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\emph{Optimal Transport} (OT) has emerged as an important computational tool in machine learning and computer vision, providing a geometrical framework for studying probability measures. OT unfortunately suffers from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Anton Mallasto

We consider the numerical solution of the discrete multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) by means of the Sinkhorn algorithm. In general, the Sinkhorn algorithm suffers from the curse of dimensionality with respect to the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Fatima Antarou Ba , Michael Quellmalz

Various theoretical methods address transport effects in quantum dots beyond single-electron tunneling while accounting for the strong interactions in such systems. In this paper we report a detailed comparison between three prominent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 Sonja Koller , Martin Leijnse , Maarten R. Wegewijs , Milena Grifoni

Quantum optimal control (QOC) provides a systematic framework for achieving high-fidelity operations in quantum systems and plays a central role in tasks such as gate synthesis, state transfer, and pulse design. Existing QOC methods broadly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zeki Zeybek , Rick Mukherjee , Peter Schmelcher

We consider statistical learning problems in which data are observed as a set of probability measures. Optimal transport (OT) is a popular tool to compare and manipulate such objects, but its computational cost becomes prohibitive when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Erell Gachon , Elsa Cazelles , Jérémie Bigot

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

We establish quantitative global stability estimates, formulated in terms of optimal transport (OT) cost, for inverse point-source problems governed by elliptic and parabolic equations with spatially varying coefficients. The key idea is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Lingyun Qiu , Shenwen Yu

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique in machine learning, graphics, and vision that aligns two distributions or datasets using their relative geometry. In symmetry-rich settings, however, OT alignments based solely on pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Annabel Ma , Kaiying Hou , David Alvarez-Melis , Melanie Weber

This work presents a method for information fusion in source localization applications. The method utilizes the concept of optimal mass transport in order to construct estimates of the spatial spectrum using a convex barycenter formulation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler , Andreas Jakobsson , Johan Karlsson

In this work, we study the optimal transport (OT) problem between symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix-valued measures. We formulate the above as a generalized optimal transport problem where the cost, the marginals, and the coupling…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Junbin Gao

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

The Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that connects two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. Finding such a transport map has diverse applications in machine learning, such as generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi

Optimal transport is a machine learning problem with applications including distribution comparison, feature selection, and generative adversarial networks. In this paper, we propose feature-robust optimal transport (FROT) for…

Non-negative matrix and tensor factorisations are a classical tool for finding low-dimensional representations of high-dimensional datasets. In applications such as imaging, datasets can be regarded as distributions supported on a space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-16 Stephen Y. Zhang

Vector quantile regression (VQR) is an optimal transport (OT)-based framework that extends linear quantile regression to vector-valued response variables and can be formulated as an OT problem with a mean-independence constraint. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Kengo Kato , Boyu Wang

We explore the near-term intersection of quantum computing with the transport sector. To support near-term integration, we introduce a framework for assessing the suitability of transport optimization problems for obtaining potential…

In this paper, we study the Entropic Martingale Optimal Transport (EMOT) problem on \mathbb{R}. The investigation of the EMOT problem arises in the calibration problem of the Stochastic Volatility Models, where martingale constraints…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Fan Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaozhen Wang

The Sinkhorn algorithm is a numerical method for the solution of optimal transport problems. Here, I give a brief survey of this algorithm, with a strong emphasis on its geometric origin: it is natural to view it as a discretization, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Klas Modin

The mismatch capacity characterizes the highest information rate of the channel under a prescribed decoding metric and serves as a critical performance indicator in numerous practical communication scenarios. Compared to the commonly used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Xinwei Li , Lingyi Chen , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

The goal of this paper is to introduce a new theoretical framework for Optimal Transport (OT), using the terminology and techniques of Fully Probabilistic Design (FPD). Optimal Transport is the canonical method for comparing probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sarah Boufelja Y. , Anthony Quinn , Martin Corless , Robert Shorten