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Crowd dynamics and many large biological systems can be described as populations of agents or particles, which can only be observed on aggregate population level. Identifying the dynamics of agents is crucial for understanding these large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler

We introduce a transport-majorization argument that establishes a majorization in the convex order between two densities, based on control of the gradient of a transportation map between them. As applications, we give elementary derivations…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

Accurate forecasting of bus travel time and its uncertainty is critical to service quality and operation of transit systems; for example, it can help passengers make better decisions on departure time, route choice, and even transport mode…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-15 Xiaoxu Chen , Zhanhong Cheng , Jian Gang Jin , Martin Trepanier , Lijun Sun

We present a general convex relaxation approach to study a wide class of Unbalanced Optimal Transport problems for finite non-negative measures with possibly different masses. These are obtained as the lower semicontinuous and convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Giuseppe Savaré , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

A novel framework for density estimation under expectation constraints is proposed. The framework minimizes the Wasserstein distance between the estimated density and a prior, subject to the constraints that the expected value of a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Yinan Hu , Esteban G. Tabak

Discrete optimal transportation problems arise in various contexts in engineering, the sciences and the social sciences. Often the underlying cost criterion is unknown, or only partly known, and the observed optimal solutions are corrupted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Andrew M. Stuart , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Density estimation, which estimates the distribution of data, is an important category of probabilistic machine learning. A family of density estimators is mixture models, such as Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) by expectation maximization.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Benyamin Ghojogh , Milad Amir Toutounchian

Inspired by the analysis of variance (ANOVA) decomposition of functions we propose a Gaussian-Uniform mixture model on the high-dimensional torus which relies on the assumption that the function we wish to approximate can be well explained…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Johannes Hertrich , Fatima Antarou Ba , Gabriele Steidl

We propose Gaussian optimal transport for Image style transfer in an Encoder/Decoder framework. Optimal transport for Gaussian measures has closed forms Monge mappings from source to target distributions. Moreover interpolates between a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Youssef Mroueh

Diffusion models have recently outperformed alternative approaches to model the distribution of natural images, such as GANs. Such diffusion models allow for deterministic sampling via the probability flow ODE, giving rise to a latent space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-06 Valentin Khrulkov , Gleb Ryzhakov , Andrei Chertkov , Ivan Oseledets

When constructing a Bayesian Machine Learning model, we might be faced with multiple different prior distributions and thus are required to properly consider them in a sensible manner in our model. While this situation is reasonably well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sarem Seitz

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

Autonomous agents must be able to safely interact with other vehicles to integrate into urban environments. The safety of these agents is dependent on their ability to predict collisions with other vehicles' future trajectories for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Andrew Patterson , Aditya Gahlawat , Naira Hovakimyan

Adapting large-scale foundation models to new domains with limited supervision remains a fundamental challenge due to latent distribution mismatch, unstable optimization dynamics, and miscalibrated uncertainty propagation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut , Kuepon Auewattanapisut

Finite mixture of Gaussian distributions provide a flexible semi-parametric methodology for density estimation when the variables under investigation have no boundaries. However, in practical applications variables may be partially bounded…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-30 Luca Scrucca

Contextual optimization enhances decision quality by leveraging side information to improve predictions of uncertain parameters. However, existing approaches face significant challenges when dealing with multimodal or mixtures of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 YoungChul Yoon , Grani A. Hanasusanto , Yijie Wang

Classical optimal transport problem seeks a transportation map that preserves the total mass betwenn two probability distributions, requiring their mass to be the same. This may be too restrictive in certain applications such as color or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-15 Laetitia Chapel , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Gilles Gasso

Subsampling methods aim to select a subsample as a surrogate for the observed sample. Such methods have been used pervasively in large-scale data analytics, active learning, and privacy-preserving analysis in recent decades. Instead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-03 Jingyi Zhang , Cheng Meng , Jun Yu , Mengrui Zhang , Wenxuan Zhong , Ping Ma

In this work, we utilize a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to capture the underlying probability density function (PDF) of the channel trajectories of moving mobile terminals (MTs) within the coverage area of a base station (BS) in an offline…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Böck , Kai Jie Chan , Benedikt Fesl , Friedrich Burmeister , Michael Joham , Gerhard Fettweis , Wolfgang Utschick

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang