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Transport-based techniques for signal and data analysis have received increased attention recently. Given their abilities to provide accurate generative models for signal intensities and other data distributions, they have been used in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Soheil Kolouri , Serim Park , Matthew Thorpe , Dejan Slepčev , Gustavo K. Rohde

Unsupervised change detection between airborne LiDAR data points, taken at separate times over the same location, can be difficult due to unmatching spatial support and noise from the acquisition system. Most current approaches to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Marco Fiorucci , Peter Naylor , Makoto Yamada

Optimal transport distances (OT) have been widely used in recent work in Machine Learning as ways to compare probability distributions. These are costly to compute when the data lives in high dimension. Recent work by Paty et al., 2019,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Patric M. Fulop , Vincent Danos

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Sébastien Gadat , Emilia Siviero

Transport-based density estimation methods are receiving growing interest because of their ability to efficiently generate samples from the approximated density. We further invertigate the sequential transport maps framework proposed from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-03 Benjamin Zanger , Olivier Zahm , Tiangang Cui , Martin Schreiber

We propose a new approach to graph compression by appeal to optimal transport. The transport problem is seeded with prior information about node importance, attributes, and edges in the graph. The transport formulation can be setup for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Vikas K. Garg , Tommi Jaakkola

One of the popular measures of central tendency that provides better representation and interesting insights of the data compared to the other measures like mean and median is the metric mode. If the analytical form of the density function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Chandramouli Kamanchi , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Prabuchandran K. J. , Shalabh Bhatnagar

The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization maximization problem. The single-path routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ying Liu , Hongying Liu , Ke Xu , Meng Shen , Yifeng Zhong

Locating a target is key in many applications, namely in high-stakes real-world scenarios, like detecting humans or obstacles in vehicular networks. In scenarios where precise statistics of the measurement noise are unavailable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-17 João Domingos , Cláudia Soares , João Xavier

Projection Pursuit methodology permits to solve the difficult problem of finding an estimate of a density defined on a set of very large dimension. In his seminal article, Huber (see "Projection pursuit", Annals of Statistics, 1985)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-18 Jacques Touboul

In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-25 A. Patrascu , I. Necoara

Traditional algorithms for stochastic optimization require projecting the solution at each iteration into a given domain to ensure its feasibility. When facing complex domains, such as positive semi-definite cones, the projection operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Xiaofei He

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

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 introduce Deep Set Linearized Optimal Transport, an algorithm designed for the efficient simultaneous embedding of point clouds into an $L^2-$space. This embedding preserves specific low-dimensional structures within the Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Scott Mahan , Caroline Moosmüller , Alexander Cloninger

A powerful data transformation method named guided projections is proposed creating new possibilities to reveal the group structure of high-dimensional data in the presence of noise variables. Utilising projections onto a space spanned by a…

Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-13 François-Pierre Paty , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Marco Cuturi

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

Density map is an effective visualization technique for depicting the scalar field distribution in 2D space. Conventional methods for constructing density maps are mainly based on Euclidean distance, limiting their applicability in urban…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Zezheng Feng , Haotian Li , Wei Zeng , Shuang-Hua Yang , Huamin Qu