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Comparing time series in a principled manner requires capturing both temporal alignment and distributional similarity of features. Optimal transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for this task, but existing OT-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Thai P. D. Nguyen , Hong T. M. Chu , Kim-Chuan Toh

We propose a new framework for formulating optimal transport distances between Markov chains. Previously known formulations studied couplings between the entire joint distribution induced by the chains, and derived solutions via a reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Sergio Calo , Anders Jonsson , Gergely Neu , Ludovic Schwartz , Javier Segovia-Aguas

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

In this paper we extend recent developments in computational optimal transport to the setting of Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we show how to learn optimal transport maps from samples that relate probability distributions defined on…

Optimal transport (OT) distances are finding evermore applications in machine learning and computer vision, but their wide spread use in larger-scale problems is impeded by their high computational cost. In this work we develop a family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Brahim Khalil Abid , Robert M. Gower

With the discovery of Wasserstein GANs, Optimal Transport (OT) has become a powerful tool for large-scale generative modeling tasks. In these tasks, OT cost is typically used as the loss for training GANs. In contrast to this approach, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Litu Rout , Alexander Korotin , Evgeny Burnaev

We propose a unified data-driven framework based on inverse optimal transport that can learn adaptive, nonlinear interaction cost function from noisy and incomplete empirical matching matrix and predict new matching in various matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-01 Ruilin Li , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

Continuous motorization and urbanization around the globe leads to an expansion of population in major cities. Therefore, ever-growing pressure imposed on the existing mass transit systems calls for a better technology, Intelligent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Jimmy SJ. Ren , Wei Wang , Stephen Shaoyi Liao

In machine learning, Optimal Transport (OT) theory is extensively utilized to compare probability distributions across various applications, such as graph data represented by node distributions and image data represented by pixel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jianming Huang , Xun Su , Zhongxi Fang , Hiroyuki Kasai

We investigate the optimal transport (OT) problem over networks, wherein supply and demand are conceptualized as temporal marginals governing departure rates of particles from source nodes and arrival rates at sink nodes. This setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Anqi Dong , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover , Spring Berman

The primary goal of reinforcement learning is to develop decision-making policies that prioritize optimal performance without considering risk or safety. In contrast, safe reinforcement learning aims to mitigate or avoid unsafe states. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zahra Shahrooei , Ali Baheri

To improve the performance of classical generative adversarial network (GAN), Wasserstein generative adversarial networks (W-GAN) was developed as a Kantorovich dual formulation of the optimal transport (OT) problem using Wasserstein-1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Byeongsu Sim , Gyutaek Oh , Jeongsol Kim , Chanyong Jung , Jong Chul Ye

Optimal transport is a framework for comparing measures whereby a cost is incurred for transporting one measure to another. Recent works have aimed to improve optimal transport plans through the introduction of various forms of structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Fabian Lim , Laura Wynter , Shiau Hong Lim

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a central tool in data sciences to compare in a geometrically faithful way point clouds and more generally probability distributions. The wide adoption of OT into existing data analysis and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

Optimal transport is an important tool in machine learning, allowing to capture geometric properties of the data through a linear program on transport polytopes. We present a single-loop optimization algorithm for minimizing general convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marin Ballu , Quentin Berthet

Optimal mass transport, also known as the earth mover's problem, is an optimization problem with important applications in various disciplines, including economics, probability theory, fluid dynamics, cosmology and geophysics to cite a few.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Said Kerrache , Yasushi Nakauchi

Policy Optimization (PO) algorithms have been proven particularly suited to handle the high-dimensionality of real-world continuous control tasks. In this context, Trust Region Policy Optimization methods represent a popular approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Antonio Terpin , Nicolas Lanzetti , Batuhan Yardim , Florian Dörfler , Giorgia Ramponi

We introduce a novel optimal transport framework for probabilistic circuits (PCs). While it has been shown recently that divergences between distributions represented as certain classes of PCs can be computed tractably, to the best of our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Adrian Ciotinga , YooJung Choi

This work develops a compute-efficient algorithm to tackle a fundamental problem in transportation: that of urban travel demand estimation. It focuses on the calibration of origin-destination travel demand input parameters for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Suyash Vishnoi , Akhil Shetty , Iveel Tsogsuren , Neha Arora , Carolina Osorio