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It can be shown that Stable Diffusion has a permutation-invariance property with respect to the rows of Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) embedding matrices. This inspired the novel observation that these embeddings can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nicholas Karris , Luke Durell , Javier Flores , Tegan Emerson

Optimal Transport (OT) theory investigates the cost-minimizing transport map that moves a source distribution to a target distribution. Recently, several approaches have emerged for learning the optimal transport map for a given cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jaemoo Choi , Yongxin Chen , Jaewoong Choi

We study Flow Matching in a semi-discrete setting where a Gaussian source is transported toward a discrete target supported on finitely many points. This semi-discrete regime is the theoretical setting behind the use of Flow Matching for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Emile Pierret , Johannes Hertrich , Samuel Hurault , Julie Delon

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

We propose a technique for interpolating between probability distributions on discrete surfaces, based on the theory of optimal transport. Unlike previous attempts that use linear programming, our method is based on a dynamical formulation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Hugo Lavenant , Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Justin Solomon

Current state-of-the-art discrete optimization methods struggle behind when it comes to challenging contrast-enhancing discrete energies (i.e., favoring different labels for neighboring variables). This work suggests a multiscale approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-05 Shai Bagon , Meirav Galun

This paper deals with the large-scale behaviour of dynamical optimal transport on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic graphs with general lower semicontinuous and convex energy densities. Our main contribution is a homogenisation result that describes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

Solving large scale entropic optimal transport problems with the Sinkhorn algorithm remains challenging, and domain decomposition has been shown to be an efficient strategy for problems on large grids. Unbalanced optimal transport is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Ismael Medina , The Sang Nguyen , Bernhard Schmitzer

In this paper, we present the derivation of a multicontinuum model for the coupled flow and transport equations by applying multicontinuum homogenization. We perform the multicontinuum expansion for both flow and transport solutions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Dmitry Ammosov , W. T. Leung , Buzheng Shan , Jian Huang

We propose a new embedding method for a single vector and for a pair of vectors. This embedding method enables: a) efficient classification and regression of functions of single vectors; b) efficient approximation of distance functions; and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Ofir Pele , Yakir Ben-Aliz

Spatial coupling has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm to construct graphical models that work well under low-complexity message-passing algorithms. Although much progress has been made on the analysis of spatially coupled models…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Rafah El-Khatib , Nicolas Macris , Ruediger Urbanke

We derive the breakdown point for solutions of semi-discrete optimal transport problems, which characterizes the robustness of the multivariate quantiles based on optimal transport proposed in \cite{GS}. We do so under very mild…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Davy Paindaveine , Riccardo Passeggeri

We present a forward semi-Lagrangian numerical method for systems of transport equations able to advect smooth and discontinuous fields with high-order accuracy. The numerical scheme is composed of an integration of the transport equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Julián Becerra-Sagredo , Carlos Málaga , Francisco Mandujano

Topology diagrams are widely seen in power system applications, but their automatic generation is often easier said than done. When facing power transmission systems with strongly-meshed structures, existing approaches can hardly produce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Jingyu Wang , Jinfu Chen , Dongyuan Shi , Xianzhong Duan

Persistence diagrams (PDs) are now routinely used to summarize the underlying topology of complex data. Despite several appealing properties, incorporating PDs in learning pipelines can be challenging because their natural geometry is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Théo Lacombe , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot

The aim of this paper is to recover displacement interpolations of probability measures, in the sense of the Optimal Transport theory, by semiclassical measures associated with solutions of Schr\"odinger equations defined on the flat torus.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 L. Zanelli

Manifold learning offers nonlinear dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional datasets. In this paper, we bring geometry processing to bear on manifold learning by introducing a new approach based on metric connection for generating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Max Budninskiy , Glorian Yin , Leman Feng , Yiying Tong , Mathieu Desbrun

Although shape correspondence is a central problem in geometry processing, most methods for this task apply only to two-dimensional surfaces. The neglected task of volumetric correspondence--a natural extension relevant to shapes extracted…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 S. Mazdak Abulnaga , Oded Stein , Polina Golland , Justin Solomon

In this paper, we consider the optimal coordination of automated vehicles at intersections under fixed crossing orders. We formulate the problem using direct optimal control and exploit the structure to construct a semi-distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Robert Hult , Mario Zanon , Sebastien Gros , Paolo Falcone