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One of the most common ways to represent and share visual designs is with vector graphics. Designers working with vector graphics often explore layout alternatives and generate them by moving and resizing elements. The motivation for this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jeremy Warner , Shuyao Zhou , Bjoern Hartmann

Modern transportation network modeling increasingly involves the integration of diverse methodologies including sensor-based forecasting, reinforcement learning, classical flow optimization, and demand modeling that have traditionally been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Xuesong , Zhou , Taehooie Kim , Mostafa Ameli , Henan , Zhu , Yu- dai Honma , Ram M. Pendyala

Hypergraphs capture multi-way relationships in data, and they have consequently seen a number of applications in higher-order network analysis, computer vision, geometry processing, and machine learning. In this paper, we develop…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Samir Chowdhury , Tom Needham , Ethan Semrad , Bei Wang , Youjia Zhou

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…

In graph analysis, a classic task consists in computing similarity measures between (groups of) nodes. In latent space random graphs, nodes are associated to unknown latent variables. One may then seek to compute distances directly in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-12 Nicolas Keriven

Optimal transport (OT) theory has attracted much attention in machine learning and signal processing applications. OT defines a notion of distance between probability distributions of source and target data points. A crucial factor that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Pratik Jawanpuria , Dai Shi , Bamdev Mishra , Junbin Gao

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

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

Autonomous machines (e.g., vehicles, mobile robots, drones) require sophisticated 3D mapping to perceive the dynamic environment. However, maintaining a real-time 3D map is expensive both in terms of compute and memory requirements,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Tianyu Jia , En-Yu Yang , Yu-Shun Hsiao , Jonathan Cruz , David Brooks , Gu-Yeon Wei , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Occupancy grid maps (OGMs) are fundamental to most systems for autonomous robotic navigation. However, CPU-based implementations struggle to keep up with data rates from modern 3D lidar sensors, and provide little capacity for modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Kazys Stepanas , Jason Williams , Emili Hernández , Fabio Ruetz , Thomas Hines

We present a novel procedure for optimization based on the combination of efficient quantized tensor train representation and a generalized maximum matrix volume principle. We demonstrate the applicability of the new Tensor Train Optimizer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Konstantin Sozykin , Andrei Chertkov , Roman Schutski , Anh-Huy Phan , Andrzej Cichocki , Ivan Oseledets

Modeling traffic distribution and extracting optimal flows in multilayer networks is of utmost importance to design efficient multi-modal network infrastructures. Recent results based on optimal transport theory provide powerful and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-24 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

As a powerful technique in generative modeling, Flow Matching (FM) aims to learn velocity fields from noise to data, which is often explained and implemented as solving Optimal Transport (OT) problems. In this study, we bridge FM and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Angxiao Yue , Anqi Dong , Hongteng Xu

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT) is an important extension of SMT which allows for finding models that optimize given objective functions, typically consisting in linear-arithmetic or pseudo-Boolean terms. However, many SMT and OMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Patrick Trentin , Roberto Sebastiani

Data-driven approaches have been proven effective in solving combinatorial optimization problems over graphs such as the traveling salesman problems and the vehicle routing problem. The rationale behind such methods is that the input…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Mina Samizadeh , Guangmo Tong

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Optimal transportation theory is an area of mathematics with real-world applications in fields ranging from economics to optimal control to machine learning. We propose a new algorithm for solving discrete transport (network flow) problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-03 J. D. Walsh , Luca Dieci

This paper addresses an Optimal Transport (OT)-based efficient multi-robot exploration problem, considering the energy constraints of a multi-robot system. The efficiency in this problem implies how a team of robots (agents) covers a given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Rabiul Hasan Kabir , Kooktae Lee

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach