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The optimal transport barycenter (a.k.a. Wasserstein barycenter) is a fundamental notion of averaging that extends from the Euclidean space to the Wasserstein space of probability distributions. Computation of the unregularized barycenter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Kaheon Kim , Rentian Yao , Changbo Zhu , Xiaohui Chen

During recent decades, there has been a substantial development in optimal mass transport theory and methods. In this work, we consider multi-marginal problems wherein only partial information of each marginal is available, which is a setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler , Andreas Jakobsson , Johan Karlsson

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach

Given two boundary distributions, the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem seeks the ``most likely`` random evolution between them with respect to a reference process. It has revealed rich connections to recent machine learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Maosheng Yang

Optimal transport (OT) is attracting increasing attention in machine learning. It aims to transport a source distribution to a target one at minimal cost. In its vanilla form, the source and target distributions are predetermined, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Liangliang Shi , Zhaoqi Shen , Junchi Yan

The Mean-Field Schrodinger Bridge (MFSB) problem is an optimization problem aiming to find the minimum effort control policy to drive a McKean-Vlassov stochastic differential equation from one probability measure to another. In the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 George Rapakoulias , Ali Reza Pedram , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We introduce sliced optimal transport dataset distance (s-OTDD), a model-agnostic, embedding-agnostic approach for dataset comparison that requires no training, is robust to variations in the number of classes, and can handle disjoint label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Tuan Pham , Nhat Ho

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 introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

We study the complexity of approximating the multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) distance, a generalization of the classical optimal transport distance, considered here between $m$ discrete probability distributions supported each on $n$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-23 Tianyi Lin , Nhat Ho , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

Aggregating data from multiple sources can be formalized as an Optimal Transport (OT) barycenter problem, which seeks to compute the average of probability distributions with respect to OT discrepancies. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Milena Gazdieva , Jaemoo Choi , Alexander Kolesov , Jaewoong Choi , Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin

In this article we explore an algorithm for diffeomorphic random sampling of nonuniform probability distributions on Riemannian manifolds. The algorithm is based on optimal information transport (OIT)---an analogue of optimal mass transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

In this paper, we propose the Ordered Median Tree Location Problem (OMT). The OMT is a single-allocation facility location problem where p facilities must be placed on a network connected by a non-directed tree. The objective is to minimize…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Miguel A. Pozo , Justo Puerto , Alberto Torrejon

Optimal transport (OT) provides powerful tools for comparing probability measures in various types. The Wasserstein distance which arises naturally from the idea of OT is widely used in many machine learning applications. Unfortunately,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Shu Liu , Haodong Sun , Hongyuan Zha

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

Visual navigation is a core challenge in Embodied AI, requiring autonomous agents to translate high-dimensional sensory observations into continuous, long-horizon action trajectories. While generative policies based on diffusion models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Wuyang Luan , Junhui Li , Weiguang Zhao , Wenjian Zhang , Tieru Wu , Rui Ma

Optimal transport (OT) is a versatile framework for comparing probability measures, with many applications to statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. However, OT distances suffer from computational and statistical scalability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato , Gabriel Rioux , Ritwik Sadhu

We propose a multi-class point optimization formulation based on continuous Wasserstein barycenters. Our formulation is designed to handle hundreds to thousands of optimization objectives and comes with a practical optimization scheme. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Corentin Salaün , Iliyan Georgiev , Hans-Peter Seidel , Gurprit Singh

We explore a robust version of the barycenter problem among $n$ centered Gaussian probability measures, termed Semi-Unbalanced Optimal Transport (SUOT)-based Barycenter, wherein the barycenter remains fixed while the others are relaxed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ngoc-Hai Nguyen , Dung Le , Hoang-Phi Nguyen , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho

In recent advancements in proton therapy, MR-based treatment planning is gaining momentum to minimize additional radiation exposure compared to traditional CT-based methods. This transition highlights the critical need for accurate MR-to-CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Muheng Li , Xia Li , Sairos Safai , Damien Weber , Antony Lomax , Ye Zhang