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Optimal Transport (OT) distances such as Wasserstein have been used in several areas such as GANs and domain adaptation. OT, however, is very sensitive to outliers (samples with large noise) in the data since in its objective function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yogesh Balaji , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

Standard representational similarity methods align each layer of a network to its best match in another independently, producing asymmetric results, lacking a global alignment score, and struggling with networks of different depths. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shaan Shah , Meenakshi Khosla

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to estimate a transferable model for unlabeled target domains by exploiting labeled source data. Optimal Transport (OT) based methods have recently been proven to be a promising solution for UDA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yingxue Xu , Guihua Wen , Yang Hu , Pei Yang

The ability to align points across two related yet incomparable point clouds (e.g. living in different spaces) plays an important role in machine learning. The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) framework provides an increasingly popular answer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Meyer Scetbon , Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

Graph matching is one of the most significant graph analytic tasks, which aims to find the node correspondence across different graphs. Most existing graph matching approaches mainly rely on topological information, whose performances are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoran Cheng , Dixin Luo , Hongteng Xu

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub

Recent studies have proposed different methods to improve multilingual word representations in contextualized settings including techniques that align between source and target embedding spaces. For contextualized embeddings, alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sawsan Alqahtani , Garima Lalwani , Yi Zhang , Salvatore Romeo , Saab Mansour

Finding node correspondence across networks, namely multi-network alignment, is an essential prerequisite for joint learning on multiple networks. Despite great success in aligning networks in pairs, the literature on multi-network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Zhichen Zeng , Boxin Du , Si Zhang , Yinglong Xia , Zhining Liu , Hanghang Tong

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

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a central tool in data sciences to compare in a geometrically faithful way point clouds and more generally probability distributions. The wide adoption of OT into existing data analysis and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

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

Comparing graphs by means of optimal transport has recently gained significant attention, as the distances induced by optimal transport provide both a principled metric between graphs as well as an interpretable description of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 James S. Nagai , Ivan G. Costa , Michael T. Schaub

Existing machine learning literature lacks graph-based domain adaptation techniques capable of handling large distribution shifts, primarily due to the difficulty in simulating a coherent evolutionary path from source to target graph. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Pui Ieng Lei , Ximing Chen , Yijun Sheng , Yanyan Liu , Zhiguo Gong , Qiang Yang

The assignment problem, a cornerstone of operations research, seeks an optimal one-to-one mapping between agents and tasks to minimize total cost. This work traces its evolution from classical formulations and algorithms to modern optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Iman Seyedi , Antonio Candelieri , Enza Messina , Francesco Archetti

In computer vision and machine learning for geographic data, out-of-domain generalization is a pervasive challenge, arising from uneven global data coverage and distribution shifts across geographic regions. Though models are frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haoran Zhang , Livia Betti , Konstantin Klemmer , Esther Rolf , David Alvarez-Melis

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully used in many problems involving graph-structured data, achieving state-of-the-art performance. GNNs typically employ a message-passing scheme, in which every node aggregates information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Michail Chatzianastasis , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , George Dasoulas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment are powerful frameworks for geometrically driven matching of probability distributions, yet their large-scale usage is hampered by high statistical and computational costs.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Tao Wang , Ziv Goldfeld

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach called class-aware optimal transport (OT), which measures the OT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Tuan Nguyen , Van Nguyen , Trung Le , He Zhao , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung