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Optimal Transport is a useful metric to compare probability distributions and to compute a pairing given a ground cost. Its entropic regularization variant (eOT) is crucial to have fast algorithms and reflect fuzzy/noisy matchings. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Francisco Andrade , Gabriel Peyre , Clarice Poon

Optimal transport induces the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein) distance between probability distributions, a geometric divergence that is relevant to a wide range of problems. Over the last decade, two relaxations of optimal transport have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Jean Feydy , François-Xavier Vialard , Alain Trouvé , Gabriel Peyré

We investigate unpaired image inverse problems, a challenging setting where only independent, non-paired sets of noisy measurements and clean target signals are available for training. We propose a novel inverse problem solver based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Donggyu Lee , Taekyung Lee , Jaewoong Choi

Prior research on out-of-distribution detection (OoDD) has primarily focused on single-modality models. Recently, with the advent of large-scale pretrained vision-language models such as CLIP, OoDD methods utilizing such multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jeonghyeon Kim , Sangheum Hwang

Existing two-sample testing techniques, particularly those based on choosing a kernel for the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), often assume equal sample sizes from the two distributions. Applying these methods in practice can require…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-17 Aaron Wei , Milad Jalali , Danica J. Sutherland

We propose MMD-OPT: a sample-efficient approach for minimizing the risk of collision under arbitrary prediction distribution of the dynamic obstacles. MMD-OPT is based on embedding distribution in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Basant Sharma , Arun Kumar Singh

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

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

The goal of this paper is to introduce a new theoretical framework for Optimal Transport (OT), using the terminology and techniques of Fully Probabilistic Design (FPD). Optimal Transport is the canonical method for comparing probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sarah Boufelja Y. , Anthony Quinn , Martin Corless , Robert Shorten

The optimal transport (OT) problem has gained significant traction in modern machine learning for its ability to: (1) provide versatile metrics, such as Wasserstein distances and their variants, and (2) determine optimal couplings between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinran Liu , Rocío Díaz Martín , Yikun Bai , Ashkan Shahbazi , Matthew Thorpe , Akram Aldroubi , Soheil Kolouri

Regularized optimal transport (OT) is now increasingly used as a loss or as a matching layer in neural networks. Entropy-regularized OT can be computed using the Sinkhorn algorithm but it leads to fully-dense transportation plans, meaning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Tianlin Liu , Joan Puigcerver , Mathieu Blondel

Optimal Transport (OT) is a fundamental tool for comparing probability distributions, but its exact computation remains prohibitive for large datasets. In this work, we introduce novel families of upper and lower bounds for the OT problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 David Alvarez-Melis , Nicolò Fusi , Lester Mackey , Tal Wagner

We develop a statistical inference method for an optimal transport map between distributions on real numbers with uniform confidence bands. The concept of optimal transport (OT) is used to measure distances between distributions, and OT…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Donlapark Ponnoprat , Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi

Many works in statistics aim at designing a universal estimation procedure, that is, an estimator that would converge to the best approximation of the (unknown) data generating distribution in a model, without any assumption on this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif , Pierre Alquier

This work establishes that an optimal transport~(OT) problem regularized by a given $f$-divergence admits the same solution as another OT problem regularized by a different $g$-divergence, under an appropriate transformation of the cost…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Maxime Nicaise , Yaiza Bermudez , Samir M. Perlaza

Likelihood-free inference methods typically make use of a distance between simulated and real data. A common example is the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), which has previously been used for approximate Bayesian computation, minimum…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-11 Ayush Bharti , Masha Naslidnyk , Oscar Key , Samuel Kaski , François-Xavier Briol

This paper concerns the application of techniques from optimal transport (OT) to mean field control, in which the probability measures of interest in OT correspond to empirical distributions associated with a large collection of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Thomas Le Corre , Ana Busic , Sean Meyn

Aggregating data from multiple sources can be formalized as an Optimal Transport (OT) barycenter problem, which seeks to compute the average of probability distributions with respect to OT discrepancies. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Milena Gazdieva , Jaemoo Choi , Alexander Kolesov , Jaewoong Choi , Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Clément Bonet

Neural network-based optimal transport (OT) is a recent and fruitful direction in the generative modeling community. It finds its applications in various fields such as domain translation, image super-resolution, computational biology and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Roman Tarasov , Petr Mokrov , Milena Gazdieva , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin
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