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The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Optimal transport (OT) formalizes the problem of finding an optimal coupling between probability measures given a cost matrix. The inverse problem of inferring the cost given a coupling is Inverse Optimal Transport (IOT). IOT is less well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Wei-Ting Chiu , Pei Wang , Patrick Shafto

Questions of `how best to acquire data' are essential to modeling and prediction in the natural and social sciences, engineering applications, and beyond. Optimal experimental design (OED) formalizes these questions and creates…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-01 Xun Huan , Jayanth Jagalur , Youssef Marzouk

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

Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT) has emerged as an important extension of the highly successful Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) paradigm. The OMT problem requires solving an SMT problem with the restriction that the solution must be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nestan Tsiskaridze , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli

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

We introduce a formulation of optimal transport problem for distributions on function spaces, where the stochastic map between functional domains can be partially represented in terms of an (infinite-dimensional) Hilbert-Schmidt operator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jiacheng Zhu , Aritra Guha , Dat Do , Mengdi Xu , XuanLong Nguyen , Ding Zhao

Bi-causal optimal transport (OT) is a natural framework for comparing and coupling stochastic processes under nonanticipative information constraints, with important applications in robust finance, sequential uncertainty quantification, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Haoyang Cao , Jesse Hoekstra , Renyuan Xu , Yumin Xu , Ruixun Zhang

This article introduces a new notion of optimal transport (OT) between tensor fields, which are measures whose values are positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices. This "quantum" formulation of OT (Q-OT) corresponds to a relaxed version of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gabriel Peyré , Lenaïc Chizat , François-Xavier Vialard , Justin Solomon

Partial Optimal Transport (POT) has recently emerged as a central tool in various Machine Learning (ML) applications. It lifts the stringent assumption of the conventional Optimal Transport (OT) that input measures are of equal masses,…

A primal-dual accelerated stochastic gradient descent with variance reduction algorithm (PDASGD) is proposed to solve linear-constrained optimization problems. PDASGD could be applied to solve the discrete optimal transport (OT) problem and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Yiling Xie , Yiling Luo , Xiaoming Huo

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

Probabilistic control design is founded on the principle that a rational agent attempts to match modelled with an arbitrary desired closed-loop system trajectory density. The framework was originally proposed as a tractable alternative to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Tom Lefebvre

This paper concerns the application of techniques from optimal transport (OT) to mean field control, in which the probability measures of interest in OT correspond to empirical distributions associated with a large collection of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Thomas Le Corre , Ana Busic , Sean Meyn

Inspired by the matching of supply to demand in logistical problems, the optimal transport (or Monge--Kantorovich) problem involves the matching of probability distributions defined over a geometric domain such as a surface or manifold. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Justin Solomon

The recently developed bag-of-paths (BoP) framework consists in setting a Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution on all feasible paths of a graph. This probability distribution favors short paths over long ones, with a free parameter (the temperature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimäki , Marco Saerens

We propose a numerical algorithm for the computation of multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT) problems involving general probability measures that are not necessarily discrete. By developing a relaxation scheme in which marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

In this paper, we develop a distributionally robust chance-constrained formulation of the Optimal Power Flow problem (OPF) whereby the system operator can leverage contextual information. For this purpose, we exploit an ambiguity set based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Adrián Esteban-Pérez , Juan M. Morales

This paper proposes a quasi-optimal power flow (OPF) algorithm for flexible DC traction power systems (TPSs). Near-optimal solutions can be solved with high computational efficiency by the proposed quasi-OPF. Unlike conventional OPF…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Zhanhe Li , Xiaoqian Li , Yingdong Wei , Chao Lu , Xuelian Bai

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