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In earlier work (Zhang et al., 2016) we used actual traffic data from the Eastern Massachusetts transportation network in the form of spatial average speeds and road segment flow capacities in order to estimate Origin-Destination (OD) flow…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Jing Zhang , Sepideh Pourazarm , Christos G. Cassandras , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

This paper investigates the problem of tracking solutions of stochastic optimization problems with time-varying costs that depend on random variables with decision-dependent distributions. In this context, we propose the use of an online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Killian Wood , Gianluca Bianchin , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Knowing when a trained segmentation model is encountering data that is different to its training data is important. Understanding and mitigating the effects of this play an important part in their application from a performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 David S. W. Williams , Daniele De Martini , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman

Equilibrium modeling is common in a variety of fields such as game theory and transportation science. The inputs for these models, however, are often difficult to estimate, while their outputs, i.e., the equilibria they are meant to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vishal Gupta , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Origin-Destination Matrix (ODM) estimation is a classical problem in transport engineering aiming to recover flows from every Origin to every Destination from measured traffic counts and a priori model information. In addition to traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Gabriel Michau , Nelly Pustelnik , Pierre Borgnat , Patrice Abry , Alfredo Nantes , Ashish Bhaskar , Edward Chung

Recent transportation network studies on uncertainty and reliability call for modeling the probabilistic O-D demand and probabilistic network flow. Making the best use of day-to-day traffic data collected over many years, this paper…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-20 Wei Ma , Zhen Qian

The increasing popularity of regression discontinuity methods for causal inference in observational studies has led to a proliferation of different estimating strategies, most of which involve first fitting non-parametric regression models…

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Rapid urbanization places increasing stress on already burdened transportation systems, resulting in delays and poor levels of service. Billions of spatiotemporal call detail records (CDRs) collected from mobile devices create new…

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This paper introduces a new computational framework to account for uncertainties in day-ahead electricity market clearing process in the presence of demand response providers. A central challenge when dealing with many demand response…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-01 Hao Ming , Le Xie , Marco Campi , Simone Garatti , P. R. Kumar

We investigate the semi-discrete Optimal Transport (OT) problem, where a continuous source measure $\mu$ is transported to a discrete target measure $\nu$, with particular attention to the OT map approximation. In this setting, Stochastic…

As simulation is increasingly used in scenario-based approaches to test Automated Driving Systems, the credibility of simulation results is a major concern. Arguably, credibility depends on the validity of the simulation setup and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Niklas Braun , Markus Steimle , Martin Törngren , Markus Maurer

We present a novel reduced-order Model (ROM) that leverages optimal transport (OT) theory and displacement interpolation to enhance the representation of nonlinear dynamics in complex systems. While traditional ROM techniques face…

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Estimating the reachable set of a dynamical system is a fundamental problem in control theory, particularly when control inputs are bounded. Direct simulation using randomly sampled admissible controls often leads to trajectories that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Sachin Shivakumar

This paper presents a novel methodology that uses surrogate models in the form of neural networks to reduce the computation time of simulation-based optimization of a reference trajectory. Simulation-based optimization is necessary when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Evelyn Ruff , Rebecca Russell , Matthew Stoeckle , Piero Miotto , Jonathan P. How

Given samples from two joint distributions, we consider the problem of Optimal Transportation (OT) between them when conditioned on a common variable. We focus on the general setting where the conditioned variable may be continuous, and the…

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Many natural systems exhibit cyclo-stationary behavior characterized by periodic forcing such as annual and diurnal cycles. We present a data-driven method leveraging recent advances in score-based generative modeling to construct…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ludovico Theo Giorgini , Tobias Bischoff , Andre Noguiera Souza

Exploiting synthetic data to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the intrinsic domain difference between synthetic and real images usually causes a significant performance drop when applying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Luc Van Gool

We address the computational and theoretical limitations of current distributional alignment methods for source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) using source class-mean features. In particular, we focus on estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yiming Zhang , Sitong Liu , Alex Cloninger

Optimal Transport (OT) based distances are powerful tools for machine learning to compare probability measures and manipulate them using OT maps. In this field, a setting of interest is semi-discrete OT, where the source measure $\mu$ is…

Moment optimization techniques have been recently proposed to solve globally various classes of optimal control problems. As those methods return truncated moment sequences of occupation measures, this paper explores a numeric method for…

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