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Classical optimal transport problem seeks a transportation map that preserves the total mass betwenn two probability distributions, requiring their mass to be the same. This may be too restrictive in certain applications such as color or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-15 Laetitia Chapel , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Gilles Gasso

The Optimal transport (OT) problem is rapidly finding its way into machine learning. Favoring its use are its metric properties. Many problems admit solutions with guarantees only for objects embedded in metric spaces, and the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Liang Mi , Azadeh Sheikholeslami , José Bento

Optimal transport is widely used to learn distributions, enforce distributional constraints, and model uncertainty. In applications, transport losses are often computed from samples through tractable representations, such as one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le

Regularizing the optimal transport (OT) problem has proven crucial for OT theory to impact the field of machine learning. For instance, it is known that regularizing OT problems with entropy leads to faster computations and better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-04 François-Pierre Paty , Marco Cuturi

We study the use of amortized optimization to predict optimal transport (OT) maps from the input measures, which we call Meta OT. This helps repeatedly solve similar OT problems between different measures by leveraging the knowledge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Brandon Amos , Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Ievgen Redko

Optimal transport (OT) based data analysis is often faced with the issue that the underlying cost function is (partially) unknown. This paper is concerned with the derivation of distributional limits for the empirical OT value when the cost…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Shayan Hundrieser , Gilles Mordant , Christoph Alexander Weitkamp , Axel Munk

Replacing the quadratic proximal penalty familiar from Hilbert spaces by an unbalanced optimal transport distance, we develop forward-backward type optimisation methods in spaces of Radon measures. We avoid the actual computation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Tuomo Valkonen

Optimal transport (OT) distances are increasingly used as loss functions for statistical inference, notably in the learning of generative models or supervised learning. Yet, the behavior of minimum Wasserstein estimators is poorly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Tianyi Lin , Zeyu Zheng , Elynn Y. Chen , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

Point sets matching problems can be handled by optimal transport. The mechanism behind it is that optimal transport recovers the point-to-point correspondence associated with the least curl deformation. Optimal transport is a special form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Janith Wijesinghe , Pengwen Chen

Optimal Transport (OT) is a resource allocation problem with applications in biology, data science, economics and statistics, among others. In some of the applications, practitioners have access to samples which approximate the continuous…

In this note, we derive upper-bounds on the statistical estimation rates of unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) maps for the quadratic cost. Our work relies on the stability of the semi-dual formulation of optimal transport (OT) extended to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Adrien Vacher , François-Xavier Vialard

An optimal transport (OT) problem seeks to find the cheapest mapping between two distributions with equal total density, given the cost of transporting density from one place to another. Unbalanced OT allows for different total density in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Jacob J. M. Francis , Colin J. Cotter , Marion P. Mittermaier

Entropic regularization is quickly emerging as a new standard in optimal transport (OT). It enables to cast the OT computation as a differentiable and unconstrained convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Mathieu Blondel , Vivien Seguy , Antoine Rolet

Optimal transport distances (OT) have been widely used in recent work in Machine Learning as ways to compare probability distributions. These are costly to compute when the data lives in high dimension. Recent work by Paty et al., 2019,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Patric M. Fulop , Vincent Danos

We study finite-sample statistical performance guarantees for distributionally robust optimization (DRO) with optimal transport (OT) and OT-regularized divergence model neighborhoods. Specifically, we derive concentration inequalities for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Jeremiah Birrell , Xiaoxi Shen

Collecting well-matched multimedia datasets is crucial for training cross-modal retrieval models. However, in real-world scenarios, massive multimodal data are harvested from the Internet, which inevitably contains Partially Mismatched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Haochen Han , Qinghua Zheng , Guang Dai , Minnan Luo , Jingdong Wang

Optimal transport (OT) has become exceedingly popular in machine learning, data science, and computer vision. The core assumption in the OT problem is the equal total amount of mass in source and target measures, which limits its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yikun Bai , Berhnard Schmitzer , Mathew Thorpe , Soheil Kolouri

In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 John Lee , Max Dabagia , Eva L. Dyer , Christopher J. Rozell

This paper proposes low tensor-train (TT) rank and low multilinear (ML) rank approximations for de-speckling and compression of 3D optical coherence tomography (OCT) images for a given compression ratio (CR). To this end, we derive the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Ivica Kopriva , Fei Shi , Mingying Lai , Marija Štanfel , Haoyu Chen , Xinjian Chen

Recently, Neural Topic Models (NTMs) inspired by variational autoencoders have obtained increasingly research interest due to their promising results on text analysis. However, it is usually hard for existing NTMs to achieve good document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-01 He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Viet Huynh , Trung Le , Wray Buntine