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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) is being widely used in various fields such as machine learning and computer vision, as it is a powerful tool for measuring the similarity between probability distributions and histograms. In previous studies, OT has…

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We propose a novel dynamic image reconstruction method from PET listmode data that could be particularly suited to tracking single or small numbers of cells. In contrast to conventional PET reconstruction our method combines the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Bernhard Schmitzer , Klaus P. Schäfers , Benedikt Wirth

Recently, linear regression models incorporating an optimal transport (OT) loss have been explored for applications such as supervised unmixing of spectra, music transcription, and mass spectrometry. However, these task-specific approaches…

Many foraging microorganisms rely upon cellular transport networks to deliver nutrients, fluid and organelles between different parts of the organism. Networked organisms ranging from filamentous fungi to slime molds demonstrate a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-12-08 Cassidy Mentus , Marcus Roper

Intelligent routing in networks has opened up many challenges in modelling and methods, over the past decade. Many techniques do exist for routing on such an environment where path determination was carried out by advertisement, position…

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The field of bioinformatics has seen significant progress, making the cross-modal text-molecule retrieval task increasingly vital. This task focuses on accurately retrieving molecule structures based on textual descriptions, by effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zijun Min , Bingshuai Liu , Liang Zhang , Jia Song , Jinsong Su , Song He , Xiaochen Bo

Graph alignment, which aims at identifying corresponding entities across multiple networks, has been widely applied in various domains. As the graphs to be aligned are usually constructed from different sources, the inconsistency issues of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianheng Tang , Weiqi Zhang , Jiajin Li , Kangfei Zhao , Fugee Tsung , Jia Li

We consider optimal transport based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with locally strongly convex transport cost functions and affine decision rules. Under conventional convexity assumptions on the underlying loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Jose Blanchet , Karthyek Murthy , Fan Zhang

OD matrix estimation is a critical problem in the transportation domain. The principle method uses the traffic sensor measured information such as traffic counts to estimate the traffic demand represented by the OD matrix. The problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zheli Xiong , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen , Gang Chen , Xiaomin Cheng

Real-world image super-resolution (SR) tasks often do not have paired datasets, which limits the application of supervised techniques. As a result, the tasks are usually approached by unpaired techniques based on Generative Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Milena Gazdieva , Petr Mokrov , Litu Rout , Alexander Korotin , Andrey Kravchenko , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev

Machine learning systems operate under the assumption that training and test data are sampled from a fixed probability distribution. However, this assumptions is rarely verified in practice, as the conditions upon which data was acquired…

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Survival prediction is a complicated ordinal regression task that aims to predict the ranking risk of death, which generally benefits from the integration of histology and genomic data. Despite the progress in joint learning from pathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yingxue Xu , Hao Chen

Traffic control optimization is a challenging task for various traffic centers around the world and the majority of existing approaches focus only on developing adaptive methods under normal (recurrent) traffic conditions. Optimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Tuo Mao , Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Fang Chen , Hai L. Vu

The optimization of structural parameters, such as mass(m), stiffness(k), and damping coefficient(c), is critical for designing efficient, resilient, and stable structures. Conventional numerical approaches, including Finite Element Method…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sagnik Mukherjee , Indrajit Barua

Sliced Optimal Transport (SOT) is a rapidly developing branch of optimal transport (OT) that exploits the tractability of one-dimensional OT problems. By combining tools from OT, integral geometry, and computational statistics, SOT enables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Khai Nguyen

Flow-based Generative Models (FGMs) effectively transform noise into complex data distributions. Incorporating Optimal Transport (OT) to couple noise and data during FGM training has been shown to improve the straightness of flow…

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Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are increasingly used for explaining biological processes with complex transcriptional regulation. A GRN links the expression levels of a set of genes via regulatory controls that gene products exert on one…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-21 Guy Karlebach

Optimal transport aligns samples across distributions by minimizing the transportation cost between them, e.g., the geometric distances. Yet, it ignores coherence structure in the data such as clusters, does not handle outliers well, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ching-Yao Chuang , Stefanie Jegelka , David Alvarez-Melis

Regularized optimal transport (OT) is now increasingly used as a loss or as a matching layer in neural networks. Entropy-regularized OT can be computed using the Sinkhorn algorithm but it leads to fully-dense transportation plans, meaning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Tianlin Liu , Joan Puigcerver , Mathieu Blondel