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Optimal transport maps define a one-to-one correspondence between probability distributions, and as such have grown popular for machine learning applications. However, these maps are generally defined on empirical observations and cannot be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Lucas de Lara , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

Semi-supervised learning provides an effective paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to improve a model's performance. Among the many strategies proposed, graph-based methods have shown excellent properties, in particular since they allow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-29 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani

Several problems in machine learning are naturally expressed as the design and analysis of time-evolving probability distributions. This includes sampling via diffusion methods, optimizing the weights of neural networks, and analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Gabriel Peyré

Learning conditional distributions $\pi^*(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^*$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often…

Domain adaptation from one data space (or domain) to another is one of the most challenging tasks of modern data analytics. If the adaptation is done correctly, models built on a specific data space become more robust when confronted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Devis Tuia , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Theoretical works on supervised transfer learning (STL) -- where the learner has access to labeled samples from both source and target distributions -- have for the most part focused on statistical aspects of the problem, while efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Yuyang Deng , Samory Kpotufe

In this paper we develop a general framework for constructing and analysing coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers, allowing for both (possibly degenerate) diffusion and piecewise deterministic Markov processes. For many performance…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-29 N. Nuesken , G. A. Pavliotis

Optimal transport (OT) provides effective tools for comparing and mapping probability measures. We propose to leverage the flexibility of neural networks to learn an approximate optimal transport map. More precisely, we present a new and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

Estimating the reachable set of a dynamical system is a fundamental problem in control theory, particularly when control inputs are bounded. Direct simulation using randomly sampled admissible controls often leads to trajectories that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Sachin Shivakumar

In this paper, we present a novel and principled approach to learn the optimal transport between two distributions, from samples. Guided by the optimal transport theory, we learn the optimal Kantorovich potential which induces the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Sewoong Oh , Jason D. Lee

We study multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) problems where the underlying cost has a graphical structure. These graphical multi-marginal optimal transport problems have found applications in several domains including traffic flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

For a broad class of models widely used in practice for choice and ranking data based on Luce's choice axiom, including the Bradley--Terry--Luce and Plackett--Luce models, we show that the associated maximum likelihood estimation problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Zhaonan Qu , Alfred Galichon , Wenzhi Gao , Johan Ugander

This paper presents a widely applicable approach to solving (multi-marginal, martingale) optimal transport and related problems via neural networks. The core idea is to penalize the optimization problem in its dual formulation and reduce it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Stephan Eckstein , Michael Kupper

Estimating parameters from samples of an optimal probability distribution is essential in applications ranging from socio-economic modeling to biological system analysis. In these settings, the probability distribution arises as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Francisco Andrade , Gabriel Peyré , Clarice Poon

We propose a numerical method to find the optimal transport map between a measure supported on a lower-dimensional subset of R^d and a finitely supported measure. More precisely, the source measure is assumed to be supported on a simplex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Quentin Mérigot , Jocelyn Meyron , Boris Thibert

Optimal transport is an important tool in machine learning, allowing to capture geometric properties of the data through a linear program on transport polytopes. We present a single-loop optimization algorithm for minimizing general convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marin Ballu , Quentin Berthet

We propose a new approach for sampling and Bayesian computation that uses the score of the target distribution to construct a transport from a given reference distribution to the target. Our approach is an infinite-dimensional Newton…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Nisha Chandramoorthy , Florian Schaefer , Youssef Marzouk

Optimal transport (OT) aims to find a map $T$ that transports mass from one probability measure to another while minimizing a cost function. Recently, neural OT solvers have gained popularity in high dimensional biological applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Peter Chen , Yue Xie , Qingpeng Zhang

Self-training is a standard approach to semi-supervised learning where the learner's own predictions on unlabeled data are used as supervision during training. In this paper, we reinterpret this label assignment process as an optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Kai Sheng Tai , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant

Inspired by the matching of supply to demand in logistical problems, the optimal transport (or Monge--Kantorovich) problem involves the matching of probability distributions defined over a geometric domain such as a surface or manifold. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Justin Solomon