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This paper addresses the practical challenge in Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) where the underlying ground cost function is typically latent and unobserved. Rather than assuming a fixed geometric cost, we adopt a data-driven approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Antoine Debouchage , Xiaozhen Wang , Zhenjie Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

We develop a fast and reliable method for solving large-scale optimal transport (OT) problems at an unprecedented combination of speed and accuracy. Built on the celebrated Douglas-Rachford splitting technique, our method tackles the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Vien V. Mai , Jacob Lindbäck , Mikael Johansson

Optimal transport (OT) distances are finding evermore applications in machine learning and computer vision, but their wide spread use in larger-scale problems is impeded by their high computational cost. In this work we develop a family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Brahim Khalil Abid , Robert M. Gower

Optimal transport (OT) and unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) are central in many machine learning, statistics and engineering applications. 1D OT is easily solved, with complexity O(n log n), but no efficient algorithm was known for 1D…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Gabriel Gouvine

We consider the problem of optimal transportation with general cost between a empirical measure and a general target probability on R d , with d $\ge$ 1. We extend results in [19] and prove asymptotic stability of both optimal transport…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

A prominent model for transportation networks is branched transport, which seeks the optimal transportation scheme to move material from a given initial to a final distribution. The cost of the scheme encodes a higher transport efficiency…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Alessio Brancolini , Benedikt Wirth

Classical optimization is a cornerstone of the success of variational quantum algorithms, which often require determining the derivatives of the cost function relative to variational parameters. The computation of the cost function and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Muhammad Umer , Eleftherios Mastorakis , Dimitris G. Angelakis

Optimal transportation theory is an area of mathematics with real-world applications in fields ranging from economics to optimal control to machine learning. We propose a new algorithm for solving discrete transport (network flow) problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-03 J. D. Walsh , Luca Dieci

Optimal mass transport is described by an approximation of transport cost via semi-discrete costs. The notions of optimal partition and optimal strong partition are given as well. We also suggest an algorithm for computation of Optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Gershon Wolansky

Optimal transport (OT) theory focuses, among all maps $T:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ that can morph a probability measure onto another, on those that are the ``thriftiest'', i.e. such that the averaged cost $c(x, T(x))$ between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Marco Cuturi , Michal Klein , Pierre Ablin

In this note, we generalize the classical optimal partial transport (OPT) problem by modifying the mass destruction/creation term to function-based terms, introducing what we term ``generalized optimal partial transport'' problems. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Yikun Bai

We consider the problem of finding an optimal transport plan between an absolutely continuous measure $\mu$ on $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a finitely supported measure $\nu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the transport cost is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Valentin Hartmann , Dominic Schuhmacher

In this work, we present an approach to learn cost maps for driving in complex urban environments from a very large number of demonstrations of driving behaviour by human experts. The learned cost maps are constructed directly from raw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Markus Wulfmeier , Dominic Zeng Wang , Ingmar Posner

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach

Efficient algorithms for solving optimal transport problems are important for measuring and optimizing distances between functions. In the $L^2$ semi-discrete context, this problem consists of finding a map from a continuous density…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Philip Claude Caplan

We study the use of amortized optimization to predict optimal transport (OT) maps from the input measures, which we call Meta OT. This helps repeatedly solve similar OT problems between different measures by leveraging the knowledge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Brandon Amos , Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Ievgen Redko

Missing data is a crucial issue when applying machine learning algorithms to real-world datasets. Starting from the simple assumption that two batches extracted randomly from the same dataset should share the same distribution, we leverage…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-02 Boris Muzellec , Julie Josse , Claire Boyer , 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

This paper considers the decentralized (discrete) optimal transport (D-OT) problem. In this setting, a network of agents seeks to design a transportation plan jointly, where the cost function is the sum of privately held costs for each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Ivan Lau , Shiqian Ma , César A. Uribe

Using the growing volumes of vehicle trajectory data, it becomes increasingly possible to capture time-varying and uncertain travel costs in a road network, including travel time and fuel consumption. The current paradigm represents a road…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Dai , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen