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Learning permutations is fundamental to sorting, ranking, and matching, but existing differentiable methods based on entropy-regularized Sinkhorn produce a single softened solution and collapse under ambiguity. We present PermFlow, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yimeng Min , Carla P. Gomes

We explore the use of deep learning and deep reinforcement learning for optimization problems in transportation. Many transportation system analysis tasks are formulated as an optimization problem - such as optimal control problems in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Laura Schultz , Vadim Sokolov

Deep learning has revolutionized many industries by enabling models to automatically learn complex patterns from raw data, reducing dependence on manual feature engineering. However, deep learning algorithms are sensitive to input data, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mert Sehri , Zehui Hua , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Patrick Dumond

In this work we propose a batch version of the Greenkhorn algorithm for multimarginal regularized optimal transport problems. Our framework is general enough to cover, as particular cases, some existing algorithms like Sinkhorn and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 Vladimir Kostic , Saverio Salzo , Massimilano Pontil

Self-supervised learning has revolutionized representation learning by eliminating the need for labeled data. Contrastive learning methods, such as SimCLR, maximize the agreement between augmented views of an image but lack explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 M. Hadi Sepanj , Paul Fiegth

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Xun Tang , Holakou Rahmanian , Michael Shavlovsky , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

This paper studies a deep learning approach for binary assignment problems in wireless networks, which identifies binary variables for permutation matrices. This poses challenges in designing a structure of a neural network and its training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Minseok Kim , Hoon Lee , Hongju Lee , Inkyu Lee

The loss landscapes of deep neural networks are not well understood due to their high nonconvexity. Empirically, the local minima of these loss functions can be connected by a learned curve in model space, along which the loss remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 N. Joseph Tatro , Pin-Yu Chen , Payel Das , Igor Melnyk , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rongjie Lai

We introduce Deep Set Linearized Optimal Transport, an algorithm designed for the efficient simultaneous embedding of point clouds into an $L^2-$space. This embedding preserves specific low-dimensional structures within the Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Scott Mahan , Caroline Moosmüller , Alexander Cloninger

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

We introduce a new method for speeding up the inference of deep neural networks. It is somewhat inspired by the reduced-order modeling techniques for dynamical systems.The cornerstone of the proposed method is the maximum volume algorithm.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Julia Gusak , Talgat Daulbaev , Evgeny Ponomarev , Andrzej Cichocki , Ivan Oseledets

The traveling salesman problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem with strong exact algorithms. However, as problems scale up, these exact algorithms fail to provide a solution in a reasonable time. To resolve this, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yong Liang Goh , Wee Sun Lee , Xavier Bresson , Thomas Laurent , Nicholas Lim

We consider the fundamental problem of sampling the optimal transport coupling between given source and target distributions. In certain cases, the optimal transport plan takes the form of a one-to-one mapping from the source support to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Tyler Maunu , Paul Hand

In the context of an efficient network traffic engineering process where the network continuously measures a new traffic matrix and updates the set of paths in the network, an automated process is required to quickly and efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Lixin Gao , Don Towsley

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice, but suffered from prolonged acquisition time. Although deep learning methods have been proposed to accelerate acquisition and demonstrate promising performance, they rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Hao Zhang , Qi Wang , Jian Sun , Zhijie Wen , Jun Shi , Shihui Ying

We introduce the value iteration network (VIN): a fully differentiable neural network with a `planning module' embedded within. VINs can learn to plan, and are suitable for predicting outcomes that involve planning-based reasoning, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Aviv Tamar , Yi Wu , Garrett Thomas , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

Parameter-efficient tuning has become a trend in transferring large-scale foundation models to downstream applications. Existing methods typically embed some light-weight tuners into the backbone, where both the design and the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zeyinzi Jiang , Chaojie Mao , Ziyuan Huang , Ao Ma , Yiliang Lv , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou

In this paper we design and evaluate a Deep-Reinforcement Learning agent that optimizes routing. Our agent adapts automatically to current traffic conditions and proposes tailored configurations that attempt to minimize the network delay.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Giorgio Stampa , Marta Arias , David Sanchez-Charles , Victor Muntes-Mulero , Albert Cabellos

We study distributionally robust optimization with Sinkhorn distance -- a variant of Wasserstein distance based on entropic regularization. We derive a convex programming dual reformulation for general nominal distributions, transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie