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We show that the method of maximum likelihood (MML) provides us with an efficient scheme for reconstruction of quantum channels from incomplete measurement data. By construction this scheme always results in estimations of channels that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mario Ziman , Martin Plesch , Vladimir Buzek , Peter Stelmachovic

The optimal transport (OT) map is a geometry-driven transformation between high-dimensional probability distributions which underpins a wide range of tasks in statistics, applied probability, and machine learning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Sloan Nietert , Ziv Goldfeld

We commonly encounter the problem of identifying an optimally weight adjusted version of the empirical distribution of observed data, adhering to predefined constraints on the weights. Such constraints often manifest as restrictions on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

Including terrain in atmospheric models gives rise to mesh distortions near the lower boundary that can degrade accuracy and challenge the stability of transport schemes. Multidimensional transport schemes avoid splitting errors on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 James Shaw , Hilary Weller , John Methven , Terry Davies

We propose a new method for local distance metric learning based on sample similarity as side information. These local metrics, which utilize conical combinations of metric weight matrices, are learned from the pooled spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 YInjie Huang , Cong Li , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

This paper proposes spatial lattice modulation (SLM), a spatial modulation method for multipleinput-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The key idea of SLM is to jointly exploit spatial, in-phase, and quadrature dimensions to modulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jiwook Choi , Yunseo Nam , Namyoon Lee

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Mobility Foundation Models (MFMs) have advanced the modeling of human movement patterns, yet they face a ceiling due to limitations in data scale and semantic understanding. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer powerful semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Fanjin Meng , Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Chonghua Han , Yong Li

This paper proposes a Multimarginal Optimal Transport ($MOT$) approach for simultaneously comparing $k\geq 2$ measures supported on finite subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 1$. We derive asymptotic distributions of the optimal value of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Natalia Kravtsova

We present monostatic sampling methods for limited-aperture scattering problems in two dimensions. The direct sampling method (DSM) is well known to provide a robust, stable, and fast numerical scheme for imaging inhomogeneities from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Sangwoo Kang , Mikyoung Lim

Determining the optimal model for a given task often requires training multiple models from scratch, which becomes impractical as dataset and model sizes grow. A more efficient alternative is to expand smaller pre-trained models, but this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pranshu Malviya , Jerry Huang , Aristide Baratin , Quentin Fournier , Sarath Chandar

Over the past few years, numerous computational models have been developed to solve Optimal Transport (OT) in a stochastic setting, where distributions are represented by samples and where the goal is to find the closest map to the ground…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Adrien Vacher , François-Xavier Vialard

Structure-from-Motion (SfM), a task aiming at jointly recovering camera poses and 3D geometry of a scene given a set of images, remains a hard problem with still many open challenges despite decades of significant progress. The traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bardienus Duisterhof , Lojze Zust , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Vincent Leroy , Yohann Cabon , Jerome Revaud

The study of the optical transmission matrix (TM) of a sample reveals important statistics of light transport through it. The accuracy of the statistics depends strongly on the orthogonality and completeness of the basis in which the TM is…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-29 Pritam Pai , Jeroen Bosch , Allard P. Mosk

Urban transportation systems encounter diverse challenges across multiple tasks, such as traffic forecasting, electric vehicle (EV) charging demand prediction, and taxi dispatch. Existing approaches suffer from two key limitations:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jiaming Leng , Yunying Bi , Chuan Qin , Bing Yin , Yanyong Zhang , Chao Wang

The aim of this paper is to prove isoperimetric inequalities on submanifolds of the Euclidean space using mass transportation methods. We obtain a sharp ?weighted isoperimetric inequality? and a nonsharp classical inequality similar to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Philippe Castillon

Various techniques have been developed to measure the 2D and 3D positions and 2D and 3D orientations of fluorescent molecules with improved precision over standard epifluorescence microscopes. Due to the challenging signal-to-background…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-02 Oumeng Zhang , Matthew D. Lew

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

Distance metric learning is a branch of machine learning that aims to learn distances from the data, which enhances the performance of similarity-based algorithms. This tutorial provides a theoretical background and foundations on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Juan Luis Suárez-Díaz , Salvador García , Francisco Herrera

Data classification without access to labeled samples remains a challenging problem. It usually depends on an appropriately chosen distance between features, a topic addressed in metric learning. Recently, Huizing, Cantini and Peyr\'e…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Janis Auffenberg , Jonas Bresch , Oleh Melnyk , Gabriele Steidl