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Most common Optimal Transport (OT) solvers are currently based on an approximation of underlying measures by discrete measures. However, it is sometimes relevant to work only with moments of measures instead of the measure itself, and many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Olga Mula , Anthony Nouy

Optimal Transport (OT) distances such as Wasserstein have been used in several areas such as GANs and domain adaptation. OT, however, is very sensitive to outliers (samples with large noise) in the data since in its objective function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yogesh Balaji , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

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

Sensitivity analysis with forced optimally time dependent (f-OTD) modes is introduced and its application for skeletal model reduction is demonstrated. f-OTD expands the sensitivity coefficient matrix into a lowdimensional, time dependent,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 A. G. Nouri , H. Babaee , P. Givi , H. K. Chelliah , D. Livescu

Accurate and economical modeling of near-surface transport processes is a standing challenge for various engineering and atmospheric boundary-layer flows. In this paper, we address this challenge by utilizing a stochastic one-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-01 Marten Klein , Heiko Schmidt , David O. Lignell

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

While catalytic mechanisms on electrode surfaces have been proposed for decades, the pathways by which the product's chemical bonds evolve from the initial charge-trapping intermediates have not been resolved in time. Here, we discover a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-06 X. Chen , D. J. Aschaffenburg , T. Cuk

Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) has emerged as a robust relaxation of standard Optimal Transport, particularly effective for handling outliers and mass variations. However, scalable algorithms for UOT, specifically those based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Ferdinand Genans

Zeolites are important for industrial catalytic processes involving organic molecules. Understanding molecular reaction mechanisms within the confined nanoporous environment can guide the selection of pore topologies, material compositions,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Pau Ferri-Vicedo , Alexander J. Hoffman , Avni Singhal , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Understanding mechanisms of rare but important events in complex molecular systems, such as protein folding or ligand (un)binding, requires accurately mapping transition paths from an initial to a final state. The committor is the ideal…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Rik S. Breebaart , Gianmarco Lazzeri , Roberto Covino , Peter G. Bolhuis

The global optimization of atomic clusters represents a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry and materials science due to the exponential growth of local minima with system size (i.e., the curse of dimensionality). We introduce…

This paper focuses on the N-k security-constrained optimal transmission switching (OTS) problem for variable renewable energy (VRE) penetrated power grids. A new three-stage stochastic and distributionally robust OTS model is proposed. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Tong Han , David J. Hill , Yue Song

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

Flow Matching (FM) generative models offer efficient simulation-free training and deterministic sampling, but their practical deployment is challenged by high-precision parameter requirements. We adapt optimal transport (OT)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dara Varam , Diaa A. Abuhani , Imran Zualkernan , Raghad AlDamani , Lujain Khalil

In a dynamical system, the transition between reactants and products is typically mediated by an energy barrier whose properties determine the corresponding pathways and rates. The latter is the flux through a dividing surface (DS) between…

Transition path theory (TPT) offers a powerful formalism for extracting the rate and mechanism of rare dynamical transitions between metastable states. Most applications of TPT either focus on systems with modestly sized state spaces or use…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Nils E. Strand , Schuyler B. Nicholson , Hadrien Vroylandt , Todd R. Gingrich

Exploring controllable interactions lies at the heart of quantum science. Neutral Rydberg atoms provide a versatile route toward flexible interactions between single quanta. Previous efforts mainly focused on the excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiao-Feng Shi

In many scientific fields which rely on statistical inference, simulations are often used to map from theoretical models to experimental data, allowing scientists to test model predictions against experimental results. Experimental data is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-07 Jessica N. Howard , Stephan Mandt , Daniel Whiteson , Yibo Yang

Reaction coordinates (RCs) are low-dimensional representations of complex dynamical systems that capture their long-term dynamics. In this work, we focus on the criteria of lumpability and decomposability, previously established for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Zhicheng Zhang , Ling Guo , Hao Wu

The transition interface sampling (TIS) technique allows to overcome large free energy barriers within reasonable simulation time, which is impossible for straightforward molecular dynamics. Still, the method does not impose an artificial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Titus S. van Erp , Tom P. Caremans , Christine E. A. Kirschhock , Johan A. Martens