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Generating a set of high-quality correspondences or matches is one of the most critical steps in point cloud registration. This paper proposes a learning framework COTReg by jointly considering the pointwise and structural matchings to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Litao Yu , Jian Zhang , Mohammed Bennamoun

Optimal Transport (OT) distances are now routinely used as loss functions in ML tasks. Yet, computing OT distances between arbitrary (i.e. not necessarily discrete) probability distributions remains an open problem. This paper introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Arthur Mensch , Gabriel Peyré

Optimal Transport (OT) distances such as Wasserstein have been used in several areas such as GANs and domain adaptation. OT, however, is very sensitive to outliers (samples with large noise) in the data since in its objective function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yogesh Balaji , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

Many machine learning problems involve data supported on curved spaces such as spheres, rotation groups, hyperbolic spaces, and general Riemannian manifolds, where Euclidean geometry can distort distances, averages, and the resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Alessandro Micheli , Silvia Sapora , Anthea Monod , Samir Bhatt

We propose Mirror Descent Optimal Transport (MDOT), a novel method for solving discrete optimal transport (OT) problems with high precision, by unifying temperature annealing in entropic-regularized OT (EOT) with mirror descent techniques.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mete Kemertas , Allan D. Jepson , Amir-massoud Farahmand

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

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for learning minimal-displacement maps between distributions. The predominant approach involves a neural parametrization of the Monge formulation of OT, typically assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Athina Sotiropoulou , David Alvarez-Melis

Optimal transport (OT) has enjoyed great success in machine learning as a principled way to align datasets via a least-cost correspondence, driven in large part by the runtime efficiency of the Sinkhorn algorithm (Cuturi, 2013). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Peter Halmos , Julian Gold , Xinhao Liu , Benjamin J. Raphael

Reduced order models (ROMs) are widely used in scientific computing to tackle high-dimensional systems. However, traditional ROM methods may only partially capture the intrinsic geometric characteristics of the data. These characteristics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Moaad Khamlich , Federico Pichi , Gianluigi Rozza

Optimal transport (OT) aims to find a map $T$ that transports mass from one probability measure to another while minimizing a cost function. Recently, neural OT solvers have gained popularity in high dimensional biological applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Peter Chen , Yue Xie , Qingpeng Zhang

Transport systems on networks are crucial in various applications, but face a significant risk of being adversely affected by unforeseen circumstances such as disasters. The application of entropy-regularized optimal transport (OT) on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Yota Hashizume , Tomohiko Jimbo , Hirotaka Kaji , Kenji Kashima

Recently, linear regression models incorporating an optimal transport (OT) loss have been explored for applications such as supervised unmixing of spectra, music transcription, and mass spectrometry. However, these task-specific approaches…

Optimal transport (OT) provides effective tools for comparing and mapping probability measures. We propose to leverage the flexibility of neural networks to learn an approximate optimal transport map. More precisely, we present a new and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais

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

This article describes a set of methods for quickly computing the solution to the regularized optimal transport problem. It generalizes and improves upon the widely-used iterative Bregman projections algorithm (or Sinkhorn--Knopp…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Alexis Thibault , Lénaïc Chizat , Charles Dossal , Nicolas Papadakis

In machine learning, Optimal Transport (OT) theory is extensively utilized to compare probability distributions across various applications, such as graph data represented by node distributions and image data represented by pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jianming Huang , Xun Su , Zhongxi Fang , Hiroyuki Kasai

Real-world image super-resolution (SR) tasks often do not have paired datasets, which limits the application of supervised techniques. As a result, the tasks are usually approached by unpaired techniques based on Generative Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Milena Gazdieva , Petr Mokrov , Litu Rout , Alexander Korotin , Andrey Kravchenko , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev

Optimal Transport (OT) theory investigates the cost-minimizing transport map that moves a source distribution to a target distribution. Recently, several approaches have emerged for learning the optimal transport map for a given cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jaemoo Choi , Yongxin Chen , Jaewoong Choi

We investigate finding a map $g$ within a function class $G$ that minimises an Optimal Transport (OT) cost between a target measure $\nu$ and the image by $g$ of a source measure $\mu$. This is relevant when an OT map from $\mu$ to $\nu$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Eloi Tanguy , Agnès Desolneux , Julie Delon

Optimal Transport (OT) is a mathematical framework that first emerged in the eighteenth century and has led to a plethora of methods for answering many theoretical and applied questions. The last decade has been a witness to the remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Abdelwahed Khamis , Russell Tsuchida , Mohamed Tarek , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson