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Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon

In this paper, we prove that the time supremum of the Wasserstein distance between the time-marginals of a uniformly elliptic multidimensional diffusion with coefficients bounded together with their derivatives up to the order $2$ in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Aurélien Alfonsi , Benjamin Jourdain , Arturo Kohatsu-Higa

We study a nonlinear multimarginal optimal transport problem arising in risk management, where the objective is to maximize a spectral risk measure of the pushforward of a coupling by a cost function. Although this problem is inherently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Adrien Cances , Quentin Mérigot , Luca Nenna

This paper defines a new transport metric over the space of non-negative measures. This metric interpolates between the quadratic Wasserstein and the Fisher-Rao metrics and generalizes optimal transport to measures with different masses. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Lenaic Chizat , Bernhard Schmitzer , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

We introduce a novel optimal transport framework for probabilistic circuits (PCs). While it has been shown recently that divergences between distributions represented as certain classes of PCs can be computed tractably, to the best of our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Adrian Ciotinga , YooJung Choi

Several problems in machine learning are naturally expressed as the design and analysis of time-evolving probability distributions. This includes sampling via diffusion methods, optimizing the weights of neural networks, and analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Gabriel Peyré

We consider the problem of solving the optimal transport problem between two empirical distributions with missing values. Our main assumption is that the data is missing completely at random (MCAR), but we allow for heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-26 Linus Bleistein , Aurélien Bellet , Julie Josse

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

We investigate a matrix dynamical system related to optimal mass transport in the linear category, namely, the problem of finding an optimal invertible matrix by which two covariance matrices are congruent. We first review the differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Erik Jansson , Klas Modin

We examine the infinite-dimensional optimization problem of finding a decomposition of a probability measure into K probability sub-measures to minimize specific loss functions inspired by applications in clustering and user grouping. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Jiangze Han , Christopher Thomas Ryan , Xin T. Tong

Uncertainty propagation and filtering can be interpreted as gradient flows with respect to suitable metrics in the infinite dimensional manifold of probability density functions. Such a viewpoint has been put forth in recent literature, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Abhishek Halder , Tryphon T. Georgiou

After presenting an overview about variational problems on probability measures for functionals involving transport costs and extra terms encouraging or discouraging concentration, we look for optimality conditions, regularity properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Filippo Santambrogio

Joint distribution matching (JDM) problem, which aims to learn bidirectional mappings to match joint distributions of two domains, occurs in many machine learning and computer vision applications. This problem, however, is very difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 JieZhang Cao , Langyuan Mo , Qing Du , Yong Guo , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

The paper considers existence results of solution for a linear coupled system of Boltzmann transport equations and related inverse problem. The system models the evolution of three species of particles, photons, electrons and positrons.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Jouko Tervo

The notion of entropy-regularized optimal transport, also known as Sinkhorn divergence, has recently gained popularity in machine learning and statistics, as it makes feasible the use of smoothed optimal transportation distances for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jérémie Bigot , Elsa Cazelles , Nicolas Papadakis

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

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

We introduce dynamic and static formulations that formally extend unbalanced optimal transport from the space of positive densities to the space of Riemannian metrics. The first construction is based on a dynamic variational formulation in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Martin Bauer , Peter W. Michor , François-Xavier Vialard

We present a short overview on the strongest variational formulation for gradient flows of geodesically $\lambda$-convex functionals in metric spaces, with applications to diffusion equations in Wasserstein spaces of probability measures.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Sara Daneri , Giuseppe Savaré

By building upon the recent theory that established the connection between implicit generative modeling (IGM) and optimal transport, in this study, we propose a novel parameter-free algorithm for learning the underlying distributions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Antoine Liutkus , Umut Şimşekli , Szymon Majewski , Alain Durmus , Fabian-Robert Stöter