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Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

The post-processing approaches are becoming prominent techniques to enhance machine learning models' fairness because of their intuitiveness, low computational cost, and excellent scalability. However, most existing post-processing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Gang Li , Qihang Lin , Ayush Ghosh , Tianbao Yang

Computationally solving multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) with squared Euclidean costs for $N$ discrete probability measures has recently attracted considerable attention, in part because of the correspondence of its solutions with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Johannes von Lindheim

We present a dynamical version for the multi-marginal optimal transport problem with infimal convolution cost, using the theory of Wasserstein barycentres. We show, how our formulation relates to the dynamical version of the multi-marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Friedemann Krannich

Consider a transportation problem with sets of sources and sinks. There are profits and prices on the edges. The goal is to maximize the profit while meeting the following constraints; the total flow going out of a source must not exceed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-26 S. Kapoor , M. Sarwat

This paper considers the problem of multi-agent distributed optimization. In this problem, there are multiple agents in the system, and each agent only knows its local cost function. The objective for the agents is to collectively compute a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

Multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) has emerged as a useful framework for many applied problems. However, compared to the well-studied classical two-marginal optimal transport theory, analysis of MOT is far more challenging and remains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Pengtao Li , Xiaohui Chen

Sampling-based motion planning is the predominant paradigm in many real-world robotic applications, but its performance is immensely dependent on the quality of the samples. The majority of traditional planners are inefficient as they use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tin Lai , Fabio Ramos

Optimal Transport (OT) problem aims to find a transport plan that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. OT theory has been widely utilized in generative modeling. In the beginning, OT distance has been used as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

This paper introduces a systematic methodological framework to design and analyze distributed algorithms for optimization and games over networks. Starting from a centralized method, we identify an aggregation function involving all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Mimmo , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We present a framework for building unsupervised representations of entities and their compositions, where each entity is viewed as a probability distribution rather than a vector embedding. In particular, this distribution is supported…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Sidak Pal Singh , Andreas Hug , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Martin Jaggi

We study the decentralized distributed computation of discrete approximations for the regularized Wasserstein barycenter of a finite set of continuous probability measures distributedly stored over a network. We assume there is a network of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov , César A. Uribe , Angelia Nedić

The unsupervised task of aligning two or more distributions in a shared latent space has many applications including fair representations, batch effect mitigation, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Existing flow-based approaches estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zeyu Zhou , Ziyu Gong , Pradeep Ravikumar , David I. Inouye

This paper studies a combined space partitioning and network flow optimization problem, with applications to large-scale power, transportation, or communication systems. In dense wireless networks, one may want to simultaneously optimize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Théo Laurentin , Patrick Coirault , Emmanuel Moulay , Antoine Lesage-Landry , Jerome Le Ny

This paper is concerned by statistical inference problems from a data set whose elements may be modeled as random probability measures such as multiple histograms or point clouds. We propose to review recent contributions in statistics on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Jérémie Bigot

Stochastic matching is the stochastic version of the well-known matching problem, which consists in maximizing the rewards of a matching under a set of probability distributions associated with the nodes and edges. In most stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Yuya Hikima , Yasunori Akagi , Hideaki Kim

This paper proposes a fully distributed termination method for distributed optimization algorithms solved by multiple agents. The proposed method guarantees terminating a distributed optimization algorithm after satisfying the global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Mohannad Alkhraijah , Daniel K. Molzahn

We propose a new \cu{class-optimal} algorithm for the distributed computation of Wasserstein Barycenters over networks. Assuming that each node in a graph has a probability distribution, we prove that every node can reach the barycenter of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 César A. Uribe , Darina Dvinskikh , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

A framework is proposed that addresses both conditional density estimation and latent variable discovery. The objective function maximizes explanation of variability in the data, achieved through the optimal transport barycenter generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Hongkang Yang , Esteban G. Tabak