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Regularized optimal transport (OT) has received much attention in recent years starting from Cuturi's introduction of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence regularized OT. In this paper, we propose regularizing the OT problem using the family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jonas Bresch , Viktor Stein

This work introduces novel computational methods for entropic optimal transport (OT) problems under martingale-type conditions. The considered problems include the discrete martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem. Moreover, as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xun Tang , Michael Shavlovsky , Holakou Rahmanian , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

We propose novel fast algorithms for optimal transport (OT) utilizing a cyclic symmetry structure of input data. Such OT with cyclic symmetry appears universally in various real-world examples: image processing, urban planning, and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Shoichiro Takeda , Yasunori Akagi , Naoki Marumo , Kenta Niwa

This paper presents consideration of the Semi-Relaxed Sinkhorn (SR-Sinkhorn) algorithm for the semi-relaxed optimal transport (SROT) problem, which relaxes one marginal constraint of the standard OT problem. For evaluation of how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Takumi Fukunaga , Hiroyuki Kasai

The use of optimal transport cost for learning generative models has become popular with Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGAN). Training of WGAN relies on a theoretical background: the calculation of the gradient of the optimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-04 Antoine Houdard , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis , Julien Rabin

Optimal transport (OT) theory provides powerful tools to compare probability measures. However, OT is limited to nonnegative measures having the same mass, and suffers serious drawbacks about its computation and statistics. This leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-26 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen

Optimal transport is an important tool in machine learning, allowing to capture geometric properties of the data through a linear program on transport polytopes. We present a single-loop optimization algorithm for minimizing general convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marin Ballu , Quentin Berthet

This survey has been written in occasion of the School and Workshop about Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erd\"os Center in September 2022. We discuss some recent results on noncommutative entropic optimal transport problems and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lorenzo Portinale

In this paper, we propose the optimal production transport model, which is an extension of the classical optimal transport model. We observe in economics, the production of the factories can always be adjusted within a certain range, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jie Fan , Tianhao Wu , Hao Wu

We study limit theorems for entropic optimal transport (EOT) maps, dual potentials, and the Sinkhorn divergence. The key technical tool we use is a first and second-order Hadamard differentiability analysis of EOT potentials with respect to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato , Gabriel Rioux , Ritwik Sadhu

Optimal transport (OT) theory has attracted much attention in machine learning and signal processing applications. OT defines a notion of distance between probability distributions of source and target data points. A crucial factor that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Pratik Jawanpuria , Dai Shi , Bamdev Mishra , Junbin Gao

Correctly estimating the discrepancy between two data distributions has always been an important task in Machine Learning. Recently, Cuturi proposed the Sinkhorn distance which makes use of an approximate Optimal Transport cost between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Ying Lu , Liming Chen , Alexandre Saidi , Xianfeng Gu

Many interesting machine learning problems are best posed by considering instances that are distributions, or sample sets drawn from distributions. Previous work devoted to machine learning tasks with distributional inputs has done so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Danica J. Sutherland , Junier B. Oliva , Barnabás Póczos , Jeff Schneider

In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 John Lee , Max Dabagia , Eva L. Dyer , Christopher J. Rozell

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

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

This paper is devoted to the stochastic approximation of entropically regularized Wasserstein distances between two probability measures, also known as Sinkhorn divergences. The semi-dual formulation of such regularized optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot

We investigate finding a map $g$ within a function class $G$ that minimises an Optimal Transport (OT) cost between a target measure $\nu$ and the image by $g$ of a source measure $\mu$. This is relevant when an OT map from $\mu$ to $\nu$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Eloi Tanguy , Agnès Desolneux , Julie Delon

Entropic regularization provides a simple way to approximate linear programs whose constraints split into two or more tractable blocks. The resulting objectives are amenable to cyclic Kullback-Leibler (KL) Bregman projections, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Gabriel Peyré

This paper addresses the practical challenge in Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) where the underlying ground cost function is typically latent and unobserved. Rather than assuming a fixed geometric cost, we adopt a data-driven approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Antoine Debouchage , Xiaozhen Wang , Zhenjie Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse