Peng Jin , Zicheng Liu , Youzuo Lin

Let $M$ be a complete connected Riemannian manifold. For $n \geq 0$, we endow the Wasserstein space $P^{(n)}_2(M) = P_2(\ldots P_2(M)\ldots)$, equipped with the Wasserstein distance $W_2$, with a variational structure that generalizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Christophe Vauthier

The computation of Wasserstein gradient direction is essential for posterior sampling problems and scientific computing. The approximation of the Wasserstein gradient with finite samples requires solving a variational problem. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yifei Wang , Peng Chen , Mert Pilanci , Wuchen Li

We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

This paper proposes an efficient numerical optimization approach for solving dynamic optimal transport (DOT) problems on general smooth surfaces, computing both the quadratic Wasserstein distance and the associated transportation path.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Liang Chen , Youyicun Lin , Yuxuan Zhou