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Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric tool for comparing two distributions and has been employed in various machine learning applications. In this work, we propose a novel OT formulation that takes feature correlations into account…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Pratik Jawanpuria , N T V Satyadev , Bamdev Mishra

The lane reversal has proven to be a useful method to mitigate traffic congestion during rush hour or in case of specific events that affect high traffic volumes. In this work we propose a methodology that is placed within optimization via…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Enrique Gabriel Baquela , Ana Carolina Olivera

Convex sparsity-inducing regularizations are ubiquitous in high-dimensional machine learning, but solving the resulting optimization problems can be slow. To accelerate solvers, state-of-the-art approaches consist in reducing the size of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Mathurin Massias , Alexandre Gramfort , Joseph Salmon

Recent computational strategies based on screening tests have been proposed to accelerate algorithms addressing penalized sparse regression problems such as the Lasso. Such approaches build upon the idea that it is worth dedicating some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-28 Antoine Bonnefoy , Valentin Emiya , Liva Ralaivola , Rémi Gribonval

Selecting input features of top relevance has become a popular method for building self-explaining models. In this work, we extend this selective rationalization approach to text matching, where the goal is to jointly select and align text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Kyle Swanson , Lili Yu , Tao Lei

In this work, the authors address the Optimal Transport (OT) problem on graphs using a proximal stabilized Interior Point Method (IPM). In particular, strongly leveraging on the induced primal-dual regularization, the authors propose to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Stefano Cipolla , Jacek Gondzio , Filippo Zanetti

Laue tomography experiments retrieve the positions and orientations of crystal grains in a polycrystalline samples from diffraction patterns recorded at multiple viewing angles. The use of a broad wavelength spectrum beam can greatly reduce…

In this paper, we propose an optimization based SLAM approach to simultaneously optimize the robot trajectory and the occupancy map using 2D laser scans (and odometry) information. The key novelty is that the robot poses and the occupancy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Liang Zhao , Yingyu Wang , Shoudong Huang

Most Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods are traditionally studied in an active learning setting, where agents directly interact with their environments, observe action outcomes, and learn through trial and error. However, allowing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Maryam Zare , Parham M. Kebria , Abbas Khosravi

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Zixuan Cang , Yanxiang Zhao

Existing Active SLAM methodologies face issues such as slow exploration speed and suboptimal paths. To address these limitations, we propose a hybrid framework combining a Path-Uncertainty Co-Optimization Deep Reinforcement Learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yizhen Yin , Dapeng Feng , Hongbo Chen , Yuhua Qi

To autonomously navigate in real-world environments, special in search and rescue operations, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) necessitate comprehensive maps to ensure safety. However, the prevalent metric map often lacks semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Armagan Elibol , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

This work studies how the introduction of the entropic regularization term in unbalanced Optimal Transport (OT) models may alter their homogeneity with respect to the input measures. We observe that in common settings (including balanced OT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Théo Lacombe

This work proposes an algorithm to bound the minimum distance between points on trajectories of a dynamical system and points on an unsafe set. Prior work on certifying safety of trajectories includes barrier and density methods, which do…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Jared Miller , Mario Sznaier

Bilevel optimization with traffic equilibrium constraints plays an important role in transportation planning and management problems such as traffic control, transport network design, and congestion pricing. In this paper, we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Akshit Goyal , Andrew Lamperski

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

Autonomous tracking of suspicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by legitimate monitoring UAVs (or monitors) can be crucial to public safety and security. It is non-trivial to optimize the trajectory of a monitor while conceiving its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Abbas Jamalipour , Dean Ta

This paper connects discrete optimal transport to a certain class of multi-objective optimization problems. In both settings, the decision variables can be organized into a matrix. In the multi-objective problem, the notion of Pareto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Johannes M. Schumacher

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