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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

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

Ensuring fairness in matching algorithms is a key challenge in allocating scarce resources and positions. Focusing on Optimal Transport (OT), we introduce a novel notion of group fairness requiring that the probability of matching two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Linus Bleistein , Mathieu Dagréou , Francisco Andrade , Thomas Boudou , Aurélien Bellet

Graph Crossing Number is a fundamental problem with various applications. In this problem, the goal is to draw an input graph $G$ in the plane so as to minimize the number of crossings between the images of its edges. Despite extensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Julia Chuzhoy , Sepideh Mahabadi , Zihan Tan

Fairness has been taken as a critical metric in machine learning models, which is considered as an important component of trustworthy machine learning. In this paper, we focus on obtaining fairness for popular link prediction tasks, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Moyi Yang , Junjie Sheng , Xiangfeng Wang , Wenyan Liu , Bo Jin , Jun Wang , Hongyuan Zha

We introduce an optimal transport based approach for comparing undirected graphs with non-negative edge weights and general vertex labels, and we study connections between the resulting linear program and the graph isomorphism problem. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Phuong N. Hoàng , Kevin McGoff , Andrew B. Nobel , Yang Xiang , Bongsoo Yi

A novel Gromov-Wasserstein learning framework is proposed to jointly match (align) graphs and learn embedding vectors for the associated graph nodes. Using Gromov-Wasserstein discrepancy, we measure the dissimilarity between two graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Hongteng Xu , Dixin Luo , Hongyuan Zha , Lawrence Carin

Many graph problems can be solved using ordered parallel graph algorithms that achieve significant speedup over their unordered counterparts by reducing redundant work. This paper introduces a new priority-based extension to GraphIt, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Yunming Zhang , Ajay Brahmakshatriya , Xinyi Chen , Laxman Dhulipala , Shoaib Kamil , Saman Amarasinghe , Julian Shun

The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

Graph matching aims to find correspondences between two graphs. This paper integrates several well-known graph matching algorithms into a framework: the constrained gradient method. The primary difference among these algorithms lies in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Binrui Shen , Qiang Niu , Shengxin Zhu

Solving point-wise feature correspondence in visual data is a fundamental problem in computer vision. A powerful model that addresses this challenge is to formulate it as graph matching, which entails solving a Quadratic Assignment Problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yongqing Liang , Huijun Han , Xin Li

Finding an optimal assignment between two sets of objects is a fundamental problem arising in many applications, including the matching of `bag-of-words' representations in natural language processing and computer vision. Solving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Nils M. Kriege , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Franka Bause , Richard C. Wilson

This thesis studies the graph alignment problem, the noisy version of the graph isomorphism problem, which aims to find a matching between the nodes of two graphs which preserves most of the edges. Focusing on the planted version where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Luca Ganassali

We propose a new approach to graph compression by appeal to optimal transport. The transport problem is seeded with prior information about node importance, attributes, and edges in the graph. The transport formulation can be setup for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Vikas K. Garg , Tommi Jaakkola

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

In this paper, we study the problem of map matching with travel time constraints. Given a sequence of $k$ spatio-temporal measurements and an embedded path graph with travel time costs, the goal is to snap each measurement to a close-by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yannick Bosch , Sabine Storandt

Given a stream of food orders and available delivery vehicles, how should orders be assigned to vehicles so that the delivery time is minimized? Several decisions have to be made: (1) assignment of orders to vehicles, (2) grouping orders…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Manas Joshi , Arshdeep Singh , Sayan Ranu , Amitabha Bagchi , Priyank Karia , Puneet Kala

We propose a fast approximate algorithm for large graph matching. A new projected fixed-point method is defined and a new doubly stochastic projection is adopted to derive the algorithm. Previous graph matching algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Yao Lu , Kaizhu Huang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Integrating large language model (LLM) representations into multimodal recommendation has shown promise, yet a fundamental challenge remains largely overlooked: the semantic heterogeneity between generative LM representations and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuecheng Li , Hengwei Ju , Zeyu Song , Wei Yang , Chi Lu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Hypergraph matching has recently become a popular approach for solving correspondence problems in computer vision as it allows to integrate higher-order geometric information. Hypergraph matching can be formulated as a third-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Quynh Nguyen , Francesco Tudisco , Antoine Gautier , Matthias Hein