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Optimal transport aligns samples across distributions by minimizing the transportation cost between them, e.g., the geometric distances. Yet, it ignores coherence structure in the data such as clusters, does not handle outliers well, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ching-Yao Chuang , Stefanie Jegelka , David Alvarez-Melis

We propose Hierarchical Optimization Time Integration (HOT) for efficient implicit time-stepping of the Material Point Method (MPM) irrespective of simulated materials and conditions. HOT is an MPM-specialized hierarchical optimization…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xinlei Wang , Minchen Li , Yu Fang , Xinxin Zhang , Ming Gao , Min Tang , Danny M. Kaufman , Chenfanfu Jiang

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

Graph data augmentation has shown superiority in enhancing generalizability and robustness of GNNs in graph-level classifications. However, existing methods primarily focus on the augmentation in the graph signal space and the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xinyu Ma , Xu Chu , Yasha Wang , Yang Lin , Junfeng Zhao , Liantao Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Hierarchical modulation (HM) is able to provide different levels of protection for data streams and achieve a rate region that cannot be realized by traditional orthogonal schemes, such as time division (TD). Nevertheless, criterions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Baicen Xiao , Kexin Xiao , Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu

The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

We propose a numerical algorithm for the computation of multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT) problems involving general probability measures that are not necessarily discrete. By developing a relaxation scheme in which marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is an effective measure of alignment between distributions supported on distinct ambient spaces. Calculating essentially the mutual departure from isometry, it has found vast usage in domain translation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-23 Anish Chakrabarty , Arkaprabha Basu , Swagatam Das

Despite the success of Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) in modeling real-world Heterogeneous Information Networks (HINs), challenges such as expressiveness limitations and over-smoothing have prompted researchers to explore Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Qiuyu Zhu , Liang Zhang , Qianxiong Xu , Kaijun Liu , Cheng Long , Xiaoyang Wang

We establish a bridge between spectral clustering and Gromov-Wasserstein Learning (GWL), a recent optimal transport-based approach to graph partitioning. This connection both explains and improves upon the state-of-the-art performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Samir Chowdhury , Tom Needham

This paper develops a computational framework for Multi-Period Martingale Optimal Transport (MMOT), addressing convergence rates, algorithmic efficiency, and financial calibration. Our contributions include: (1) Theoretical analysis: We…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-21 Sri Sairam Gautam B

Towards the development of 6G mobile networks, it is promising to integrate a large number of devices from multi-dimensional platforms, and it is crucial to have a solid understanding of the theoretical limits of large-scale networks. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanxiao Liu , Shenghao Yang , Cheuk Ting Li

In many real-world contexts, such as social or transport networks, data exhibit both structural connectivity and node-level attributes. For example, roads in a transport network can be characterized not only by their connectivity but also…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-18 Ioana Gavra , Ketsia Guichard-Sustowski , Loïc Le Marrec

We propose an implicit neural formulation of optimal transport that eliminates adversarial min--max optimization and multi-network architectures commonly used in existing approaches. Our key idea is to parameterize a single potential in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yesom Park , Eric Gelphman , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

The ability to operate anywhere, anytime, as well as their capability to hover and carry cargo on board make Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) suitable platforms to act as Flying Gateways (FGWs) to the Internet. The problem is the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Gonçalo Santos , João Martins , André Coelho , Helder Fontes , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

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

Optimal transport is a geometrically intuitive, robust and flexible metric for sample comparison in data analysis and machine learning. Its formal Riemannian structure allows for a local linearization via a tangent space approximation. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Clément Sarrazin , Bernhard Schmitzer

Alignment plays a fundamental role in many machine learning problems, such as multi-network analysis, multimodal learning, and point cloud registration. Recent works increasingly leverage optimal transport (OT) for distributional alignment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qi Yu , Ruizhong Qiu , Zhichen Zeng , My T. Thai , Huan Liu , Hanghang Tong

Given a collection of probability measures, a practitioner sometimes needs to find an "average" distribution which adequately aggregates reference distributions. A theoretically appealing notion of such an average is the Wasserstein…

This paper discusses the efficiency of Hybrid Primal-Dual (HPD) type algorithms to approximate solve discrete Optimal Transport (OT) and Wasserstein Barycenter (WB) problems, with and without entropic regularization. Our first contribution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Antonin Chambolle , Juan Pablo Contreras