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This paper addresses the practical challenge in Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) where the underlying ground cost function is typically latent and unobserved. Rather than assuming a fixed geometric cost, we adopt a data-driven approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Antoine Debouchage , Xiaozhen Wang , Zhenjie Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

We propose two deep neural network-based methods for solving semi-martingale optimal transport problems. The first method is based on a relaxation/penalization of the terminal constraint, and is solved using deep neural networks. The second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

The paper represents an algorithm for planning safe and optimal routes for transport facilities with unrestricted movement direction that travel within areas with obstacles. Paper explains the algorithm using a ship as an example of such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ivan Yanchin , Oleg Petrov

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

Transfer-based attack adopts the adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to attack various models, making it applicable in the physical world and attracting increasing interest. Recently, various adversarial attacks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhijin Ge , Hongying Liu , Xiaosen Wang , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu

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

We consider the setting of agents cooperatively minimizing the sum of local objectives plus a regularizer on a graph. This paper proposes a primal-dual method in consideration of three distinctive attributes of real-life multi-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Ziyi Yu , Nikolaos M. Freris

We describe a novel approach for computing collision-free \emph{global} trajectories for $p$ agents with specified initial and final configurations, based on an improved version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Jose Bento , Nate Derbinsky , Javier Alonso-Mora , Jonathan Yedidia

Distributional data have become increasingly prominent in modern signal processing, highlighting the necessity of computing optimal transport (OT) maps across multiple probability distributions. Nevertheless, recent studies on neural OT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mingchen Jiang , Peng Xu , Xichen Ye , Xiaohui Chen , Yun Yang , Yifan Chen

Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

Real-world network systems are inherently dynamic, with network topologies undergoing continuous changes over time. Previous works often focus on static networks or rely on complete prior knowledge of evolving topologies, whereas real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Chunyu Pan , Xizhe Zhang , Haoyu Zheng , Zhao Su , Changsheng Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

Current machine learning models achieve super-human performance in many real-world applications. Still, they are susceptible against imperceptible adversarial perturbations. The most effective solution for this problem is adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Arman Zarei , Alireza Isavand , Mohammad Taghi Manzuri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

Domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge of labeled instances obtained from a source domain to a target domain to fill the gap between the domains. Most domain adaptation methods assume that the source and target domains have the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Toshimitsu Aritake , Hideitsu Hino

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…

Semidiscrete optimal transport is a challenging generalization of the classical transportation problem in linear programming. The goal is to design a joint distribution for two random variables (one continuous, one discrete) with fixed…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-22 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of deep convolutional neural networks against adversarial examples. Inspired by the observation that the intrinsic dimension of image data is much smaller than its pixel space dimension and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Yao Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Wenchao Yu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Thomas C. M. Lee , Erik Kruus

Distribution matching can be used to learn invariant representations with applications in fairness and robustness. Most prior works resort to adversarial matching methods but the resulting minimax problems are unstable and challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ziyu Gong , Ben Usman , Han Zhao , David I. Inouye