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We study the problem of network regression, where one is interested in how the topology of a network changes as a function of Euclidean covariates. We build upon recent developments in generalized regression models on metric spaces based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-19 Alex G. Zalles , Kai M. Hung , Ann E. Finneran , Lydia Beaudrot , César A. Uribe

The optimal transport (OT) problem has gained significant traction in modern machine learning for its ability to: (1) provide versatile metrics, such as Wasserstein distances and their variants, and (2) determine optimal couplings between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinran Liu , Rocío Díaz Martín , Yikun Bai , Ashkan Shahbazi , Matthew Thorpe , Akram Aldroubi , Soheil Kolouri

Optimal transport has recently been brought forward as a tool for modeling and efficiently solving a variety of flow problems, such as origin-destination problems and multi-commodity flow problems. Although the framework has shown to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Anqi Dong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Johan Karlsson

Wasserstein Barycenter (WB) is one of the most fundamental optimization problems in optimal transportation. Given a set of distributions, the goal of WB is to find a new distribution that minimizes the average Wasserstein distance to them.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Qingyuan Yang , Hu Ding

Assume that we observe i.i.d.~points lying close to some unknown $d$-dimensional $\mathcal{C}^k$ submanifold $M$ in a possibly high-dimensional space. We study the problem of reconstructing the probability distribution generating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Vincent Divol

In this work, we consider the matrix completion problem, where the objective is to reconstruct a low-rank matrix from a few observed entries. A commonly employed approach involves nuclear norm minimization. For this method to succeed, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Hamideh. Sadat Fazael Ardakani , Sajad Daei , Arash Amini , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor

The main objective of this study is to propose an optimal transport based semi-supervised approach to learn from scarce labelled image data using deep convolutional networks. The principle lies in implicit graph-based transductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Antoine Blais , Nicolas Couëllan

Parameter estimation is a fundamental challenge in machine learning, crucial for tasks such as neural network weight fitting and Bayesian inference. This paper focuses on the complexity of estimating translation $\boldsymbol{\mu} \in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Valentio Iverson , Stephen Vavasis

In this article, we present an approximation algorithm for solving the Weighted Region Problem amidst a set of $ n $ non-overlapping weighted disks in the plane. For a given parameter $ \varepsilon \in (0,1]$, the length of the approximate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Guillermo Esteban , Anil Maheshwari

We propose a novel end-to-end non-minimax algorithm for training optimal transport mappings for the quadratic cost (Wasserstein-2 distance). The algorithm uses input convex neural networks and a cycle-consistency regularization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Alexander Korotin , Vage Egiazarian , Arip Asadulaev , Alexander Safin , Evgeny Burnaev

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances and more generally optimal transport (OT) theory are playing an increasingly important role in data sciences. Such problems can be used to form an examplar measure out of various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

We consider a general task called partial Wasserstein covering with the goal of providing information on what patterns are not being taken into account in a dataset (e.g., dataset used during development) compared with another dataset(e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide , Keisuke Otaki

Existing work within transfer learning often follows a two-step process -- pre-training over a large-scale source domain and then finetuning over limited samples from the target domain. Yet, despite its popularity, this methodology has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Akul Goyal , Carl Edwards

We introduce a new approach to the maximum flow problem in undirected, capacitated graphs using $\alpha$-\emph{congestion-approximators}: easy-to-compute functions that approximate the congestion required to route single-commodity demands…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Jonah Sherman

The clustering problem, and more generally, latent factor discovery --or latent space inference-- is formulated in terms of the Wasserstein barycenter problem from optimal transport. The objective proposed is the maximization of the…

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

We propose a family of relaxations of the optimal transport problem which regularize the problem by introducing an additional minimization step over a small region around one of the underlying transporting measures. The type of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Saied Mahdian , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

Projection robust Wasserstein (PRW) distance, or Wasserstein projection pursuit (WPP), is a robust variant of the Wasserstein distance. Recent work suggests that this quantity is more robust than the standard Wasserstein distance, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Tianyi Lin , Chenyou Fan , Nhat Ho , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

A novel neural architecture was recently developed that enforces an exact upper bound on the Lipschitz constant of the model by constraining the norm of its weights in a minimal way, resulting in higher expressiveness compared to other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Mike Williams

We consider synthesis and analysis of probability measures using the entropy-regularized Wasserstein-2 cost and its unbiased version, the Sinkhorn divergence. The synthesis problem consists of computing the barycenter, with respect to these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-25 Brendan Mallery , James M. Murphy , Shuchin Aeron

Optimal transport is widely used to learn distributions, enforce distributional constraints, and model uncertainty. In applications, transport losses are often computed from samples through tractable representations, such as one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le