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Optimal Transport has received much attention in Machine Learning as it allows to compare probability distributions by exploiting the geometry of the underlying space. However, in its original formulation, solving this problem suffers from…

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An interval transportation problem represents a model for a transportation problem in which the values of supply, demand, and transportation costs are affected by uncertainty and can vary independently within given interval ranges. One of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Elif Radová Garajová , Miroslav Rada

We show the application of an optimal transportation approach to estimate stochastic volatility process by using the flow that optimally transports the set of particles from the prior to a posterior distribution. We also show how to direct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Raphael Douady , Shohruh Miryusupov

We consider the optimal transport problem between multivariate Gaussian stationary stochastic processes. The transportation effort is the variance of the filtered discrepancy process. The main contribution of this technical note is to show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Mattia Zorzi

Trajectory planning for automated vehicles commonly employs optimization over a moving horizon - Model Predictive Control - where the cost function critically influences the resulting driving style. However, finding a suitable cost function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Lukas Theiner , Sebastian Hirt , Alexander Steinke , Rolf Findeisen

Experimental design is crucial for inference where limitations in the data collection procedure are present due to cost or other restrictions. Optimal experimental designs determine parameters that in some appropriate sense make the data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-11 Panagiotis Tsilifis , Roger G. Ghanem , Paris Hajali

Express transportation network design is uncertain because origin--destination demand, travel time, operating cost, hub congestion, and realized sorting productivity vary over time. Existing multi-topology express network models usually…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2026-05-08 Debashis Chatterjee

We discuss methods of Optimal Transportation Theory and its relations to problems in quantum mechanics. This essentially means that the cost function is some Hamiltonian $H(q,p)$ on a phase space (symplectic manifold), and the marginal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Kurt Pagani

In many human-in-the-loop robotic applications such as robot-assisted surgery and remote teleoperation, predicting the intended motion of the human operator may be useful for successful implementation of shared control, guidance virtual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Arun Kumar Singh , Sigal Berman , Ilana Nisky

We develop an inferential toolkit for analyzing object-valued responses, which correspond to data situated in general metric spaces, paired with Euclidean predictors within the conformal framework. To this end we introduce conditional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-01 Hang Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

Stochastic localization is a pathwise analysis technique originating from convex geometry. This paper explores certain algorithmic aspects of stochastic localization as a computational tool. First, we unify various existing stochastic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Tom Alberts , Yiming Xu , Qiang Ye

A multivariate distribution can be described by a triangular transport map from the target distribution to a simple reference distribution. We propose Bayesian nonparametric inference on the transport map by modeling its components using…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-18 Matthias Katzfuss , Florian Schäfer

Classic optimal transport theory is formulated through minimizing the expected transport cost between two given distributions. We propose the framework of distorted optimal transport by minimizing a distorted expected cost, which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Haiyan Liu , Bin Wang , Ruodu Wang , Sheng Chao Zhuang

Recent advances in large-scale optimal transport have greatly extended its application scenarios in machine learning. However, existing methods either not explicitly learn the transport map or do not support general cost function. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Guansong Lu , Zhiming Zhou , Jian Shen , Cheng Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

We introduce $\textit{Stein transport}$, a novel methodology for Bayesian inference designed to efficiently push an ensemble of particles along a predefined curve of tempered probability distributions. The driving vector field is chosen…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-02 Nikolas Nüsken

Wasserstein distances are metrics on probability distributions inspired by the problem of optimal mass transportation. Roughly speaking, they measure the minimal effort required to reconfigure the probability mass of one distribution in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-10 Victor M. Panaretos , Yoav Zemel

We investigate the optimal transport problem between probability measures when the underlying cost function is understood to satisfy a least action principle, also known as a Lagrangian cost. These generalizations are useful when connecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Brandon Amos

We consider the problem of transforming samples from one continuous source distribution into samples from another target distribution. We demonstrate with optimal transport theory that when the source distribution can be easily sampled from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-30 Sanggyun Kim , Diego Mesa , Rui Ma , Todd P. Coleman

In this paper, we prove a structure theorem for discrete optimal transportation plans. We show that, given any pair of discrete probability measures and a cost function, there exists an optimal transportation plan that can be expressed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Gennaro Auricchio , Marco Veneroni

Optimal transport provides an inherently geometric and highly structured framework for studying spaces of probability measures, supplying a rich theoretical toolkit for contemporary statistics, machine learning, and generative modelling. In…

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