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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

This paper is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

We establish the validity of asymptotic limits for the general transportation problem between random i.i.d. points and their common distribution, with respect to the squared Euclidean distance cost, in any dimension larger than three.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Martin Huesmann , Michael Goldman , Dario Trevisan

We study the optimal transport problem in sub-Riemannian manifolds where the cost function is given by the square of the sub-Riemannian distance. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier-McCann's Theorem proving existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-15 Alessio Figalli , Ludovic Rifford

Optimal transport is a geometrically intuitive, robust and flexible metric for sample comparison in data analysis and machine learning. Its formal Riemannian structure allows for a local linearization via a tangent space approximation. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Clément Sarrazin , Bernhard Schmitzer

In 1966, Edward Nelson presented an interesting derivation of the Schrodinger equation using Brownian motion. Recently, this derivation is linked to the theory of optimal transport, which shows that the Schrodinger equation is a Hamiltonian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Shui-Nee Chow , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher

The paper studies the optimal density steering problem for nonlinear continuous-time stochastic systems. To accurately capture nonlinear dynamics in high-uncertainty regions that deviate significantly from a nominal linearization point, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Mattia Mosso , George Rapakoulias , Yue Guan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The Gromov-Wasserstein distances were proposed a few years ago to compare distributions which do not lie in the same space. In particular, they offer an interesting alternative to the Wasserstein distances for comparing probability measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Antoine Salmona , Julie Delon , Agnès Desolneux

We develop a full theory for the new class of Optimal Entropy-Transport problems between nonnegative and finite Radon measures in general topological spaces. They arise quite naturally by relaxing the marginal constraints typical of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

Machine learning systems operate under the assumption that training and test data are sampled from a fixed probability distribution. However, this assumptions is rarely verified in practice, as the conditions upon which data was acquired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Fred Maurice Ngolè Mboula , Antoine Souloumiac

In this paper the optimal transport and the metamorphosis perspectives are combined. For a pair of given input images geodesic paths in the space of images are defined as minimizers of a resulting path energy. To this end, the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Jan Maas , Martin Rumpf , Carola Schönlieb , Stefan Simon

A method is presented to solve a stochastic, nonlinear optimal control problem representative of spacecraft trajectory design under uncertainty. The problem is reformulated as a chance constrained nonlinear program, or what is known as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-05 William Fife , Pradipto Ghosh , Kyle DeMars

We will study variations in Sobolev spaces of optimal transport maps with the standard Gaussian measure as the reference measure. Some dimension free inequalities will be obtained. As application, we construct solutions to Monge-Ampere…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-23 Shizan Fang , Vincent Nolot

Classical regression models do not cover non-Euclidean data that reside in a general metric space, while the current literature on non-Euclidean regression by and large has focused on scenarios where either predictors or responses are…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-27 Changbo Zhu , Hans-Georg Müller

We derive explicitly the adapted $2$-Wasserstein distance between non-degenerate Gaussian distributions on $\mathbb{R}^N$ and characterize the optimal bicausal coupling(s). This leads to an adapted version of the Bures-Wasserstein distance…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Madhu Gunasingam , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

We present an optimal transport framework for performing regression when both the covariate and the response are probability distributions on a compact Euclidean subset $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d>1$. Extending beyond compactly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Laya Ghodrati , Victor M. Panaretos

We introduce a novel optimal transport framework for probabilistic circuits (PCs). While it has been shown recently that divergences between distributions represented as certain classes of PCs can be computed tractably, to the best of our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Adrian Ciotinga , YooJung Choi

We consider the optimal mass transportation problem in $\RR^d$ with measurably parameterized marginals, for general cost functions and under conditions ensuring the existence of a unique optimal transport map. We prove a joint measurability…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Joaquin Fontbona , Helene Guerin , Sylvie Meleard

Multivariate spatial fields are of interest in many applications, including climate model emulation. Not only can the marginal spatial fields be subject to nonstationarity, but the dependence structure among the marginal fields and between…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-21 Paul F. V. Wiemann , Matthias Katzfuss