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While the optimal transport (OT) problem was originally formulated as a linear program, the addition of entropic regularization has proven beneficial both computationally and statistically, for many applications. The Sinkhorn fixed-point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 James Thornton , Marco Cuturi

In many applications of optimal transport (OT), the object of primary interest is the optimal transport map. This map rearranges mass from one probability distribution to another in the most efficient way possible by minimizing a specified…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Tudor Manole , Larry Wasserman

Optimal Transport (OT) is being widely used in various fields such as machine learning and computer vision, as it is a powerful tool for measuring the similarity between probability distributions and histograms. In previous studies, OT has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Yasunori Akagi , Yusuke Tanaka , Tomoharu Iwata , Takeshi Kurashima , Hiroyuki Toda

Optimal Transport (OT) problem aims to find a transport plan that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. OT theory has been widely utilized in generative modeling. In the beginning, OT distance has been used as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable progress in generative modeling. However, the mismatch between the forward terminal distribution and reverse initial distribution introduces prior error, leading to deviations of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhanpeng Wang , Shenghao Li , Jiameng Che , Chen Wang , Shangling Jui , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

In a landscape of high-performance distributed ML systems, JAX has emerged as a framework of choice. However, JAX's modular design philosophy leaves it without a standardized checkpointing solution. In this paper, we introduce Orbax, a…

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

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

The ability to compare two degenerate probability distributions (i.e. two probability distributions supported on two distinct low-dimensional manifolds living in a much higher-dimensional space) is a crucial problem arising in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

We present a novel framework based on optimal transport for the challenging problem of comparing graphs. Specifically, we exploit the probabilistic distribution of smooth graph signals defined with respect to the graph topology. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille EL Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification (FS-RSSC) presents the challenge of classifying remote sensing images with limited labeled samples. Existing methods typically emphasize single-modal feature learning, neglecting the potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhong Ji , Ci Liu , Jingren Liu , Chen Tang , Yanwei Pang , Xuelong Li

Multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) is a generalization of optimal transport to multiple marginals. Optimal transport has evolved into an important tool in many machine learning applications, and its multi-marginal extension opens up for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

Optimal transport (OT) has enjoyed great success in machine learning as a principled way to align datasets via a least-cost correspondence, driven in large part by the runtime efficiency of the Sinkhorn algorithm (Cuturi, 2013). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Peter Halmos , Julian Gold , Xinhao Liu , Benjamin J. Raphael

Optimal Transport (OT) offers a powerful framework for finding correspondences between distributions and addressing matching and alignment problems in various areas of computer vision, including shape analysis, image generation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xinran Liu , Elaheh Akbari , Rocio Diaz Martin , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Soheil Kolouri

Optimal transport (OT) has become a widely used tool in the machine learning field to measure the discrepancy between probability distributions. For instance, OT is a popular loss function that quantifies the discrepancy between an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Shintaro Nakamura , Han Bao , Masashi Sugiyama

We propose integrating optimal transport (OT) into operator learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. Classical geometric learning methods typically represent domains as meshes, graphs, or point clouds. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xinyi Li , Zongyi Li , Nikola Kovachki , Anima Anandkumar

Optimal transport (OT) plays an essential role in various areas like machine learning and deep learning. However, computing discrete optimal transport plan for large scale problems with adequate accuracy and efficiency is still highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Dongsheng An , Na Lei , Xianfeng Gu

Recent studies have proposed different methods to improve multilingual word representations in contextualized settings including techniques that align between source and target embedding spaces. For contextualized embeddings, alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sawsan Alqahtani , Garima Lalwani , Yi Zhang , Salvatore Romeo , Saab Mansour

We introduce a new class of convex-regularized Optimal Transport losses, which generalizes the classical Entropy-regularization of Optimal Transport and Sinkhorn divergences, and propose a generalized Sinkhorn algorithm. Our framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Simone Di Marino , Augusto Gerolin
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