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Optimal Transport (OT) is being widely used in various fields such as machine learning and computer vision, as it is a powerful tool for measuring the similarity between probability distributions and histograms. In previous studies, OT has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Yasunori Akagi , Yusuke Tanaka , Tomoharu Iwata , Takeshi Kurashima , Hiroyuki Toda

The future motion of traffic participants is inherently uncertain. To plan safely, therefore, an autonomous agent must take into account multiple possible trajectory outcomes and prioritize them. Recently, this problem has been addressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Christoph Schöller , Alois Knoll

Several fields in science, from genomics to neuroimaging, require monitoring populations (measures) that evolve with time. These complex datasets, describing dynamics with both time and spatial components, pose new challenges for data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-12 Hicham Janati , Marco Cuturi , Alexandre Gramfort

Predicting how distributions over discrete variables vary over time is a common task in time series forecasting. But whereas most approaches focus on merely predicting the distribution at subsequent time steps, a crucial piece of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mukul Bhutani , J. Zico Kolter

The capability of traffic-information systems to sense the movement of millions of users and offer trip plans through mobile phones has enabled a new way of optimizing city traffic dynamics, turning transportation big data into insights and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Fan Yang , Alina Vereshchaka , Bruno Lepri , Wen Dong

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

In a communication network, point-to-point traffic volumes over time are critical for designing protocols that route information efficiently and for maintaining security, whether at the scale of an internet service provider or within a…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-12-04 Edoardo M. Airoldi , Alexander W. Blocker

We present a flow-based approach to the optimal transport (OT) problem between two continuous distributions $\pi_0,\pi_1$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, of minimizing a transport cost $\mathbb{E}[c(X_1-X_0)]$ in the set of couplings $(X_0,X_1)$ whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-30 Qiang Liu

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) focuses on modeling the relationship of detected objects among consecutive frames and merge them into different trajectories. MOT remains a challenging task as noisy and confusing detection results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Tao Wang , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Zenghui Zhang , Qian Xu , Xia Jia

Standard representational similarity methods align each layer of a network to its best match in another independently, producing asymmetric results, lacking a global alignment score, and struggling with networks of different depths. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Shaan Shah , Meenakshi Khosla

Modeling and simulating movement of vehicles in established transportation infrastructures, especially in large urban road networks is an important task. It helps with understanding and handling traffic problems, optimizing traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Renátó Besenczi , Norbert Bátfai , Péter Jeszenszky , Roland Major , Fanny Monori , Márton Ispány

Finding a transformation between two unknown probability distributions from finite samples is crucial for modeling complex data distributions and performing tasks such as sample generation, domain adaptation and statistical inference. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhe Xiong , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xiaoqun Zhang

We present a generative model of human mobility in which trajectories arise as realizations of a prescribed, time-dependent Markov dynamics defined on a spatial interaction network. The model constructs a hierarchical routing structure with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-12 David A. Meyer , Asif Shakeel

Infinite population models are important tools for studying population dynamics of evolutionary algorithms. They describe how the distributions of populations change between consecutive generations. In general, infinite population models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Bo Song , Victor O. K. Li

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) extends classical optimal transport to measures with different total masses, but statistical guarantees for Monge-type estimation remain limited. We study unbalanced transport with quadratic cost and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Donlapark Ponnoprat , Noboru Isobe , Masaaki Imaizumi

Being able to identify service slowdowns is crucial to many operational problems. We study how to use observational congestion data to learn service slowdown in a multi-server system that uses adaptive congestion control mechanisms. We show…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-18 Xu Kuang , Gal Mendelson

We investigate the optimal transport (OT) problem over networks, wherein supply and demand are conceptualized as temporal marginals governing departure rates of particles from source nodes and arrival rates at sink nodes. This setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Anqi Dong , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

We study the estimation of optimal transport (OT) maps between an arbitrary source probability measure and a log-concave target probability measure. Our contributions are twofold. First, we propose a new evolution equation in the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Théo Dumont , Théo Lacombe , François-Xavier Vialard

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

Optimal Transport (OT) is a resource allocation problem with applications in biology, data science, economics and statistics, among others. In some of the applications, practitioners have access to samples which approximate the continuous…