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This article introduces a new notion of optimal transport (OT) between tensor fields, which are measures whose values are positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices. This "quantum" formulation of OT (Q-OT) corresponds to a relaxed version of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gabriel Peyré , Lenaïc Chizat , François-Xavier Vialard , Justin Solomon

We provide theoretical analyses for two algorithms that solve the regularized optimal transport (OT) problem between two discrete probability measures with at most $n$ atoms. We show that a greedy variant of the classical Sinkhorn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tianyi Lin , Nhat Ho , Michael I. Jordan

Ensuring fairness in matching algorithms is a key challenge in allocating scarce resources and positions. Focusing on Optimal Transport (OT), we introduce a novel notion of group fairness requiring that the probability of matching two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Linus Bleistein , Mathieu Dagréou , Francisco Andrade , Thomas Boudou , Aurélien Bellet

The mismatch capacity characterizes the highest information rate of the channel under a prescribed decoding metric and serves as a critical performance indicator in numerous practical communication scenarios. Compared to the commonly used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Xinwei Li , Lingyi Chen , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

We study distributionally robust optimization with Sinkhorn distance -- a variant of Wasserstein distance based on entropic regularization. We derive a convex programming dual reformulation for general nominal distributions, transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

We study Sinkhorn's algorithm for solving the entropically regularized optimal transport problem. Its iterate $\pi_{t}$ is shown to satisfy $H(\pi_{t}|\pi_{*})+H(\pi_{*}|\pi_{t})=O(t^{-1})$ where $H$ denotes relative entropy and $\pi_{*}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

We introduce a new class of convex-regularized Optimal Transport losses, which generalizes the classical Entropy-regularization of Optimal Transport and Sinkhorn divergences, and propose a generalized Sinkhorn algorithm. Our framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Simone Di Marino , Augusto Gerolin

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

We analyze two algorithms for approximating the general optimal transport (OT) distance between two discrete distributions of size $n$, up to accuracy $\varepsilon$. For the first algorithm, which is based on the celebrated Sinkhorn's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Alexey Kroshnin

\emph{Optimal Transport} (OT) has emerged as an important computational tool in machine learning and computer vision, providing a geometrical framework for studying probability measures. OT unfortunately suffers from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Anton Mallasto

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

We propose Acc-Sinkhorn, a simple accelerated variant of Sinkhorn for entropy-regularized optimal transport (EOT). The method is derived from a bilevel optimization view: Sinkhorn row scaling solves the inner variable $u$ exactly and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Zeyi Xu , Long Chen

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

The ability to compare two degenerate probability distributions (i.e. two probability distributions supported on two distinct low-dimensional manifolds living in a much higher-dimensional space) is a crucial problem arising in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Aude Genevay , Gabriel Peyré , Marco Cuturi

This paper presents consideration of the Semi-Relaxed Sinkhorn (SR-Sinkhorn) algorithm for the semi-relaxed optimal transport (SROT) problem, which relaxes one marginal constraint of the standard OT problem. For evaluation of how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Takumi Fukunaga , Hiroyuki Kasai

Correctly estimating the discrepancy between two data distributions has always been an important task in Machine Learning. Recently, Cuturi proposed the Sinkhorn distance which makes use of an approximate Optimal Transport cost between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Ying Lu , Liming Chen , Alexandre Saidi , Xianfeng Gu

Many problems in machine learning can be formulated as solving entropy-regularized optimal transport on the space of probability measures. The canonical approach involves the Sinkhorn iterates, renowned for their rich mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Andreas Krause

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 popular distance metric for measuring similarity between distributions. Exact algorithms for computing Optimal Transport can be slow, which has motivated the development of approximate numerical solvers (e.g. Sinkhorn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Nathaniel Lahn , Sharath Raghvendra , Kaiyi Zhang

Computing optimal transport distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. Despite the recent introduction of several algorithms with good empirical performance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Jason Altschuler , Jonathan Weed , Philippe Rigollet