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We study the multi-marginal partial optimal transport (POT) problem between $m$ discrete (unbalanced) measures with at most $n$ supports. We first prove that we can obtain two equivalence forms of the multimarginal POT problem in terms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-25 Khang Le , Huy Nguyen , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho

Partial Optimal Transport (POT) addresses the problem of transporting only a fraction of the total mass between two distributions, making it suitable when marginals have unequal size or contain outliers. While Sinkhorn-based methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nghia Thu Truong , Qui Phu Pham , Quang Nguyen , Dung Luong , Mai Tran

This paper studies the Partial Optimal Transport (POT) problem between two unbalanced measures with at most $n$ supports and its applications in various AI tasks such as color transfer or domain adaptation. There is hence the need for fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Anh Duc Nguyen , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Quang Minh Nguyen , Hoang H. Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen , Kim-Chuan Toh

We introduce a novel generative modeling framework based on a discretized parabolic Monge-Amp\`{e}re PDE, which emerges as a continuous limit of the Sinkhorn algorithm commonly used in optimal transport. Our method performs iterative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Nabarun Deb , Tengyuan Liang

The optimal mass transport problem gives a geometric framework for optimal allocation, and has recently gained significant interest in application areas such as signal processing, image processing, and computer vision. Even though it can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Johan Karlsson , Axel Ringh

Entropy regularized optimal transport and its multi-marginal generalization have attracted increasing attention in various applications, in particular due to efficient Sinkhorn-like algorithms for computing optimal transport plans. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Florian Beier , Johannes von Lindheim , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

The Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation arises in the theory of optimal transport. When more complicated cost functions are involved in the optimal transportation problem, which are motivated e.g. from economics, the corresponding equation for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Heiko Kröner

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used tool in machine learning, but computing high-accuracy solutions for large instances remains costly. Entropic regularization and the Sinkhorn algorithm improve scalability; however, when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Di Wu , Ling Liang , Haizhao Yang

Computing optimal transport distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. Despite the recent introduction of several algorithms with good empirical performance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Jason Altschuler , Jonathan Weed , Philippe Rigollet

Given a $d$-dimensional continuous (resp. discrete) probability distribution $\mu$ and a discrete distribution $\nu$, the semi-discrete (resp. discrete) Optimal Transport (OT) problem asks for computing a minimum-cost plan to transport mass…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Sharath Raghvendra , Pouyan Shirzadian , Keegan Yao

We propose an entropic approximation approach for optimal transportation problems with a supremal cost. We establish $\Gamma$-convergence for suitably chosen parameters for the entropic penalization and that this procedure selects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Guillaume Carlier , Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale

We give a new and constructive proof of the existence of global-in-time weak solutions of the 3-dimensional incompressible semi-geostrophic equations (SG) in geostrophic coordinates, for arbitrary initial measures with compact support. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 David P. Bourne , Charlie P. Egan , Beatrice Pelloni , Mark Wilkinson

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

Entropic regularization provides a generalization of the original optimal transport problem. It introduces a penalty term defined by the Kullback-Leibler divergence, making the problem more tractable via the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

Entropy-regularized optimal transport, which has strong links to the Schr\"odinger bridge problem in statistical mechanics, enjoys a variety of applications from trajectory inference to generative modeling. A major driver of renewed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-27 Anand Srinivasan , Jean-Jacques Slotine

In this paper, we develop several related finite dimensional variational principles for discrete optimal transport (DOT), Minkowski type problems for convex polytopes and discrete Monge-Ampere equation (DMAE). A link between the discrete…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , S. -T. Yau

We show that, on a $2$-dimensional compact manifold, the optimal transport map in the semi-discrete random matching problem is well-approximated in the $L^2$-norm by identity plus the gradient of the solution to the Poisson problem $-\Delta…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Luigi Ambrosio , Federico Glaudo , Dario Trevisan

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

Optimal transport (OT) has recently found widespread interest in machine learning. It allows to define novel distances between probability measures, which have shown promise in several applications. In this work, we discuss how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Bamdev Mishra , N T V Satyadev , Hiroyuki Kasai , Pratik Jawanpuria

We consider the entropic regularization of discretized optimal transport and propose to solve its optimality conditions via a logarithmic Newton iteration. We show a quadratic convergence rate and validate numerically that the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Christoph Brauer , Christian Clason , Dirk Lorenz , Benedikt Wirth