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In this paper we study the local linearization of the Hellinger--Kantorovich distance via its Riemannian structure. We give explicit expressions for the logarithmic and exponential map and identify a suitable notion of a Riemannian inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Tianji Cai , Junyi Cheng , Bernhard Schmitzer , Matthew Thorpe

We introduce an optimal transport-based model for learning a metric tensor from cross-sectional samples of evolving probability measures on a common Riemannian manifold. We neurally parametrize the metric as a spatially-varying matrix field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Christopher Scarvelis , Justin Solomon

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool for measuring the distance between two defined probability distributions. In this paper, we develop a new manifold named the coupling matrix manifold (CMM), where each point on CMM can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Dai Shi , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , S. T. Boris Choy , Zhiyong Wang

In this paper we extend recent developments in computational optimal transport to the setting of Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we show how to learn optimal transport maps from samples that relate probability distributions defined on…

We prove quantitative bounds on the stability of optimal transport maps and Kantorovich potentials from a fixed source measure $\rho$ under variations of the target measure $\mu$, when the cost function is the squared Riemannian distance on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jun Kitagawa , Cyril Letrouit , Quentin Mérigot

Optimal transport (OT) has recently found widespread interest in machine learning. It allows to define novel distances between probability measures, which have shown promise in several applications. In this work, we discuss how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Bamdev Mishra , N T V Satyadev , Hiroyuki Kasai , Pratik Jawanpuria

Describing shapes by suitable measures in object segmentation, as proposed in [24], allows to combine the advantages of the representations as parametrized contours and indicator functions. The pseudo-Riemannian structure of optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr

Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher

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

Which is the best metric for the space of collider events? Motivated by the success of the Energy Mover's Distance in characterizing collider events, we explore the larger space of unbalanced optimal transport distances, of which the Energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Tianji Cai , Junyi Cheng , Katy Craig , Nathaniel Craig

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

We develop a full theory for the new class of Optimal Entropy-Transport problems between nonnegative and finite Radon measures in general topological spaces. They arise quite naturally by relaxing the marginal constraints typical of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

Optimal Transport has received much attention in Machine Learning as it allows to compare probability distributions by exploiting the geometry of the underlying space. However, in its original formulation, solving this problem suffers from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Clément Bonet

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

Optimal Transport is a theory that allows to define geometrical notions of distance between probability distributions and to find correspondences, relationships, between sets of points. Many machine learning applications are derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Titouan Vayer

The ability to measure similarity between documents enables intelligent summarization and analysis of large corpora. Past distances between documents suffer from either an inability to incorporate semantic similarities between words or from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Mikhail Yurochkin , Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Farzaneh Mirzazadeh , Justin Solomon

We study the problem of estimating, in the sense of optimal transport metrics, a measure which is assumed supported on a manifold embedded in a Hilbert space. By establishing a precise connection between optimal transport metrics, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Guillermo D. Canas , Lorenzo Rosasco

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

The Sinkhorn algorithm is a numerical method for the solution of optimal transport problems. Here, I give a brief survey of this algorithm, with a strong emphasis on its geometric origin: it is natural to view it as a discretization, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Klas Modin

We show that the Hellinger-Kantorovich distance can be expressed as the metric infimal convolution of the Hellinger and the Wasserstein distances, as conjectured by Liero, Mielke, and Savar\'e. To prove it, we study with the tools of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Nicolò De Ponti , Giacomo Enrico Sodini , Luca Tamanini
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