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We consider so-called branched transport and variants thereof in two space dimensions. In these models one seeks an optimal transportation network for a given mass transportation task. In two space dimensions, they are closely connected to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Carolin Dirks , Benedikt Wirth

We present several algorithms designed to learn a pattern of correspondence between two data sets in situations where it is desirable to match elements that exhibit a relationship belonging to a known parametric model. In the motivating…

Optimal transport (OT) is a framework that can be used to guide the optimal allocation of a limited amount of resources. The classical OT paradigm does not consider malicious attacks in its formulation and thus the designed transport plan…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

Optimal transport (OT) has gained popularity due to its various applications in fields such as machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. However, the balanced mass requirement limits its performance in practical problems. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yikun Bai , Ivan Medri , Rocio Diaz Martin , Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Soheil Kolouri

We propose TAROT, a targeted data selection framework grounded in optimal transport theory. Previous targeted data selection methods primarily rely on influence-based greedy heuristics to enhance domain-specific performance. While effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Lan Feng , Fan Nie , Yuejiang Liu , Alexandre Alahi

We study the Neural Optimal Transport (NOT) algorithm which uses the general optimal transport formulation and learns stochastic transport plans. We show that NOT with the weak quadratic cost might learn fake plans which are not optimal. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexander Korotin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev

Optimal transport is a powerful framework for the efficient allocation of resources between sources and targets. However, traditional models often struggle to scale effectively in the presence of large and heterogeneous populations. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Navpreet Kaur , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu

Min cut is an important graph partitioning method. However, current solutions to the min cut problem suffer from slow speeds, difficulty in solving, and often converge to simple solutions. To address these issues, we relax the min cut…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Fangyuan Xie , Jinghui Yuan , Feiping Nie , Xuelong Li

The mismatch capacity characterizes the highest information rate of the channel under a prescribed decoding metric and serves as a critical performance indicator in numerous practical communication scenarios. Compared to the commonly used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Xinwei Li , Lingyi Chen , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem. In practice, recent approaches optimize a weak dual EOT objective depending on a single potential, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roman Dyachenko , Nikita Gushchin , Kirill Sokolov , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used tool in machine learning, but computing high-accuracy solutions for large instances remains costly. Entropic regularization and the Sinkhorn algorithm improve scalability; however, when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Di Wu , Ling Liang , Haizhao Yang

This paper improves the state-of-the-art rate of a first-order algorithm for solving entropy regularized optimal transport. The resulting rate for approximating the optimal transport (OT) has been improved from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yiling Luo , Yiling Xie , Xiaoming Huo

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

We study multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) problems where the underlying cost has a graphical structure. These graphical multi-marginal optimal transport problems have found applications in several domains including traffic flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

This paper addresses an Optimal Transport (OT)-based efficient multi-robot exploration problem, considering the energy constraints of a multi-robot system. The efficiency in this problem implies how a team of robots (agents) covers a given…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Rabiul Hasan Kabir , Kooktae Lee

We study the factor model problem, which aims to uncover low-dimensional structures in high-dimensional datasets. Adopting a robust data-driven approach, we formulate the problem as a saddle-point optimization. Our primary contribution is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Shabnam Khodakaramzadeh , Soroosh Shafiee , Gabriel de Albuquerque Gleizer , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Regularizing the optimal transport (OT) problem has proven crucial for OT theory to impact the field of machine learning. For instance, it is known that regularizing OT problems with entropy leads to faster computations and better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-04 François-Pierre Paty , Marco Cuturi

All-in-one image restoration has emerged as a practical and promising low-level vision task for real-world applications. In this context, the key issue lies in how to deal with different types of degraded images simultaneously. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaole Tang , Xiang Gu , Xiaoyi He , Xin Hu , Jian Sun

We propose a new colour transfer method with Optimal Transport (OT) to transfer the colour of a sourceimage to match the colour of a target image of the same scene that may exhibit large motion changes betweenimages. By definition OT does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hana Alghamdi , Rozenn Dahyot