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Identifying optimal collective variables to model transformations, using atomic-scale simulations, is a long-standing challenge. We propose a new method for the generation, optimization, and comparison of collective variables, which can be…

A framework is proposed that addresses both conditional density estimation and latent variable discovery. The objective function maximizes explanation of variability in the data, achieved through the optimal transport barycenter generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Hongkang Yang , Esteban G. Tabak

To remedy the drawbacks of full-mass or fixed-mass constraints in classical optimal transport, we propose adaptive optimal transport which is distinctive from the classical optimal transport in its ability of adaptive-mass preserving. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Pei Yang , Qi Tan , Guihua Wen

Recently, Optimal Transport has been proposed as a probabilistic framework in Machine Learning for comparing and manipulating probability distributions. This is rooted in its rich history and theory, and has offered new solutions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Fred Ngolè Mboula , Antoine Souloumiac

We establish an explicit data-driven criterion for identifying the solid-liquid transition of two-dimensional self-propelled colloidal particles in the far from equilibrium parameter regime, where the transition points predicted by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Wei-chen Guo , Bao-quan Ai , Liang He

This paper presents a novel two-step approach for the fundamental problem of learning an optimal map from one distribution to another. First, we learn an optimal transport (OT) plan, which can be thought as a one-to-many map between the two…

Among $\R^3$-valued triples of random vectors $(X,Y,Z)$ having fixed marginal probability laws, what is the best way to jointly draw $(X,Y,Z)$ in such a way that the simplex generated by $(X,Y,Z)$ has maximal average volume? Motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-12 Guillaume Carlier , Bruno Nazaret

Urban traffic congestion is a key challenge for the development of modern cities, requiring advanced control techniques to optimize existing infrastructures usage. Despite the extensive availability of data, modeling such complex systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Alessio Rimoldi , Carlo Cenedese , Alberto Padoan , Florian Dörfler , John Lygeros

This letter investigates dynamical optimal transport of underactuated linear systems over an infinite time horizon. In our previous work, we proposed to integrate model predictive control and the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm to perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

We propose a simple subsampling scheme for fast randomized approximate computation of optimal transport distances. This scheme operates on a random subset of the full data and can use any exact algorithm as a black-box back-end, including…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-17 Max Sommerfeld , Jörn Schrieber , Yoav Zemel , Axel Munk

Inspired by the Boltzmann kinetics, we propose a collision-based dynamics with a Monte Carlo solution algorithm that approximates the solution of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem via randomized pairwise swapping of sample…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mohsen Sadr , Hossein Gorji

In many unpaired image domain translation problems, e.g., style transfer or super-resolution, it is important to keep the translated image similar to its respective input image. We propose the extremal transport (ET) which is a mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Milena Gazdieva , Alexander Korotin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev

In this paper, we study the optimal transport problem induced by separable cost functions. In this framework, transportation can be expressed as the composition of two lower-dimensional movements. Through this reformulation, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Gennaro Auricchio

In Bayesian applications, there is a huge interest in rapid and accurate estimation of the posterior distribution, particularly for high dimensional or hierarchical models. In this article, we propose to use optimization to solve for a…

Computation · Statistics 2021-03-12 Leo L. Duan

In recent years, two prominent paradigms have shaped distributionally robust optimization (DRO), modeling distributional ambiguity through $\phi$-divergences and Wasserstein distances, respectively. While the former focuses on ambiguity in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Jose Blanchet , Daniel Kuhn , Jiajin Li , Bahar Taskesen

We introduce a prioritized system-optimal algorithm for mandatory lane change (MLC) behavior of connected and automated vehicles (CAV) from a dedicated lane. Our approach applies a cooperative lane change that prioritizes the decisions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Nachuan Li , Austen Z. Fan , Riley Fischer , Wissam Kontar , Bin Ran

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Zixuan Cang , Yanxiang Zhao

Monge map refers to the optimal transport map between two probability distributions and provides a principled approach to transform one distribution to another. Neural network based optimal transport map solver has gained great attention in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiaojiao Fan , Shu Liu , Shaojun Ma , Haomin Zhou , Yongxin Chen

The abundance of data has led to the emergence of a variety of optimization techniques that attempt to leverage available side information to provide more anticipative decisions. The wide range of methods and contexts of application have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Mehran Poursoltani , Erick Delage , Angelos Georghiou

Data-Driven Predictive Control (DPC) optimizes system behavior directly from measured trajectories without requiring an explicit model. However, its computational cost scales with dataset size, limiting real-time applicability to nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Julius Beerwerth , Bassam Alrifaee