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The assignment problem, a cornerstone of operations research, seeks an optimal one-to-one mapping between agents and tasks to minimize total cost. This work traces its evolution from classical formulations and algorithms to modern optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Iman Seyedi , Antonio Candelieri , Enza Messina , Francesco Archetti

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn an optimal policy from a static dataset, making it particularly valuable in scenarios where data collection is costly, such as robotics. A major challenge in offline RL is distributional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Motoki Omura , Yusuke Mukuta , Kazuki Ota , Takayuki Osa , Tatsuya Harada

Matching a source to a target probability measure is often solved by instantiating a linear optimal transport (OT) problem, parameterized by a ground cost function that quantifies discrepancy between points. When these measures live in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Othmane Sebbouh , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

Optimal Transport (OT) distances are now routinely used as loss functions in ML tasks. Yet, computing OT distances between arbitrary (i.e. not necessarily discrete) probability distributions remains an open problem. This paper introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Arthur Mensch , Gabriel Peyré

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…

In this work, we investigate applications of no-collision transportation maps introduced in [Nurbekyan et. al., 2020] in manifold learning for image data. Recently, there has been a surge in applying transportation-based distances and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Elisa Negrini , Levon Nurbekyan

This paper proposes the use of the Hellinger--Kantorovich metric from unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) in a dimensionality reduction and learning (supervised and unsupervised) pipeline. The performance of UOT is compared to that of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Muhammad Rana , Keaton Hamm

Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

Purpose. Localizing structures and estimating the motion of a specific target region are common problems for navigation during surgical interventions. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality with a high spatial and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Marcel Bengs , Nils Gessert , Matthias Schlüter , Alexander Schlaefer

Shape matching has been a long-studied problem for the computer graphics and vision community. The objective is to predict a dense correspondence between meshes that have a certain degree of deformation. Existing methods either consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Mahdi Saleh , Shun-Cheng Wu , Luca Cosmo , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

Retinal fundus photography offers a non-invasive way to diagnose and monitor a variety of retinal diseases, but is prone to inherent quality glitches arising from systemic imperfections or operator/patient-related factors. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Vamsi Krishna Vasa , Peijie Qiu , Wenhui Zhu , Yujian Xiong , Oana Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Cross-modal matching, a fundamental task in bridging vision and language, has recently garnered substantial research interest. Despite the development of numerous methods aimed at quantifying the semantic relatedness between image-text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengxin Pan , Haishuai Wang , Fangyu Wu , Bailing Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Hongyang Chen

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

Several recent applications of optimal transport (OT) theory to machine learning have relied on regularization, notably entropy and the Sinkhorn algorithm. Because matrix-vector products are pervasive in the Sinkhorn algorithm, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Meyer Scetbon , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

Despite the recent popularity of neural network-based solvers for optimal transport (OT), there is no standard quantitative way to evaluate their performance. In this paper, we address this issue for quadratic-cost transport --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Alexander Korotin , Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for unsupervised domain adaptation, that relates notions of optimal transport, learning probability measures and unsupervised learning. The proposed approach, HOT-DA, is based on a hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani , Issam Falih , Hamid Ahaggach

Unsupervised domain adaptation is one of the challenging problems in computer vision. This paper presents a novel approach to unsupervised domain adaptations based on the optimal transport-based distance. Our approach allows aligning target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Thanh-Dat Truong , Naga Venkata Sai Raviteja Chappa , Xuan Bac Nguyen , Ngan Le , Ashley Dowling , Khoa Luu

Optimal transport (OT) theory has been been used in machine learning to study and characterize maps that can push-forward efficiently a probability measure onto another. Recent works have drawn inspiration from Brenier's theorem, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Théo Uscidda , Marco Cuturi

Learning representations that capture both intrinsic data geometry and target-relevant structure remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in settings where data reduction must balance compression with predictive fidelity. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sai-Aakash Ramesh , Archit Sood , Andrew Corbett , Tim Dodwell

We consider the problem of computing dense correspondences between non-rigid shapes with potentially significant partiality. Existing formulations tackle this problem through heavy manifold optimization in the spectral domain, given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Souhaib Attaiki , Gautam Pai , Maks Ovsjanikov