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We consider entropically regularized, semi-discrete versions of variational problems on the set of probability measures involving optimal transport as well as other terms. We prove that the solutions can be characterized by well-posed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Adrien Cances , Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

The Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem plays increasingly important roles in computational biology, computational imaging and deep learning. Scaling algorithm is widely used to solve UOT due to its convenience and good convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Xiang Chen , Faqiang Wang , Jun Liu , Li Cui

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

Dynamic imaging is critical for understanding and visualizing dynamic biological processes in medicine and cell biology. These applications often encounter the challenge of a limited amount of time series data and time points, which hinders…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Sven Dummer , Puru Vaish , Christoph Brune

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 mass transport, also known as the earth mover's problem, is an optimization problem with important applications in various disciplines, including economics, probability theory, fluid dynamics, cosmology and geophysics to cite a few.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Said Kerrache , Yasushi Nakauchi

Poisson distributed measurements in inverse problems often stem from Poisson point processes that are observed through discretized or finite-resolution detectors, one of the most prominent examples being positron emission tomography (PET).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Marco Mauritz , Benedikt Wirth

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

Deep learning-based image restoration methods generally struggle with faithfully preserving the structures of the original image. In this work, we propose a novel Residual-Conditioned Optimal Transport (RCOT) approach, which models image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaole Tang , Xin Hu , Xiang Gu , Jian Sun

Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in numerous tasks. In this paper, we propose a continuous-time formulation of transformers. Specifically, we consider a dynamical system whose governing equation is parametrized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kelvin Kan , Xingjian Li , Stanley Osher

In optimal transport (OT), a Monge map is known as a mapping that transports a source distribution to a target distribution in the most cost-efficient way. Recently, multiple neural estimators for Monge maps have been developed and applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Luca Eyring , Dominik Klein , Théo Uscidda , Giovanni Palla , Niki Kilbertus , Zeynep Akata , Fabian Theis

We consider a Beckmann formulation of an unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. The $\Gamma$-convergence of this formulation of UOT to the corresponding optimal transport (OT) problem is established as the balancing parameter $\alpha$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Zhe Xiong , Lei Li , Ya-Nan Zhu , Xiaoqun Zhang

We study the unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem, where the marginal constraints are enforced using Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) regularization. Our work is motivated by the observation that the literature on UOT is focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Piyushi Manupriya , J. Saketha Nath , Pratik Jawanpuria

This paper presents a unified framework for smooth convex regularization of discrete optimal transport problems. In this context, the regularized optimal transport turns out to be equivalent to a matrix nearness problem with respect to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Arnaud Dessein , Nicolas Papadakis , Jean-Luc Rouas

Super resolution is an essential tool in optics, especially on interstellar scales, due to physical laws restricting possible imaging resolution. We propose using optimal transport and entropy for super resolution applications. We prove…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Michael Rawson , Jakob Hultgren

Unsupervised deep learning approaches have recently become one of the crucial research areas in imaging owing to their ability to learn expressive and powerful reconstruction operators even when paired high-quality training data is scarcely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Marcello Carioni , Subhadip Mukherjee , Hong Ye Tan , Junqi Tang

Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yujia Xie , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

We investigate the problem of sampling from posterior distributions with intractable normalizing constants in Bayesian inference. Our solution is a new generative modeling approach based on optimal transport (OT) that learns a deterministic…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-03 Ke Li , Wei Han , Yuexi Wang , Yun Yang

Numerous applications in signal processing have benefited from the theory of compressed sensing which shows that it is possible to reconstruct signals sampled below the Nyquist rate when certain conditions are satisfied. One of these…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Cagdas Bilen , Yao Wang , Ivan Selesnick

We rephrase Monge's optimal transportation (OT) problem with quadratic cost--via a Monge-Amp\`ere equation--as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is in fact a convex problem when the target is a log-concave measure with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Lindsey , Yanir A. Rubinstein