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Optimal Transport (OT) theory investigates the cost-minimizing transport map that moves a source distribution to a target distribution. Recently, several approaches have emerged for learning the optimal transport map for a given cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jaemoo Choi , Yongxin Chen , Jaewoong Choi

The minimum distance of a code is an important concept in information theory. Hence, computing the minimum distance of a code with a minimum computational cost is a crucial process to many problems in this area. In this paper, we present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Francisco D. Igual , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí

We demonstrate an iterative scheme to approximate the optimal transportation problem with a discrete target measure under certain standard conditions on the cost function. Additionally, we give a finite upper bound on the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Jun Kitagawa

In this paper, we propose a novel methodology for path planning and scheduling for multi-robot navigation that is based on optimal transport theory and model predictive control. We consider a setup where $N$ robots are tasked to navigate to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Usman A. Khan , Mouhacine Benosman , Wenliang Liu , Federico Pecora , Joseph W. Durham

We study the problem of estimating the size of maximum matching and minimum vertex cover in sublinear time. Denoting the number of vertices by $n$ and the average degree in the graph by $\bar{d}$, we obtain the following results for both…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Soheil Behnezhad

We study the problem of tracking multiple moving targets using a team of mobile robots. Each robot has a set of motion primitives to choose from in order to collectively maximize the number of targets tracked or the total quality of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Yoonchang Sung , Ashish Kumar Budhiraja , Ryan K. Williams , Pratap Tokekar

A novel algorithm is proposed to solve the sample-based optimal transport problem. An adversarial formulation of the push-forward condition uses a test function built as a convolution between an adaptive kernel and an evolving probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Daeyoung Kim , Esteban G. Tabak

We present the first near optimal approximation schemes for the maximum weighted (uncapacitated or capacitated) $b$--matching problems for non-bipartite graphs that run in time (near) linear in the number of edges. For any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

In this short paper, we present an improved algorithm for approximating the minimum cut on distributed (CONGEST) networks. Let $\lambda$ be the minimum cut. Our algorithm can compute $\lambda$ exactly in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Danupon Nanongkai

The determination of time-dependent collision-free shortest paths has received a fair amount of attention. Here, we study the problem of computing a time-dependent shortest path among growing discs which has been previously studied for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Anil Maheshwari , Arash Nouri , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Finding solutions to the classical transportation problem is of great importance, since this optimization problem arises in many engineering and computer science applications. Especially the Earth Mover's Distance is used in a plethora of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Carsten Gottschlich , Dominic Schuhmacher

Optimal transport induces the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein) distance between probability distributions, a geometric divergence that is relevant to a wide range of problems. Over the last decade, two relaxations of optimal transport have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Jean Feydy , François-Xavier Vialard , Alain Trouvé , Gabriel Peyré

Motivated, in particular, by the entropy-regularized optimal transport problem, we consider convex optimization problems with linear equality constraints, where the dual objective has Lipschitz $p$-th order derivatives, and develop two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Pavel Dvurechensky , Petr Ostroukhov , Alexander Gasnikov , César A. Uribe , Anastasiya Ivanova

We consider an extension of the Monge-Kantorovitch optimal transportation problem. The mass is transported along a continuous semimartingale, and the cost of transportation depends on the drift and the diffusion coefficients of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

We study an optimal transportation approach for recovering parameters in dynamical systems with a single smoothly varying attractor. We assume that the data is not sufficient for estimating time derivatives of state variables but enough to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Yunan Yang , Levon Nurbekyan , Elisa Negrini , Robert Martin , Mirjeta Pasha

This contribution presents substantial computational advancements to compare measures even with varying masses. Specifically, we utilize the nonequispaced fast Fourier transform to accelerate the radial kernel convolution in unbalanced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler

Let $A$ and $B$ be two point sets in the plane of sizes $r$ and $n$ respectively (assume $r \leq n$), and let $k$ be a parameter. A matching between $A$ and $B$ is a family of pairs in $A \times B$ so that any point of $A \cup B$ appears in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Hsien-Chih Chang , Allen Xiao

We consider the one-to-one Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) in Euclidean Space with arbitrary dimension $d$ where $n$ transportation requests are picked i.i.d. with a separate origin-destination pair for each object to be moved. First, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Martin Olsen

Optimal Transport (OT) theory has seen an increasing amount of attention from the computer science community due to its potency and relevance in modeling and machine learning. It introduces means that serve as powerful ways to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Luis Caicedo Torres , Luiz Manella Pereira , M. Hadi Amini

We present a pseudopolynomial-time algorithm for the Knapsack problem that has running time $\widetilde{O}(n + t\sqrt{p_{\max}})$, where $n$ is the number of items, $t$ is the knapsack capacity, and $p_{\max}$ is the maximum item profit.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Karl Bringmann , Anita Dürr , Adam Polak