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A primal-dual accelerated stochastic gradient descent with variance reduction algorithm (PDASGD) is proposed to solve linear-constrained optimization problems. PDASGD could be applied to solve the discrete optimal transport (OT) problem and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Yiling Xie , Yiling Luo , Xiaoming Huo

Optimal transport (OT) and unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) are central in many machine learning, statistics and engineering applications. 1D OT is easily solved, with complexity O(n log n), but no efficient algorithm was known for 1D…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Gabriel Gouvine

We present a novel reduced-order Model (ROM) that leverages optimal transport (OT) theory and displacement interpolation to enhance the representation of nonlinear dynamics in complex systems. While traditional ROM techniques face…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Moaad Khamlich , Federico Pichi , Michele Girfoglio , Annalisa Quaini , Gianluigi Rozza

In many applications of optimal transport (OT), the object of primary interest is the optimal transport map. This map rearranges mass from one probability distribution to another in the most efficient way possible by minimizing a specified…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Tudor Manole , Larry Wasserman

Several recent applications of optimal transport (OT) theory to machine learning have relied on regularization, notably entropy and the Sinkhorn algorithm. Because matrix-vector products are pervasive in the Sinkhorn algorithm, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Meyer Scetbon , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

Optimal transport (OT) is a popular tool in machine learning to compare probability measures geometrically, but it comes with substantial computational burden. Linear programming algorithms for computing OT distances scale cubically in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gaspard Beugnot , Aude Genevay , Kristjan Greenewald , Justin Solomon

Reliable traversable area segmentation in unstructured environments is critical for planning and decision-making in autonomous driving. However, existing data-driven approaches often suffer from degraded segmentation performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhihua Zhao , Guoqiang Li , Chen Min , Kangping Lu

Network alignment, which aims to find node correspondence across different networks, is the cornerstone of various downstream multi-network and Web mining tasks. Most of the embedding-based methods indirectly model cross-network node…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Qi Yu , Zhichen Zeng , Yuchen Yan , Lei Ying , R. Srikant , Hanghang Tong

We develop a fast and reliable method for solving large-scale optimal transport (OT) problems at an unprecedented combination of speed and accuracy. Built on the celebrated Douglas-Rachford splitting technique, our method tackles the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Vien V. Mai , Jacob Lindbäck , Mikael Johansson

This paper studies the Partial Optimal Transport (POT) problem between two unbalanced measures with at most $n$ supports and its applications in various AI tasks such as color transfer or domain adaptation. There is hence the need for fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Anh Duc Nguyen , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Quang Minh Nguyen , Hoang H. Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen , Kim-Chuan Toh

Optimal transport (OT) plays an essential role in various areas like machine learning and deep learning. However, computing discrete optimal transport plan for large scale problems with adequate accuracy and efficiency is still highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Dongsheng An , Na Lei , Xianfeng Gu

Given a collection of probability measures, a practitioner sometimes needs to find an "average" distribution which adequately aggregates reference distributions. A theoretically appealing notion of such an average is the Wasserstein…

Computing optimal transport (OT) between measures in high dimensions is doomed by the curse of dimensionality. A popular approach to avoid this curse is to project input measures on lower-dimensional subspaces (1D lines in the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

Protein sequence alignment is a cornerstone of bioinformatics, traditionally approached using dynamic programming (DP) algorithms that find an optimal sequential path. This paper introduces UniOTalign, a novel framework that recasts…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-09 Yue Hu , Zanxia Cao , Yingchao Liu

In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method to address the high-dimensional dynamic unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. Dynamic UOT focuses on the optimal transportation between two densities with unequal total mass,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Wei Wan , Jiangong Pan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

In the realm of computer vision and graphics, accurately establishing correspondences between geometric 3D shapes is pivotal for applications like object tracking, registration, texture transfer, and statistical shape analysis. Moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Tung Le , Khai Nguyen , Shanlin Sun , Nhat Ho , Xiaohui Xie

We provide theoretical analyses for two algorithms that solve the regularized optimal transport (OT) problem between two discrete probability measures with at most $n$ atoms. We show that a greedy variant of the classical Sinkhorn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyi Lin , Nhat Ho , Michael I. Jordan

Discriminating between distributions is an important problem in a number of scientific fields. This motivated the introduction of Linear Optimal Transportation (LOT), which embeds the space of distributions into an $L^2$-space. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-27 Caroline Moosmüller , Alexander Cloninger

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm for consensus optimization over networks and a robust extension tailored to deal with asynchronous agents and packet losses. Indeed, to robustly achieve dynamic consensus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Bastianello , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Ruggero Carli

The optimal transport (OT) problem has gained significant traction in modern machine learning for its ability to: (1) provide versatile metrics, such as Wasserstein distances and their variants, and (2) determine optimal couplings between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinran Liu , Rocío Díaz Martín , Yikun Bai , Ashkan Shahbazi , Matthew Thorpe , Akram Aldroubi , Soheil Kolouri