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We consider optimal transport based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with locally strongly convex transport cost functions and affine decision rules. Under conventional convexity assumptions on the underlying loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Jose Blanchet , Karthyek Murthy , Fan Zhang

We present a flexible method for computing Bayesian optimal experimental designs (BOEDs) for inverse problems with intractable posteriors. The approach is applicable to a wide range of BOED problems and can accommodate various optimality…

Computation · Statistics 2024-08-20 Karina Koval , Roland Herzog , Robert Scheichl

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

We consider global problems, i.e. problems that take at least diameter time, even when the bandwidth is not restricted. We show that all problems considered admit efficient solutions in low-treewidth graphs. By ``efficient'' we mean that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Taisuke Izumi , Naoki Kitamura , Takamasa Naruse , Gregory Schwartzman

We consider inference (filtering) problems over probabilistic graphical models with aggregate data generated by a large population of individuals. We propose a new efficient belief propagation type algorithm over tree-structured graphs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Rahul Singh , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

Gas transport and other complex real-world challenges often require solving and controlling partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on graph structures, which typically demand substantial memory and computational resources. The Random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Martín Hernández , Enrique Zuazua

Path optimization is a fundamental concern across various real-world scenarios, ranging from traffic congestion issues to efficient data routing over the internet. The Traffic Assignment Problem (TAP) is a classic continuous optimization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-21 Rayan Harfouche , Giovanni Piccioli , Lenka Zdeborová

In this paper, we study dynamical optimal transport on a connected graph from the perspective of the Benamou-Brenier formulation, where densities are assigned to vertices and velocities to edges. However, directly using Newton's method on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Qujiangxue Chen , Jianbo Cui , Luca Dieci , Haomin Zhou

Optimal transport (OT) is attracting increasing attention in machine learning. It aims to transport a source distribution to a target one at minimal cost. In its vanilla form, the source and target distributions are predetermined, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Liangliang Shi , Zhaoqi Shen , Junchi Yan

A drawback of the classic approach for complexity analysis of distributed graph problems is that it mostly informs about the complexity of notorious classes of ``worst case'' graphs. Algorithms that are used to prove a tight (existential)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Philipp Schneider

We present a new deterministic algorithm for distributed weighted all pairs shortest paths (APSP) in both undirected and directed graphs. Our algorithm runs in $\tilde{O}(n^{4/3})$ rounds in the Congest models on graphs with arbitrary edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

This paper concerns the application of techniques from optimal transport (OT) to mean field control, in which the probability measures of interest in OT correspond to empirical distributions associated with a large collection of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Thomas Le Corre , Ana Busic , Sean Meyn

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

Recent transportation network studies on uncertainty and reliability call for modeling the probabilistic O-D demand and probabilistic network flow. Making the best use of day-to-day traffic data collected over many years, this paper…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-20 Wei Ma , Zhen Qian

The bi-objective shortest-path (BOSP) problem seeks to find paths between start and target vertices of a graph while optimizing two conflicting objective functions. We consider the BOSP problem in the presence of correlated objectives. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yaron Halle , Ariel Felner , Sven Koenig , Oren Salzman

This paper proposes earliest and latest path algorithms based on binary weight allocation, assigning weights of 2(i-1) and 2(m-i) to the i-th arc in a network. While traditional shortest path algorithms optimize only distance, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Wei-Chang Yeh

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

We introduce an independence criterion based on entropy regularized optimal transport. Our criterion can be used to test for independence between two samples. We establish non-asymptotic bounds for our test statistic and study its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-21 Lang Liu , Soumik Pal , Zaid Harchaoui

Optimal transport maps define a one-to-one correspondence between probability distributions, and as such have grown popular for machine learning applications. However, these maps are generally defined on empirical observations and cannot be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Lucas de Lara , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

We consider problems in which a mobile robot samples an unknown function defined over its operating space, so as to find a global optimum of this function. The path traveled by the robot matters, since it influences energy and time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Tudor Santejudean , Lucian Busoniu