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Optimal transport (OT) theory can be informally described using the words of the French mathematician Gaspard Monge (1746-1818): A worker with a shovel in hand has to move a large pile of sand lying on a construction site. The goal of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-20 Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

Learning to align multiple datasets is an important problem with many applications, and it is especially useful when we need to integrate multiple experiments or correct for confounding. Optimal transport (OT) is a principled approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ruishan Liu , Akshay Balsubramani , James Zou

Computing optimal transport (OT) between measures in high dimensions is doomed by the curse of dimensionality. A popular approach to avoid this curse is to project input measures on lower-dimensional subspaces (1D lines in the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

The optimal transport (OT) map is a geometry-driven transformation between high-dimensional probability distributions which underpins a wide range of tasks in statistics, applied probability, and machine learning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Sloan Nietert , Ziv Goldfeld

Optimal transport (OT) theory underlies many emerging machine learning (ML) methods nowadays solving a wide range of tasks such as generative modeling, transfer learning and information retrieval. These latter works, however, usually build…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Quang Huy Tran , Hicham Janati , Ievgen Redko , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

We investigate the problem of sampling from posterior distributions with intractable normalizing constants in Bayesian inference. Our solution is a new generative modeling approach based on optimal transport (OT) that learns a deterministic…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-03 Ke Li , Wei Han , Yuexi Wang , Yun Yang

Clustering is a fundamental task in the computer vision and machine learning community. Although various methods have been proposed, the performance of existing approaches drops dramatically when handling incomplete high-dimensional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Mingjie Luo , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , Wenxuan Tu , Yi Zhang , Xifeng Guo , Sihang Zhou , En Zhu

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

Optimal Transport (OT) problems are a cornerstone of many applications, but solving them is computationally expensive. To address this problem, we propose UNOT (Universal Neural Optimal Transport), a novel framework capable of accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jonathan Geuter , Gregor Kornhardt , Ingimar Tomasson , Vaios Laschos

While optimal transport (OT) enforces a rigid constraint by requiring two measures to be matched exactly, partial optimal transport relaxes this requirement by allowing mass to remain unmatched through a global budget, scalar rebate, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Salil Parth Tripathi , Bertrand Chapron , Fabrice Collard , Nicolas Courty , Ronan Fablet

Quantile-Quantile (Q-Q) plots are widely used for assessing the distributional similarity between two datasets. Traditionally, Q-Q plots are constructed for univariate distributions, making them less effective in capturing complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-01 Sibsankar Singha , Marie Kratz , Sreekar Vadlamani

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

Recently, the statistical properties of empirical Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) have attracted great interest, as this quantity has been shown to be useful for complex data analysis, among other reasons due to its computational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Santiago Arenas-Velilla , Axel Munk , Luis-Alberto Rodríguez

Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) aligns metric measure spaces by matching their within-domain relational structures, but large-scale GWOT remains challenging because its objective is nonconvex and projection onto the transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ling Liang , Lei Yang

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

Cross-modal matching, a fundamental task in bridging vision and language, has recently garnered substantial research interest. Despite the development of numerous methods aimed at quantifying the semantic relatedness between image-text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengxin Pan , Haishuai Wang , Fangyu Wu , Bailing Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Hongyang Chen

Optimal Transport (OT) has fueled machine learning (ML) across many domains. When paired data measurements $(\boldsymbol{\mu}, \boldsymbol{\nu})$ are coupled to covariates, a challenging conditional distribution learning setting arises.…

Alignment plays a fundamental role in many machine learning problems, such as multi-network analysis, multimodal learning, and point cloud registration. Recent works increasingly leverage optimal transport (OT) for distributional alignment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qi Yu , Ruizhong Qiu , Zhichen Zeng , My T. Thai , Huan Liu , Hanghang Tong

Optimal transport is a machine learning problem with applications including distribution comparison, feature selection, and generative adversarial networks. In this paper, we propose feature-robust optimal transport (FROT) for…

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang