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Vector quantile regression (VQR) is an optimal transport (OT)-based framework that extends linear quantile regression to vector-valued response variables and can be formulated as an OT problem with a mean-independence constraint. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Kengo Kato , Boyu Wang

This paper presents multilevel hybrid transport (MLHT) methods for solving the neutral-particle Boltzmann transport equation. The proposed MLHT methods are formulated on a sequence of spatial grids using a multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Vincent N. Novellino , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

\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) plays an essential role in various areas like machine learning and deep learning. However, computing discrete optimal transport plan for large scale problems with adequate accuracy and efficiency is still highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Dongsheng An , Na Lei , Xianfeng Gu

For a family of probability spaces $\{(X_k,\mathcal{B}_{X_k},\mu_k)\}_{k=1}^N$ and a cost function $c: X_1\times\cdots\times X_N\to \mathbb{R}$ we consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem \begin{align*}\tag{MK}\label{MONKANT}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Mohammad Ali Ahmadpoor , Abbas Moameni

In this paper, we aim at the completion problem of high order tensor data with missing entries. The existing tensor factorization and completion methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality when the order of tensor N>>3. To overcome this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Longhao Yuan , Qibin Zhao , Jianting Cao

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

Real-world physical systems, like composite materials and porous media, exhibit complex heterogeneities and multiscale nature, posing significant computational challenges. Computational homogenization is useful for predicting macroscopic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yuki Sato , Yuto Lewis Terashima , Ruho Kondo

We introduce the tensor numerical method for solving optimal control problems that are constrained by fractional 2D and 3D elliptic operators with variable coefficients. We solve the governing equation for the control function which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Britta Schmitt , Boris N. Khoromskij , Venera Khoromskaia , Volker Schulz

In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 John Lee , Max Dabagia , Eva L. Dyer , Christopher J. Rozell

Sinkhorn algorithm has been used pervasively to approximate the solution to optimal transport (OT) and unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problems. However, its practical application is limited due to the high computational complexity. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-07 Mengyu Li , Jun Yu , Tao Li , Cheng Meng

The paper develops an optimal regulator for a general class of multi-input affine nonlinear systems minimizing a nonlinear cost functional with infinite horizon. The cost functional is general enough to enforce saturation limits on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Nader Sadegh , Hassan Almubarak

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized across multiple spaces. Therefore, it is crucial to maintain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Zixuan Cang , Yanxiang Zhao

Consider a transportation problem with sets of sources and sinks. There are profits and prices on the edges. The goal is to maximize the profit while meeting the following constraints; the total flow going out of a source must not exceed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-26 S. Kapoor , M. Sarwat

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

In this paper, we are motivated by two important applications: entropy-regularized optimal transport problem and road or IP traffic demand matrix estimation by entropy model. Both of them include solving a special type of optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Sergey Omelchenko , Alexander Tiurin

Optimal transport (OT) finds a least cost transport plan between two probability distributions using a cost matrix defined on pairs of points. Unlike standard OT, which infers unstructured pointwise mappings, low-rank optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Henri Schmidt , Peter Halmos , Ben Raphael

Motivated by modern machine learning applications where we only have access to empirical measures constructed from finite samples, we relax the marginal constraints of the classical Schr\"odinger bridge problem by penalizing the transport…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yifan Jiang , Renyuan Xu , Luhao Zhang

We investigate the convergence rate of multi-marginal optimal transport costs that are regularized with the Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, as the noise parameter $\varepsilon$ tends to $0$. We establish lower and upper bounds on the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Luca Nenna , Paul Pegon

This paper proposes a novel formulation of the tensor completion problem to impute missing entries of data represented by tensors. The formulation is introduced in terms of tensor train (TT) rank which can effectively capture global…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Ho N. Phien , Hoang D. Tuan , Johann A. Bengua , Minh N. Do