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The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

Neural networks encode inputs as high-dimensional vectors, known as representations, that capture how models process data by encoding task-relevant structure and semantics. Representation alignment refers to the degree to which different…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinyuan Yan , Rita Sevastjanova , Mennatallah El-Assady , Bei Wang

The goal of this paper is to introduce a new theoretical framework for Optimal Transport (OT), using the terminology and techniques of Fully Probabilistic Design (FPD). Optimal Transport is the canonical method for comparing probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sarah Boufelja Y. , Anthony Quinn , Martin Corless , Robert Shorten

The optimal transport problem has many applications in machine learning, physics, biology, economics, etc. Although its goal is very clear and mathematically well-defined, finding its optimal solution can be challenging for large datasets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Persistent Homology is a widely used topological data analysis tool that creates a concise description of the topological properties of a point cloud based on a specified filtration. Most filtrations used for persistent homology depend…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Vincent P. Grande , Michael T. Schaub

We introduce a novel geometry-oriented methodology, based on the emerging tools of topological data analysis, into the change point detection framework. The key rationale is that change points are likely to be associated with changes in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-30 Umar Islambekov , Monisha Yuvaraj , Yulia R. Gel

Optimal Transport has recently gained interest in machine learning for applications ranging from domain adaptation, sentence similarities to deep learning. Yet, its ability to capture frequently occurring structure beyond the "ground…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Stefanie Jegelka

Optimal transport (OT) distances between probability distributions are parameterized by the ground metric they use between observations. Their relevance for real-life applications strongly hinges on whether that ground metric parameter is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-06 Matthieu Heitz , Nicolas Bonneel , David Coeurjolly , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a tool from data science and mathematics that is beginning to make waves in environmental science. In this work, we seek to provide an intuitive and understandable introduction to a tool from TDA that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lander Ver Hoef , Henry Adams , Emily J. King , Imme Ebert-Uphoff

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an area of data science that focuses on using invariants from algebraic topology to provide multiscale shape descriptors for geometric data sets such as point clouds. One of the most important such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Loiseaux , Mathieu Carrière , Andrew J. Blumberg

In this paper, we extended road-based topological analysis to both nationwide and urban road networks, and concentrated on a sensitivity study with respect to the formation of self-organized natural roads based on the Gestalt principle of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-07-14 Bin Jiang , Sijian Zhao , Junjun Yin

Persistence diagrams (PDs) are now routinely used to summarize the underlying topology of complex data. Despite several appealing properties, incorporating PDs in learning pipelines can be challenging because their natural geometry is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Théo Lacombe , Marco Cuturi , Steve Oudot

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

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is the collection of mathematical tools that capture the structure of shapes in data. Despite computational topology and computational geometry, the utilization of TDA in time series and signal processing is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Shafie Gholizadeh , Wlodek Zadrozny

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

The optimal transport problem for measures supported on non-Euclidean spaces has recently gained ample interest in diverse applications involving representation learning. In this paper, we focus on circular probability measures, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Rocio Diaz Martin , Ivan Medri , Yikun Bai , Xinran Liu , Kangbai Yan , Gustavo K. Rohde , Soheil Kolouri

In this paper, we propose a concept to design, track, and compare application-specific feature definitions expressed as sets of critical points. Our work has been inspired by the observation that in many applications a large variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Wito Engelke , Talha Bin Masood , Jakob Beran , Rodrigo Caballero , Ingrid Hotz

Recovering point clouds involves the sequential process of sampling and restoration, yet existing methods struggle to effectively leverage both topological and geometric attributes. To address this, we propose an end-to-end architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaiyue Zhou , Zelong Tan , Hongxiao Wang , Ya-Li Li , Shengjin Wang

The Self-Optimal-Transport (SOT) feature transform is designed to upgrade the set of features of a data instance to facilitate downstream matching or grouping related tasks. The transformed set encodes a rich representation of high order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Daniel Shalam , Simon Korman