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We provide a framework to approximate the 2-Wasserstein distance and the optimal transport map, amenable to efficient training as well as statistical and geometric analysis. With the quadratic cost and considering the Kantorovich dual form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Amin Jalali

Imputation of random or non-random missing data is a long-standing research topic and a crucial application for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, with the advent of modern communication technologies such as Global Satellite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yihang Lu , Mahwish Yousaf , Xianwei Meng , Enhong Chen

We propose a fast and scalable algorithm to project a given density on a set of structured measures defined over a compact 2D domain. The measures can be discrete or supported on curves for instance. The proposed principle and algorithm are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat , Pierre Weiss

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is integral to the functioning of power systems, aiming to optimize generation dispatch while adhering to technical and operational constraints. These constraints are far from straightforward; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andrew Rosemberg , Mathieu Tanneau , Bruno Fanzeres , Joaquim Garcia , Pascal Van Hentenryck

This paper introduces a novel neural network-based approach to solving the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with the transport boundary condition, specifically targeted towards optical design applications. We leverage multilayer perceptron networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Roel Hacking , Lisa Kusch , Koondanibha Mitra , Martijn Anthonissen , Wilbert IJzerman

Optimal transport (OT) theory describes general principles to define and select, among many possible choices, the most efficient way to map a probability measure onto another. That theory has been mostly used to estimate, given a pair of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause , Marco Cuturi

Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models provide a flexible statistical framework for modeling heterogeneity and nonlinear relationships. In many modern applications, however, datasets are naturally distributed across multiple machines due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Faïcel Chamroukhi , Nhat Thien Pham

Optimal Transport (OT) is being widely used in various fields such as machine learning and computer vision, as it is a powerful tool for measuring the similarity between probability distributions and histograms. In previous studies, OT has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Yasunori Akagi , Yusuke Tanaka , Tomoharu Iwata , Takeshi Kurashima , Hiroyuki Toda

Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zezeng Li , ShengHao Li , Zhanpeng Wang , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Xianfeng Gu

We investigate in this work a versatile convex framework for multiple image segmentation, relying on the regularized optimal mass transport theory. In this setting, several transport cost functions are considered and used to match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Nicolas Papadakis , Julien Rabin

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in adopting deep neural networks (DNNs) for solving the optimal power flow (OPF) problem in power systems. Computing optimal generation dispatch decisions using a trained DNN takes significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yexiang Chen , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Carsten Maple , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the finite horizon optimal steering of the joint state probability distribution subject to the angular velocity dynamics governed by the Euler equation. The problem and its solution amounts to controlling the spin of a rigid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Charlie Yan , Iman Nodozi , Abhishek Halder

We consider so-called branched transport and variants thereof in two space dimensions. In these models one seeks an optimal transportation network for a given mass transportation task. In two space dimensions, they are closely connected to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Carolin Dirks , Benedikt Wirth

Cross-modal matching, a fundamental task in bridging vision and language, has recently garnered substantial research interest. Despite the development of numerous methods aimed at quantifying the semantic relatedness between image-text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengxin Pan , Haishuai Wang , Fangyu Wu , Bailing Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Hongyang Chen

Unbalanced optimal mass transport (OMT) seeks to remove the conservation of mass constraint by adding a source term to the standard continuity equation in the Benamou-Brenier formulation of OMT. In this note, we show how the addition of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Jiening Zhu , Rena Elkin , Jung Hun Oh , Joseph O. Deasy , Allen Tannenbaum

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide expressive representations of invertible transport maps that can be used to approximate complex probability distributions, e.g., for generative modeling, density estimation, and Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Youssef Marzouk , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech

We show that a class of Poincar\'e-Wirtinger inequalities on bounded convex sets can be obtained by means of the dynamical formulation of Optimal Transport. This is a consequence of a more general result valid for convex sets, possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Lorenzo Brasco , Filippo Santambrogio

We study the problem of estimating a function $T$ given independent samples from a distribution $P$ and from the pushforward distribution $T_\sharp P$. This setting is motivated by applications in the sciences, where $T$ represents the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Vincent Divol , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) have been proven to be effective for various computer vision problems. In this work, we demonstrate its effectiveness on a continuous object orientation estimation task, which requires prediction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Kota Hara , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Rama Chellappa

Computing exact Optimal Transport (OT) distances for large-scale datasets is computationally prohibitive. While entropy-regularized alternatives offer speed, they sacrifice precision and frequently suffer from numerical instability in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jianting Pan , Ji'an Li , Ming Yan