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Recently, Sinkhorn's algorithm was applied for approximately solving linear programs emerging from optimal transport very efficiently. This was accomplished by formulating a regularized version of the linear program as Bregman projection…
Entropic optimal transport problems are regularized versions of optimal transport problems. These models play an increasingly important role in machine learning and generative modelling. For finite spaces, these problems are commonly solved…
The purpose of this work is to develop a framework to calibrate signed datasets so as to be consistent with specified marginals by suitably extending the Schr\"odinger-Fortet-Sinkhorn paradigm. Specifically, we seek to revise…
The Sinkhorn--Knopp (SK) algorithm is a cornerstone method for matrix scaling and entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT). Despite its empirical efficiency, existing theoretical guarantees to achieve a target marginal accuracy…
We propose a scalable approximate algorithm for the NP-hard maximum-weight independent set problem. The core component of our algorithm is a dual coordinate descent applied to a smoothed LP relaxation of the problem. This technique is…
Optimal transport is a machine learning problem with applications including distribution comparison, feature selection, and generative adversarial networks. In this paper, we propose feature-robust optimal transport (FROT) for…
We propose Mirror Descent Optimal Transport (MDOT), a novel method for solving discrete optimal transport (OT) problems with high precision, by unifying temperature annealing in entropic-regularized OT (EOT) with mirror descent techniques.…
Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment are powerful frameworks for geometrically driven matching of probability distributions, yet their large-scale usage is hampered by high statistical and computational costs.…
Tikhonov regularization is a popular approach to obtain a meaningful solution for ill-conditioned linear least squares problems. A relatively simple way of choosing a good regularization parameter is given by Morozov's discrepancy…
Optimal transport (OT) and maximum mean discrepancies (MMD) are now routinely used in machine learning to compare probability measures. We focus in this paper on \emph{Sinkhorn divergences} (SDs), a regularized variant of OT distances which…
In this note, we generalize the classical optimal partial transport (OPT) problem by modifying the mass destruction/creation term to function-based terms, introducing what we term ``generalized optimal partial transport'' problems. We then…
Primal-dual splitting involving proximity operators in order to be able to find some approximation to the minimizer for a general form of Tikhonov type functional is in the focus of this work. This approximation is produced by a pair of…
Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for reliable decision-making under uncertainty. This paper focuses on DRO with ambiguity sets defined via the Sinkhorn discrepancy: an entropy-regularized…
Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…
Optimal transport is a foundational problem in optimization, that allows to compare probability distributions while taking into account geometric aspects. Its optimal objective value, the Wasserstein distance, provides an important loss…
We investigate the problem of optimal transport in the so-called Kantorovich form, i.e. given two Radon measures on two compact sets, we seek an optimal transport plan which is another Radon measure on the product of the sets that has these…
The Detection Transformer (DETR), by incorporating the Hungarian algorithm, has significantly simplified the matching process in object detection tasks. This algorithm facilitates optimal one-to-one matching of predicted bounding boxes to…
Entropy regularized optimal transport and its multi-marginal generalization have attracted increasing attention in various applications, in particular due to efficient Sinkhorn-like algorithms for computing optimal transport plans. However,…
Regularization techniques are necessary to compute meaningful solutions to discrete ill-posed inverse problems. The well-known 2-norm Tikhonov regularization method equipped with a discretization of the gradient operator as regularization…
We study Benamou's domain decomposition algorithm for optimal transport in the entropy regularized setting. The key observation is that the regularized variant converges to the globally optimal solution under very mild assumptions. We prove…