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We develop a maximum relative entropy formalism to generate optimal approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist in (a) justifying the use of relative entropy as the uniquely natural criterion to select a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-17 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

Finding the optimal embedding of networks into low-dimensional hyperbolic spaces is a challenge that received considerable interest in recent years, with several different approaches proposed in the literature. In general, these methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-08 Bendegúz Sulyok , Gergely Palla

Consider a simple finite graph and its nodes to represent identical water barrels (containing different amounts of water) on a level plane. Each edge corresponds to a (locked, water-filled) pipe connecting two barrels below the plane. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Timo Vilkas

We introduce a new class of objectives for optimal transport computations of datasets in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. The new objectives are parametrized by $\rho \geq 1$, and provide a metric space $\mathcal{R}_{\rho}(\cdot, \cdot)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Moses Charikar , Beidi Chen , Christopher Re , Erik Waingarten

This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason 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 study the convergence of entropically regularized optimal transport to optimal transport. The main result is concerned with the convergence of the associated optimizers and takes the form of a large deviations principle quantifying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Espen Bernton , Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

The network reconfiguration problem seeks to find a rooted tree $T$ such that the energy of the (unique) feasible electrical flow over $T$ is minimized. The tree requirement on the support of the flow is motivated by operational constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Swati Gupta , Ali Khodabakhsh , Hassan Mortagy , Evdokia Nikolova

Global pooling is one of the most significant operations in many machine learning models and tasks, which works for information fusion and structured data (like sets and graphs) representation. However, without solid mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Hongteng Xu , Minjie Cheng

We study the entropic regularizations of optimal transport problems under suitable summability assumptions on the point-wise transport cost. These summability assumptions already appear in the literature. However, we show that the weakest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale , Anna Kausamo

The classical (overdamped) Langevin dynamics provide a natural algorithm for sampling from its invariant measure, which uniquely minimizes an energy functional over the space of probability measures, and which concentrates around the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Giovanni Conforti , Daniel Lacker , Soumik Pal

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

We study the linearization of a discrete transportation distance between probability distributions on finite weighted graphs originally due to Maas (``Gradient flows of the entropy for finite {M}arkov chains,'' J. Funct. Anal. 261(8), 2011)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Sawyer Robertson , Zhengchao Wan , Alexander Cloninger

Graph summarization is the problem of producing smaller graph representations of an input graph dataset, in such a way that the smaller compressed graphs capture relevant structural information for downstream tasks. There is a recent graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Sepideh Neshatfar , Abram Magner , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

This paper studies the equitable and optimal transport (EOT) problem, which has many applications such as fair division problems and optimal transport with multiple agents etc. In the discrete distributions case, the EOT problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

Optimal transport has emerged as a fundamental methodology with applications spanning multiple research areas in recent years. However, the convergence rate of the empirical estimator to its population counterpart suffers from the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

Trajectory optimization and model predictive control are essential techniques underpinning advanced robotic applications, ranging from autonomous driving to full-body humanoid control. State-of-the-art algorithms have focused on data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Hany Abdulsamad , Tim Dorau , Boris Belousov , Jia-Jie Zhu , Jan Peters

The paper represents an algorithm for planning safe and optimal routes for transport facilities with unrestricted movement direction that travel within areas with obstacles. Paper explains the algorithm using a ship as an example of such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ivan Yanchin , Oleg Petrov

Intelligent transportation systems have recently emerged to address the growing interest for safer, more efficient, and sustainable transportation solutions. In this direction, this paper presents distributed algorithms for control and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Recent literature has proved that stable dynamic routing algorithms have solid theoretical foundation that makes them suitable to be implemented in a real protocol, and used in practice in many different operational network contexts. Such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Luca Muscariello , Diego Perino