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This paper describes Motion Planning Networks (MPNet), a computationally efficient, learning-based neural planner for solving motion planning problems. MPNet uses neural networks to learn general near-optimal heuristics for path planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Yinglong Miao , Anthony Simeonov , Michael C. Yip

In this paper, we tackle the transductive semi-supervised learning problem that aims to obtain label predictions for the given unlabeled data points according to Vapnik's principle. Our proposed approach is based on optimal transport, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani , Issam Falih

Optimal Transport (OT) distances are now routinely used as loss functions in ML tasks. Yet, computing OT distances between arbitrary (i.e. not necessarily discrete) probability distributions remains an open problem. This paper introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Arthur Mensch , Gabriel Peyré

Pattern discovery in data plays a crucial role across diverse domains, including healthcare, risk assessment, and machinery maintenance. In contrast to black-box deep learning models, symbolic rule discovery emerges as a key data mining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Young-Chae Hong , Yangho Chen

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

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

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

In multi-task reinforcement learning, it is possible to improve the data efficiency of training agents by transferring knowledge from other different but related tasks. Because the experiences from different tasks are usually biased toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Bang Giang Le , Viet Cuong Ta

In the field of optimal transport, two prominent subfields face each other: (i) unregularized optimal transport, "\`a-la-Kantorovich", which leads to extremely sparse plans but with algorithms that scale poorly, and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ehsan Amid , Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock , Manfred K. Warmuth

Optimal Transport is a popular distance metric for measuring similarity between distributions. Exact algorithms for computing Optimal Transport can be slow, which has motivated the development of approximate numerical solvers (e.g. Sinkhorn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Nathaniel Lahn , Sharath Raghvendra , Kaiyi Zhang

This paper improves the state-of-the-art rate of a first-order algorithm for solving entropy regularized optimal transport. The resulting rate for approximating the optimal transport (OT) has been improved from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yiling Luo , Yiling Xie , Xiaoming Huo

Semi-supervised learning has made remarkable strides by effectively utilizing a limited amount of labeled data while capitalizing on the abundant information present in unlabeled data. However, current algorithms often prioritize aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zhiquan Tan , Kaipeng Zheng , Weiran Huang

We introduce a new framework for efficient sampling from complex probability distributions, using a combination of optimal transport maps and the Metropolis-Hastings rule. The core idea is to use continuous transportation to transform…

Computation · Statistics 2019-06-11 Matthew Parno , Youssef Marzouk

Optimization of non-convex loss surfaces containing many local minima remains a critical problem in a variety of domains, including operations research, informatics, and material design. Yet, current techniques either require extremely high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Amil Merchant , Luke Metz , Sam Schoenholz , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Now that spike trains from many neurons can be recorded simultaneously, there is a need for methods to decode these data to learn about the networks that these neurons are part of. One approach to this problem is to adjust the parameters of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-10 John Hertz , Yasser Roudi , Joanna Tyrcha

Improving traffic management in case of perturbation is one of the main challenges in today's railway research. The great majority of the existing literature proposes approaches to make centralized decisions to minimize delay propagation.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Federico Naldini , Fabio Oddi , Leo D'Amato , Grégory Marlière , Vito Trianni , Paola Pellegrini

The time-fractional optimal transport (OT) and mean-field planning (MFP) models are developed to describe the anomalous transport of the agents in a heterogeneous environment such that their densities are transported from the initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Yiqun Li , Hong Wang , Wuchen Li

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

We present a bipartite network model that captures intermediate stages of optimization by blending the Maximum Entropy approach with Optimal Transport. In this framework, the network's constraints define the total mass each node can supply…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Lorenzo Buffa , Dario Mazzilli , Riccardo Piombo , Fabio Saracco , Giulio Cimini , Aurelio Patelli

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang