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We study the estimation of optimal transport (OT) maps between an arbitrary source probability measure and a log-concave target probability measure. Our contributions are twofold. First, we propose a new evolution equation in the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Théo Dumont , Théo Lacombe , François-Xavier Vialard

Optimal transport is a framework for comparing measures whereby a cost is incurred for transporting one measure to another. Recent works have aimed to improve optimal transport plans through the introduction of various forms of structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Fabian Lim , Laura Wynter , Shiau Hong Lim

This paper deals with the 3/4-discrete 2-Wasserstein optimal transport between two measures, where one is supported by a set of segment and the other one is supported by a set of Dirac masses. We select the most suitable optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat

The massive scale of future wireless networks will create computational bottlenecks in performance optimization. In this paper, we study the problem of connecting mobile traffic to Cloud RAN (C-RAN) stations. To balance station load, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Georgios Paschos , Nikolaos Liakopoulos , Merouane Debbah , Tong Wen

We study the problem of identifying an optimal coupling between input-output distributional data generated by a causal dynamical system. The coupling is required to satisfy prescribed marginal distributions and a causality constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Daran Xu , Amirhossein Taghvaei

Optimal transport has found widespread applications in signal processing and machine learning. Among its many equivalent formulations, optimal transport seeks to reconstruct a random variable/vector with a prescribed distribution at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jun Chen , Jia Wang , Ruibin Li , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Huan Liu , Yuanhao Yu

Data-driven simulation of pedestrian dynamics is an incipient and promising approach for building reliable microscopic pedestrian models. We propose a methodology based on generalized regression neural networks, which does not have to deal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-19 Rafael F. Martin , Daniel R. Parisi

This article introduces a generalization of the discrete optimal transport, with applications to color image manipulations. This new formulation includes a relaxation of the mass conservation constraint and a regularization term. These two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Sira Ferradans , Nicolas Papadakis , Gabriel Peyré , Jean-François Aujol

We introduce a general framework for testing statistical hypotheses for probability measures supported on finite spaces, which is based on optimal transport (OT). These tests are inspired by the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Michel Groppe , Linus Niemöller , Shayan Hundrieser , David Ventzke , Anna Blob , Sarah Köster , Axel Munk

We propose a statistically optimal approach to construct data-driven decisions for stochastic optimization problems. Fundamentally, a data-driven decision is simply a function that maps the available training data to a feasible action. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Tobias Sutter , Bart P. G. Van Parys , Daniel Kuhn

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

We consider the problem of trajectory planning in an environment comprised of a set of obstacles with uncertain locations. While previous approaches model the uncertainties with a prescribed Gaussian distribution, we consider the realistic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Vasileios Lefkopoulos , Maryam Kamgarpour

We present a novel method for efficiently computing optimal transport maps and Wasserstein barycenters in high-dimensional spaces. Our approach uses conditional normalizing flows to approximate the input distributions as invertible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Gabriele Visentin , Patrick Cheridito

A novel methodology is developed for the solution of the data-driven Monge optimal transport barycenter problem, where the pushforward condition is formulated in terms of the statistical independence between two sets of random variables:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Andrew D. Lipnick , Esteban G. Tabak , Giulio Trigila , Yating Wang , Xuancheng Ye , Wenjun Zhao

We consider the problem of optimizing the interconnection graphs of complex networks to promote synchronization. When traditional optimization methods are inapplicable, due to uncertain or unknown node dynamics, we propose a data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

We consider the optimal mass transportation problem in $\RR^d$ with measurably parameterized marginals, for general cost functions and under conditions ensuring the existence of a unique optimal transport map. We prove a joint measurability…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Joaquin Fontbona , Helene Guerin , Sylvie Meleard

Ensuring Conditional Independence (CI) constraints is pivotal for the development of fair and trustworthy machine learning models. In this paper, we introduce \sys, a framework that harnesses optimal transport theory for data repair under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Alireza Pirhadi , Mohammad Hossein Moslemi , Alexander Cloninger , Mostafa Milani , Babak Salimi

To determine causal relationships between two variables, approaches based on Functional Causal Models (FCMs) have been proposed by properly restricting model classes; however, the performance is sensitive to the model assumptions, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ruibo Tu , Kun Zhang , Hedvig Kjellström , Cheng Zhang

Non-additive measures, also known as fuzzy measures, capacities, and monotonic games, are increasingly used in different fields. Applications have been built within computer science and artificial intelligence related to e.g. decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Vicenç Torra

We consider optimal transport based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with locally strongly convex transport cost functions and affine decision rules. Under conventional convexity assumptions on the underlying loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Jose Blanchet , Karthyek Murthy , Fan Zhang