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We establish the uniform in time stability, w.r.t. the marginals, of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure, also known as Sinkhorn algorithm, used to solve entropy-regularised Optimal Transport problems. Our result is quantitative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 George Deligiannidis , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

We present several new complexity results for the entropic regularized algorithms that approximately solve the optimal transport (OT) problem between two discrete probability measures with at most $n$ atoms. First, we improve the complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Tianyi Lin , Nhat Ho , Michael I. Jordan

The Sinkhorn algorithm has emerged as a powerful tool for solving optimal transport problems, finding applications in various domains such as machine learning, image processing, and computational biology. Despite its widespread use, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Jose Rafael Espinosa Mena

Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT), also referred to as the Schr\"odinger problem, seeks to find a random processes with prescribed initial/final marginals and with minimal relative entropy with respect to a reference measure. The relative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Marc Hoffmann , Grégoire Loeper , François-Xavier Vialard

Several recent applications of optimal transport (OT) theory to machine learning have relied on regularization, notably entropy and the Sinkhorn algorithm. Because matrix-vector products are pervasive in the Sinkhorn algorithm, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Meyer Scetbon , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

In compact settings, the convergence rate of the empirical optimal transport cost to its population value is well understood for a wide class of spaces and cost functions. In unbounded settings, however, hitherto available results require…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Thomas Staudt , Shayan Hundrieser

By adding entropic regularization, multi-marginal optimal transport problems can be transformed into tensor scaling problems, which can be solved numerically using the multi-marginal Sinkhorn algorithm. The main computational bottleneck of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Christoph Strössner , Daniel Kressner

The purpose of this work is to develop a framework to calibrate signed datasets so as to be consistent with specified marginals by suitably extending the Schr\"odinger-Fortet-Sinkhorn paradigm. Specifically, we seek to revise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-24 Anqi Dong , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

We consider regularised quadratic optimal transport with subquadratic polynomial or entropic regularisation. In both cases, we prove interior Lipschitz-estimates on a transport-like map and interior gradient Lipschitz-estimates on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Rishabh S. Gvalani , Lukas Koch

Inverse optimal transport (OT) refers to the problem of learning the cost function for OT from observed transport plan or its samples. In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex optimization formulation of the inverse OT problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaojun Ma , Haodong Sun , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

We develop a computationally tractable method for estimating the optimal map between two distributions over $\mathbb{R}^d$ with rigorous finite-sample guarantees. Leveraging an entropic version of Brenier's theorem, we show that our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

We develop a new methodology for model-based clustering. Optimizing the log-likelihood provides a principled statistical framework for clustering, with solutions found via the EM algorithm. However, because the log-likelihood is nonconvex,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-06 Gonzalo Mena

We consider a class of stochastic optimal transport, SOT for short, with given two endpoint marginals in the case where a cost function exhibits at most quadratic growth. We first study the upper and lower estimates, the short--time…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Toshio Mikami

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj

In the field of optimal transport, two prominent subfields face each other: (i) unregularized optimal transport, "\`a-la-Kantorovich", which leads to extremely sparse plans but with algorithms that scale poorly, and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ehsan Amid , Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock , Manfred K. Warmuth

In this work we propose a batch version of the Greenkhorn algorithm for multimarginal regularized optimal transport problems. Our framework is general enough to cover, as particular cases, some existing algorithms like Sinkhorn and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 Vladimir Kostic , Saverio Salzo , Massimilano Pontil

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

We investigate the convergence rate of multi-marginal optimal transport costs that are regularized with the Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, as the noise parameter $\varepsilon$ tends to $0$. We establish lower and upper bounds on the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Luca Nenna , Paul Pegon