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We propose a new regularized optimal transport (OT) formulation, termed sliced-regularized optimal transport (SROT). Unlike entropic OT (EOT), which regularizes the transport plan toward an independent coupling, SROT regularizes it toward a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Khai Nguyen

We study multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) problems where the underlying cost has a graphical structure. These graphical multi-marginal optimal transport problems have found applications in several domains including traffic flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

The optimal transport (OT) problem has gained significant traction in modern machine learning for its ability to: (1) provide versatile metrics, such as Wasserstein distances and their variants, and (2) determine optimal couplings between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinran Liu , Rocío Díaz Martín , Yikun Bai , Ashkan Shahbazi , Matthew Thorpe , Akram Aldroubi , Soheil Kolouri

Machine learning systems operate under the assumption that training and test data are sampled from a fixed probability distribution. However, this assumptions is rarely verified in practice, as the conditions upon which data was acquired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Fred Maurice Ngolè Mboula , Antoine Souloumiac

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

This paper presents a unified framework for smooth convex regularization of discrete optimal transport problems. In this context, the regularized optimal transport turns out to be equivalent to a matrix nearness problem with respect to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Arnaud Dessein , Nicolas Papadakis , Jean-Luc Rouas

Optimal transport (OT) distances between probability distributions are parameterized by the ground metric they use between observations. Their relevance for real-life applications strongly hinges on whether that ground metric parameter is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-06 Matthieu Heitz , Nicolas Bonneel , David Coeurjolly , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

Given two probability densities on related data spaces, we seek a map pushing one density to the other while satisfying application-dependent constraints. For maps to have utility in a broad application space (including domain translation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Nishant Panda , Natalie Klein , Dominic Yang , Patrick Gasda , Diane Oyen

Inspired by the matching of supply to demand in logistical problems, the optimal transport (or Monge--Kantorovich) problem involves the matching of probability distributions defined over a geometric domain such as a surface or manifold. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Justin Solomon

Transport systems on networks are crucial in various applications, but face a significant risk of being adversely affected by unforeseen circumstances such as disasters. The application of entropy-regularized optimal transport (OT) on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Yota Hashizume , Tomohiko Jimbo , Hirotaka Kaji , Kenji Kashima

We propose a novel approach based on optimal transport (OT) for tackling the problem of highly mixed data in blind hyperspectral unmixing. Our method constrains the distribution of the estimated abundance matrix to resemble a targeted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 D. Doutsas , B. Figliuzzi

We consider the fundamental problem of sampling the optimal transport coupling between given source and target distributions. In certain cases, the optimal transport plan takes the form of a one-to-one mapping from the source support to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Tyler Maunu , Paul Hand

In machine learning, Optimal Transport (OT) theory is extensively utilized to compare probability distributions across various applications, such as graph data represented by node distributions and image data represented by pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jianming Huang , Xun Su , Zhongxi Fang , Hiroyuki Kasai

Optimal Transport (OT) has fueled machine learning (ML) across many domains. When paired data measurements $(\boldsymbol{\mu}, \boldsymbol{\nu})$ are coupled to covariates, a challenging conditional distribution learning setting arises.…

Optimal Transport (OT) offers a powerful framework for finding correspondences between distributions and addressing matching and alignment problems in various areas of computer vision, including shape analysis, image generation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xinran Liu , Elaheh Akbari , Rocio Diaz Martin , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Soheil Kolouri

We introduce a formulation of optimal transport problem for distributions on function spaces, where the stochastic map between functional domains can be partially represented in terms of an (infinite-dimensional) Hilbert-Schmidt operator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jiacheng Zhu , Aritra Guha , Dat Do , Mengdi Xu , XuanLong Nguyen , Ding Zhao

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a central tool in data sciences to compare in a geometrically faithful way point clouds and more generally probability distributions. The wide adoption of OT into existing data analysis and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj

Optimal Transport (OT) has proven effective for domain adaptation (DA) by aligning distributions across domains with differing statistical properties. Building on the approach of Courty et al. (2016), who mapped source data to the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 Brian Britos , Mathias Bourel

In this paper, we present an approach to enhance and improve the current normal map rendering technique. Our algorithm is based on semi-discrete Optimal Mass Transportation (OMT) theory and has a solid theoretical base. The key difference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Hui Zhao , Kehua Su , Ming Ma , Na Lei , Li Cui , Xianfeng Gu