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An optimal transport (OT) problem seeks to find the cheapest mapping between two distributions with equal total density, given the cost of transporting density from one place to another. Unbalanced OT allows for different total density in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Jacob J. M. Francis , Colin J. Cotter , Marion P. Mittermaier

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) is a natural extension of optimal transport (OT) allowing comparison between measures of different masses. It arises naturally in machine learning by offering a robustness against outliers. The aim of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Luca Nenna , Paul Pegon , Louis Tocquec

The discrete optimal transport (OT) problem, which offers an effective computational tool for comparing two discrete probability distributions, has recently attracted much attention and played essential roles in many modern applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Di Hou , Ling Liang , Kim-Chuan Toh

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

We develop a fast and reliable method for solving large-scale optimal transport (OT) problems at an unprecedented combination of speed and accuracy. Built on the celebrated Douglas-Rachford splitting technique, our method tackles the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Vien V. Mai , Jacob Lindbäck , Mikael Johansson

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

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

Recently, collocation based radial basis function (RBF) partition of unity methods (PUM) for solving partial differential equations have been formulated and investigated numerically and theoretically. When combined with stable evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Shcherbakov , Alfa Heryudono

Replacing the quadratic proximal penalty familiar from Hilbert spaces by an unbalanced optimal transport distance, we develop forward-backward type optimisation methods in spaces of Radon measures. We avoid the actual computation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Tuomo Valkonen

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

This work investigates the use of robust optimal transport (OT) for shape matching. Specifically, we show that recent OT solvers improve both optimization-based and deep learning methods for point cloud registration, boosting accuracy at an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Zhengyang Shen , Jean Feydy , Peirong Liu , Ariel Hernán Curiale , Ruben San Jose Estepar , Raul San Jose Estepar , Marc Niethammer

The radial basis function (RBF) method is used for the numerical solution of the Poisson problem in high dimension. The approximate solution can be found by solving a large system of linear equations. Here we investigate the extent to which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Lingxia Cui , Zongming Wu , Hua Xiang

Recovering the dynamics from a few snapshots of a high-dimensional system is a challenging task in statistical physics and machine learning, with important applications in computational biology. Many algorithms have been developed to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuhao Sun , Zhenyi Zhang , Zihan Wang , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

Entropy regularized optimal transport and its multi-marginal generalization have attracted increasing attention in various applications, in particular due to efficient Sinkhorn-like algorithms for computing optimal transport plans. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Florian Beier , Johannes von Lindheim , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

In this article, we study unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) and establish a control-theoretic dynamical extension, which we call the unbalanced density control (UDC), for a class of Gaussian reference measures. In the static setting, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

Transportation Problem is an important problem which has been widely studied in Operations Research domain. It has been often used to simulate different real life problems. In particular, application of this Problem in NP Hard Problems has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Arindam Chaudhuri , Kajal De , Dipak Chatterjee , Pabitra Mitra

We propose a volumetric formulation for computing the Optimal Transport problem defined on surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, found in disciplines like optics, computer graphics, and computational methodologies. Instead of directly tackling the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Richard Tsai , Axel G. R. Turnquist

Aggregating data from multiple sources can be formalized as an Optimal Transport (OT) barycenter problem, which seeks to compute the average of probability distributions with respect to OT discrepancies. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Milena Gazdieva , Jaemoo Choi , Alexander Kolesov , Jaewoong Choi , Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin