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Optimal transport is widely used to learn distributions, enforce distributional constraints, and model uncertainty. In applications, transport losses are often computed from samples through tractable representations, such as one-dimensional…

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The classical development of neural networks has primarily focused on learning mappings between finite dimensional Euclidean spaces or finite sets. We propose a generalization of neural networks to learn operators, termed neural operators,…

Dissipative partial differential equations that exhibit chaotic dynamics tend to evolve to attractors that exist on finite-dimensional manifolds. We present a data-driven reduced order modeling method that capitalizes on this fact by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Alec J. Linot , Michael D. Graham

This paper studies the convergence rates of optimal transport (OT) map estimators, a topic of growing interest in statistics, machine learning, and various scientific fields. Despite recent advancements, existing results rely on regularity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Yizhe Ding , Runze Li , Lingzhou Xue

We study the problem of designing hard negative sampling distributions for unsupervised contrastive representation learning. We propose and analyze a novel min-max framework that seeks a representation which minimizes the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ruijie Jiang , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

Standard machine learning is unable to accommodate inputs which do not belong to the training distribution. The resulting models often give rise to confident incorrect predictions which may lead to devastating consequences. This problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Matej Grcić , Petra Bevandić , Zoran Kalafatić , Siniša Šegvić

We investigate neural ordinary and stochastic differential equations (neural ODEs and SDEs) to model stochastic dynamics in fully and partially observed environments within a model-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework. Through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chao Han , Stefanos Ioannou , Luca Manneschi , T. J. Hayward , Michael Mangan , Aditya Gilra , Eleni Vasilaki

This paper proposes the use of spectral element methods \citep{canuto_spectral_1988} for fast and accurate training of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE-Nets; \citealp{Chen2018NeuralOD}) for system identification. This is achieved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Alessio Quaglino , Marco Gallieri , Jonathan Masci , Jan Koutník

Optimal Transport (OT) problems are a cornerstone of many applications, but solving them is computationally expensive. To address this problem, we propose UNOT (Universal Neural Optimal Transport), a novel framework capable of accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jonathan Geuter , Gregor Kornhardt , Ingimar Tomasson , Vaios Laschos

Neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs) are a popular type of deep learning model that operate with continuous-depth architectures. To assess how well such models perform on unseen data, it is crucial to understand their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Madhusudan Verma , Manoj Kumar

We develop a theory for image restoration with a learned regularizer that is analogous to that of Meyer's characterization of solutions of the classical variational method of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF). The learned regularizer we use is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Tristan Milne , Adrian Nachman

Ordinary differential equation (ODE) is widely used in modeling biological and physical processes in science. In this article, we propose a new reproducing kernel-based approach for estimation and inference of ODE given noisy observations.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-26 Xiaowu Dai , Lexin Li

We propose a simple interpolation-based method for the efficient approximation of gradients in neural ODE models. We compare it with the reverse dynamic method (known in the literature as "adjoint method") to train neural ODEs on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Talgat Daulbaev , Alexandr Katrutsa , Larisa Markeeva , Julia Gusak , Andrzej Cichocki , Ivan Oseledets

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

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) are a novel neural architecture, built around initial value problems with learned dynamics which are solved during inference. Thought to be inherently more robust against adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Mustafa Zeqiri , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Optimal Transport (OT) distances such as Wasserstein have been used in several areas such as GANs and domain adaptation. OT, however, is very sensitive to outliers (samples with large noise) in the data since in its objective function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yogesh Balaji , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

In this work, we propose a novel layerwise adaptive construction method for neural network architectures. Our approach is based on a goal--oriented dual-weighted residual technique for the optimal control of neural differential equations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Michael Hintermüller , Michael Hinze , Denis Korolev

A neural ordinary differential equation (neural ODE) is a machine learning model that is commonly described as a continuous-depth generalization of a residual network (ResNet) with a single residual block, or conversely, the ResNet can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Abdelrahman Sayed Sayed , Pierre-Jean Meyer , Mohamed Ghazel

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering the $W_2$-optimal transport map T between absolutely continuous measures $\mu,\nu\in\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ as the flow of a linear-control neural ODE, where the control depends only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Alessandro Scagliotti , Sara Farinelli

Macroscopic traffic flow is stochastic, but the physics-informed deep learning methods currently used in transportation literature embed deterministic PDEs and produce point-valued outputs; the stochasticity of the governing dynamics plays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Wuping Xin