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We propose a novel neural algorithm for the fundamental problem of computing the entropic optimal transport (EOT) plan between continuous probability distributions which are accessible by samples. Our algorithm is based on the saddle point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Nikita Gushchin , Alexander Kolesov , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov , Evgeny Burnaev

Over the last several years, there has been significant progress in developing neural solvers for the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem and applying them to generative modelling. This new research field is justifiably fruitful as it is…

Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. In this regard, OT between tractable prior distribution and data has been utilized for generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem. In practice, recent approaches optimize a weak dual EOT objective depending on a single potential, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roman Dyachenko , Nikita Gushchin , Kirill Sokolov , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

The Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) problem and its dynamic counterpart, the Schr\"odinger bridge (SB) problem, play an important role in modern machine learning, linking generative modeling with optimal transport theory. While recent…

While the continuous Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) field has been actively developing in recent years, it became evident that the classic EOT problem is prone to different issues like the sensitivity to outliers and imbalance of classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Milena Gazdieva , Arip Asadulaev , Alexander Korotin , Evgeny Burnaev

This paper addresses the problem of Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) in which the marginal conditions are relaxed (using weighted penalties in lieu of equality) and no additional regularization is enforced on the OT plan. In this context,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Haoran Wu , Cédric Févotte , Gilles Gasso

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) provides a principled framework for modeling single-cell transitions and birth-death dynamics, but its high computational cost limits scalability to large-scale datasets. Although single-cell data often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qiangwei Peng , Lezhi Chen , Peijie Zhou

Optimal transport (OT) and unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) are central in many machine learning, statistics and engineering applications. 1D OT is easily solved, with complexity O(n log n), but no efficient algorithm was known for 1D…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Gabriel Gouvine

Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yujia Xie , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

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

We present a functional calculus treatment of Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) between Gaussian measures on separable Hilbert spaces, providing a unified framework that handles infinite-dimensional degeneracy. By leveraging the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Ho Yun

The Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem plays increasingly important roles in computational biology, computational imaging and deep learning. Scaling algorithm is widely used to solve UOT due to its convenience and good convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Xiang Chen , Faqiang Wang , Jun Liu , Li Cui

Comparing unpaired samples of a distribution or population taken at different points in time is a fundamental task in many application domains where measuring populations is destructive and cannot be done repeatedly on the same sample, such…

We investigate unpaired image inverse problems, a challenging setting where only independent, non-paired sets of noisy measurements and clean target signals are available for training. We propose a novel inverse problem solver based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Donggyu Lee , Taekyung Lee , Jaewoong Choi

Mass transport problems arise in many areas of machine learning whereby one wants to compute a map transporting one distribution to another. Generative modeling techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Denoising Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Valentin De Bortoli , Iryna Korshunova , Andriy Mnih , Arnaud Doucet

We investigate the use of entropy-regularized optimal transport (EOT) cost in developing generative models to learn implicit distributions. Two generative models are proposed. One uses EOT cost directly in an one-shot optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Dong Liu , Minh Thành Vu , Saikat Chatterjee , Lars K. Rasmussen

We consider anonymous multi-agent path finding (MAPF) where a set of robots is tasked to travel to a set of targets on a finite, connected graph. We show that MAPF can be cast as a special class of multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Usman A. Khan , Joseph W. Durham

Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

The static optimal transport $(\mathrm{OT})$ problem between Gaussians seeks to recover an optimal map, or more generally a coupling, to morph a Gaussian into another. It has been well studied and applied to a wide variety of tasks. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Charlotte Bunne , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Marco Cuturi , Andreas Krause
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