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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

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

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 study the optimal transport problem for pairs of stationary finite-state Markov chains, with an emphasis on the computation of optimal transition couplings. Transition couplings are a constrained family of transport plans that capture…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Kevin O'Connor , Kevin McGoff , Andrew B. Nobel

We review matrix methods as applied to tracer transport. Because tracer transport is linear, matrix methods are an ideal fit for the problem. A gridded, Eulerian tracer simulation can be approximated as a system of linear ordinary…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Peter Mills

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

In optimal transport (OT), a Monge map is known as a mapping that transports a source distribution to a target distribution in the most cost-efficient way. Recently, multiple neural estimators for Monge maps have been developed and applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Luca Eyring , Dominik Klein , Théo Uscidda , Giovanni Palla , Niki Kilbertus , Zeynep Akata , Fabian Theis

Current graph neural network (GNN) architectures naively average or sum node embeddings into an aggregated graph representation -- potentially losing structural or semantic information. We here introduce OT-GNN, a model that computes graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Benson Chen , Gary Bécigneul , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

The theory of Monge-Kantorovich Optimal Mass Transport (OMT) has in recent years spurred a fast developing phase of research in stochastic control, control of ensemble systems, thermodynamics, data science, and several other fields in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We formulate and solve a class of finite-time transport and mixing problems in the set-oriented framework. The aim is to obtain optimal discrete-time perturbations in nonlinear dynamical systems to transport a specified initial measure on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Piyush Grover , Karthik Elamvazhuthi

Several algorithms have been used for mass transfer between particles undergoing advective and macro-dispersive random walks. The mass transfer between particles is required for general reactions on, and among, particles. The mass transfer…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Michael J. Schmidt , Stephen D. Pankavich , David A. Benson

Optimal Transport (OT) problem aims to find a transport plan that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. OT theory has been widely utilized in generative modeling. In the beginning, OT distance has been used as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Optimal transport has recently started to be successfully employed to define misfit or loss functions in inverse problems. However, it is a problem intrinsically defined for positive (probability) measures and therefore strategies are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Gabriele Todeschi , Ludovic Métivier , Jean-Marie Mirebeau

We present a neural framework for learning conditional optimal transport (OT) maps between probability distributions. Our approach introduces a conditioning mechanism capable of processing both categorical and continuous conditioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Leonardo Chiani , Emanuele Borgonovo , Massimo Tavoni

In this paper, we derive a novel optimal image transport algorithm over sparse dictionaries by taking advantage of Sparse Representation (SR) and Optimal Transport (OT). Concisely, we design a unified optimization framework in which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Junqing Huang , Haihui Wang , Andreas Weiermann , Michael Ruzhansky

We present a new multiscale algorithm for solving regularized Optimal Transport problems on the GPU, with a linear memory footprint. Relying on Sinkhorn divergences which are convex, smooth and positive definite loss functions, this method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jean Feydy , Pierre Roussillon , Alain Trouvé , Pietro Gori

We investigate optimal mass transport problem of affine-nonlinear dynamical systems with input and density constraints. Three algorithms are proposed to tackle this problem, including two Uzawa-type methods and a splitting algorithm based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 John Lee , Max Dabagia , Eva L. Dyer , Christopher J. Rozell

Recent studies have proposed different methods to improve multilingual word representations in contextualized settings including techniques that align between source and target embedding spaces. For contextualized embeddings, alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sawsan Alqahtani , Garima Lalwani , Yi Zhang , Salvatore Romeo , Saab Mansour

The graph matching problem seeks to find an alignment between the nodes of two graphs that minimizes the number of adjacency disagreements. Solving the graph matching is increasingly important due to it's applications in operations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-11 Ali Saad-Eldin , Benjamin D. Pedigo , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein