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Learning from point sets is an essential component in many computer vision and machine learning applications. Native, unordered, and permutation invariant set structure space is challenging to model, particularly for point set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Mohammad Shifat E Rabbi , Naqib Sad Pathan , Shiying Li , Yan Zhuang , Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat , Gustavo K Rohde

Computational optimal transport (OT) offers a principled framework for generative modeling. Neural OT methods, which use neural networks to learn an OT map (or potential) from data in an amortized way, can be evaluated out of sample after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alessandro Micheli , Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod , Samir Bhatt

Cross-domain alignment between two sets of entities (e.g., objects in an image, words in a sentence) is fundamental to both computer vision and natural language processing. Existing methods mainly focus on designing advanced attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Liqun Chen , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Linjie Li , Lawrence Carin , Jingjing Liu

Current LLM alignment techniques use pairwise human preferences at a sample level, and as such, they do not imply an alignment on the distributional level. We propose in this paper Alignment via Optimal Transport (AOT), a novel method for…

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is an imaging technique that allows three-dimensional visualization of macro-molecular assemblies under near-native conditions. Cryo-ET comes with a number of challenges, mainly low signal-to-noise and…

This work establishes a framework for solving inverse boundary problems with the geodesic based quadratic Wasserstein distance ($W_{2}$). A general form of the Fr\'echet gradient is systematically derived by optimal transportation (OT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

Comparing unpaired samples of a distribution or population taken at different points in time is a fundamental task in many application domains where measuring populations is destructive and cannot be done repeatedly on the same sample, such…

Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment are powerful frameworks for geometrically driven matching of probability distributions, yet their large-scale usage is hampered by high statistical and computational costs.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Tao Wang , Ziv Goldfeld

Laue tomography experiments retrieve the positions and orientations of crystal grains in a polycrystalline samples from diffraction patterns recorded at multiple viewing angles. The use of a broad wavelength spectrum beam can greatly reduce…

The automated analysis of flow cytometry measurements is an active research field. We introduce a new algorithm, referred to as CytOpT, using regularized optimal transport to directly estimate the different cell population proportions from…

Applications · Statistics 2022-07-01 Paul Freulon , Jérémie Bigot , Boris P. Hejblum

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem. In practice, recent approaches optimize a weak dual EOT objective depending on a single potential, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roman Dyachenko , Nikita Gushchin , Kirill Sokolov , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

The group synchronization problem involves estimating a collection of group elements from noisy measurements of their pairwise ratios. This task is a key component in many computational problems, including the molecular reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Noam Janco , Tamir Bendory

The optimal transport (OT) map offers the most economical way to transfer one probability measure distribution to another. Classical OT theory does not involve a discussion of preserving topological connections and orientations in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yuping Lv , Qi Zhao , Xuebin Chang , Wei Zeng

Motivated by the trade-off between noise-robustness and data-consistency for joint 3D map reconstruction and rotation estimation in single particle cryogenic-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), we propose ellipsoidal support lifting (ESL), a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Willem Diepeveen , Jan Lellmann , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables in situ visualization of macromolecular structures, where subtomogram analysis tasks such as classification, alignment, and averaging are critical for structural determination. However, effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runmin Jiang , Wanyue Feng , Yuntian Yang , Shriya Pingulkar , Hong Wang , Xi Xiao , Xiaoyu Cao , Genpei Zhang , Xiao Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Tianyang Wang , Yang Liu , Xingjian Li , Min Xu

Optimal transport (OT) serves as a natural framework for comparing probability measures, with applications in statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. Alas, statistical estimation and exact computation of the OT distances…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Tao Wang , Ziv Goldfeld

We propose Acc-Sinkhorn, a simple accelerated variant of Sinkhorn for entropy-regularized optimal transport (EOT). The method is derived from a bilevel optimization view: Sinkhorn row scaling solves the inner variable $u$ exactly and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Zeyi Xu , Long Chen

We present a functional calculus treatment of Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) between Gaussian measures on separable Hilbert spaces, providing a unified framework that handles infinite-dimensional degeneracy. By leveraging the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Ho Yun

The cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM) is increasingly popular these years. It helps to uncover the biological structures and functions of macromolecules. In this paper, we address image denoising problem in cryo-EM. Denoising the cryo-EM…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-26 Yin Xian , Hanlin Gu , Wei Wang , Xuhui Huang , Yuan Yao , Yang Wang , Jian-Feng Cai

Untargeted metabolomic profiling through liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) measures a vast array of metabolites within biospecimens, advancing drug development, disease diagnosis, and risk prediction. However, the low…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-27 Marie Breeur , George Stepaniants , Pekka Keski-Rahkonen , Philippe Rigollet , Vivian Viallon