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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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Yasunori Akagi , Yusuke Tanaka , Tomoharu Iwata , Takeshi Kurashima , Hiroyuki Toda

We introduce a new stochastic algorithm for solving entropic optimal transport (EOT) between two absolutely continuous probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$. Our work is motivated by the specific setting of Monge-Kantorovich quantiles where…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Gauthier Thurin

Optimal transport (OT) has gained popularity due to its various applications in fields such as machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. However, the balanced mass requirement limits its performance in practical problems. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yikun Bai , Ivan Medri , Rocio Diaz Martin , Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Soheil Kolouri

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

The Gaussian-smoothed optimal transport (GOT) framework, recently proposed by Goldfeld et al., scales to high dimensions in estimation and provides an alternative to entropy regularization. This paper provides convergence guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yixing Zhang , Xiuyuan Cheng , Galen Reeves

Optimal transport (OT) theory focuses, among all maps $T:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ that can morph a probability measure onto another, on those that are the ``thriftiest'', i.e. such that the averaged cost $c(x, T(x))$ between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Marco Cuturi , Michal Klein , Pierre Ablin

Recently, the statistical properties of empirical Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) have attracted great interest, as this quantity has been shown to be useful for complex data analysis, among other reasons due to its computational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Santiago Arenas-Velilla , Axel Munk , Luis-Alberto Rodríguez

The optimal transport (OT) map offers the most economical way to transfer one probability measure distribution to another. Classical OT theory does not involve a discussion of preserving topological connections and orientations in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yuping Lv , Qi Zhao , Xuebin Chang , Wei Zeng

We study the structural properties of multi-period martingale optimal transport (MOT). We develop new tools to address these problems, and use them to prove several uniqueness and structural results on three-period martingale optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Brendan Pass , Joshua Hiew

We propose a novel optimal transport-based version of the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM). Instead of handling overidentification by reweighting the data to satisfy the moment conditions (as in Generalized Empirical Likelihood methods),…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-11-11 Susanne Schennach , Vincent Starck

Martingale optimal transport (MOT) often yields broad price bounds for options, constraining their practical applicability. In this study, we extend MOT by incorporating causality constraints among assets, inspired by the nonanticipativity…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-26 Erhan Bayraktar , Bingyan Han , Dominykas Norgilas

We consider the optimal mass transportation problem in $\RR^d$ with measurably parameterized marginals, for general cost functions and under conditions ensuring the existence of a unique optimal transport map. We prove a joint measurability…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Joaquin Fontbona , Helene Guerin , Sylvie Meleard

A $k$-modal probability distribution over the discrete domain $\{1,...,n\}$ is one whose histogram has at most $k$ "peaks" and "valleys." Such distributions are natural generalizations of monotone ($k=0$) and unimodal ($k=1$) probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Constantinos Daskalakis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio

This is the first part of a general description in terms of mass transport for time-evolving interacting particles systems, at a mesoscopic level. Beyond kinetic theory, our framework naturally applies in biology, computer vision, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Giovanni Brigati , Jan Maas , Filippo Quattrocchi

Mini-batch optimal transport (m-OT) has been successfully used in practical applications that involve probability measures with a very high number of supports. The m-OT solves several smaller optimal transport problems and then returns the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-08 Khai Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Quoc Nguyen , Tung Pham , Hung Bui , Dinh Phung , Trung Le , Nhat Ho

We study optimal transport (OT) problem for probability measures supported on a tree metric space. It is known that such OT problem (i.e., tree-Wasserstein (TW)) admits a closed-form expression, but depends fundamentally on the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Kenji Fukumizu

We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Sébastien Gadat , Emilia Siviero

To deploy machine learning models in the real world, researchers have proposed many OOD detection algorithms to help models identify unknown samples during the inference phase and prevent them from making untrustworthy predictions. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Heng Gao , Zhuolin He , Jian Pu

When deploying a trained machine learning model in the real world, it is inevitable to receive inputs from out-of-distribution (OOD) sources. For instance, in continual learning settings, it is common to encounter OOD samples due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chuanwen Feng , Wenlong Chen , Ao Ke , Yilong Ren , Xike Xie , S. Kevin Zhou

Salient object detection (SOD) aims to segment visually prominent regions in images and serves as a foundational task for various computer vision applications. We posit that SOD can now reach near-supervised accuracy without a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , Noman Ali , Usman Ali , Wei Xiang
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