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The relevance of optimal transport methods to machine learning has long been hindered by two salient limitations. First, the $O(n^3)$ computational cost of standard sample-based solvers (when used on batches of $n$ samples) is prohibitive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Meyer Scetbon , Michal Klein , Giovanni Palla , Marco Cuturi

The quest for efficient sorting is ongoing, and we will explore a graph-based stable sorting strategy, in particular employing comparison graphs. We use the topological sort to map the comparison graph to a linear domain, and we can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Balaram Behera

The use of machine learning algorithms to address classification problems is on the rise in many research areas. The current study is aimed at testing the potential of using such algorithms to auto-select the best solvers for transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jinzhao Chen , Japan K. Patel , Richard Vasques

A fundamental task underlying many important optimization problems, from influence maximization to sensor placement to content recommendation, is to select the optimal group of $k$ items from a larger set. Submodularity has been very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jon Kleinberg , Emily Ryu , Éva Tardos

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool for measuring the distance between two defined probability distributions. In this paper, we develop a new manifold named the coupling matrix manifold (CMM), where each point on CMM can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Dai Shi , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , S. T. Boris Choy , Zhiyong Wang

Detecting anomalies in datasets is a longstanding problem in machine learning. In this context, anomalies are defined as a sample that significantly deviates from the remaining data. Meanwhile, optimal transport (OT) is a field of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Adel El Habazi , Fred Ngole Mboula

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

We present the first in-place algorithm for sorting an array of size n that performs, in the worst case, at most O(n log n) element comparisons and O(n) element transports. This solves a long-standing open problem, stated explicitly, e.g.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianni Franceschini , Viliam Geffert

The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) generalizes many real-world multi-robot scheduling and routing tasks that occur in autonomous mobility, aerial logistics, and surveillance applications. While many flavors of the TOP exist for planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Malintha Fernando , Petter Ögren , Silun Zhang

The nonlinear filtering problem is concerned with finding the conditional probability distribution (posterior) of the state of a stochastic dynamical system, given a history of partial and noisy observations. This paper presents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Mohammad Al-Jarrah , Bamdad Hosseini , Amirhossein Taghvaei

Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. In this regard, OT between tractable prior distribution and data has been utilized for generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

This article introduces an adaptive sorting algorithm that can relocate elements accurately by substituting their values into a function which we name it the guessing function. We focus on building this function which is the mapping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sheng Bao , De-Shun Zheng

Obtaining solutions to Optimal Transportation (OT) problems is typically intractable when the marginal spaces are continuous. Recent research has focused on approximating continuous solutions with discretization methods based on i.i.d.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Junqi Wang , Pei Wang , Patrick Shafto

We engineer algorithms for sorting huge data sets on massively parallel machines. The algorithms are based on the multiway merging paradigm. We first outline an algorithm whose I/O requirement is close to a lower bound. Thus, in contrast to…

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Sorting is a foundational problem in computer science that is typically employed on sequences or total orders. More recently, a more general form of sorting on partially ordered sets (or posets), where some pairs of elements are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jishnu Roychoudhury , Jatin Yadav

We propose an implicit neural formulation of optimal transport that eliminates adversarial min--max optimization and multi-network architectures commonly used in existing approaches. Our key idea is to parameterize a single potential in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yesom Park , Eric Gelphman , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

An optimal transport (OT) problem seeks to find the cheapest mapping between two distributions with equal total density, given the cost of transporting density from one place to another. Unbalanced OT allows for different total density in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Jacob J. M. Francis , Colin J. Cotter , Marion P. Mittermaier

Support vector machine (SVM) has been one of the most popular learning algorithms, with the central idea of maximizing the minimum margin, i.e., the smallest distance from the instances to the classification boundary. Recent theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Teng Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) are a fundamental representation in robot motion planning. Their configuration-space counterpart, the Configuration Space Distance Field (CDF), directly encodes distances in joint space, offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mengzhu Li , Yunyu Zhou , He Ying , F. Richard Yu