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The Trotter-Suzuki approximation leads to an efficient algorithm for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. Using existing highly optimized CPU and GPU kernels, we developed a distributed version of the algorithm that runs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Peter Wittek , Fernando M. Cucchietti

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach

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) is a powerful framework to compare probability measures, a fundamental task in many statistical and machine learning problems. Substantial advances have been made in designing OT variants which are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Clément Bonet , Kimia Nadjahi , Thibault Séjourné , Kilian Fatras , Nicolas Courty

This study presents a distributed gradient-based approach to solve system optimal dynamic traffic assignment (SODTA) formulated based on the cell transmission model. The algorithm distributes SODTA into local sub-problems, who find optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Mehrzad Mehrabipour , Ali Hajbabaie

Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) has emerged as a robust relaxation of standard Optimal Transport, particularly effective for handling outliers and mass variations. However, scalable algorithms for UOT, specifically those based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Ferdinand Genans

This paper proposes a new framework for distributed optimization, called distributed aggregative optimization, which allows local objective functions to be dependent not only on their own decision variables, but also on the average of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Yiguang Hong

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

In this paper, we present a new formulation of unbalanced optimal transport called Dual Regularized Optimal Transport (DROT). We argue that regularizing the dual formulation of optimal transport results in a version of unbalanced optimal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Rishi Sonthalia , Anna C. Gilbert

We propose Mirror Descent Optimal Transport (MDOT), a novel method for solving discrete optimal transport (OT) problems with high precision, by unifying temperature annealing in entropic-regularized OT (EOT) with mirror descent techniques.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mete Kemertas , Allan D. Jepson , Amir-massoud Farahmand

We present an efficient approximate message passing solver for the lifted disjoint paths problem (LDP), a natural but NP-hard model for multiple object tracking (MOT). Our tracker scales to very large instances that come from long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Andrea Hornakova , Timo Kaiser , Paul Swoboda , Michal Rolinek , Bodo Rosenhahn , Roberto Henschel

We present an efficient algorithm for regularized optimal transport. In contrast to previous methods, we use the Douglas-Rachford splitting technique to develop an efficient solver that can handle a broad class of regularizers. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jacob Lindbäck , Zesen Wang , Mikael Johansson

We propose a scalable, distributed algorithm for the optimal transport of large-scale multi-agent systems. We formulate the problem as one of steering the collective towards a target probability measure while minimizing the total cost of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Vishaal Krishnan , Sonia Martínez

Branched Optimal Transport (BOT) is a generalization of optimal transport in which transportation costs along an edge are subadditive. This subadditivity models an increase in transport efficiency when shipping mass along the same route,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Peter Lippmann , Enrique Fita Sanmartín , Fred A. Hamprecht

On-demand shared mobility is a promising and sustainable transportation approach that can mitigate vehicle externalities, such as traffic congestion and emission. On-demand shared mobility systems require matching of one (one-to-one) or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Seyed Mehdi Meshkani , Bilal Farooq

This paper proposes a distributed dual gradient tracking algorithm (DDGT) to solve resource allocation problems over an unbalanced network, where each node in the network holds a private cost function and computes the optimal resource by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Kai Cai

In this paper we consider a recently developed distributed optimization algorithm based on gradient tracking. We propose a system theory framework to analyze its structural properties on a preliminary, quadratic optimization set-up.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Michelangelo Bin , Ivano Notarnicola , Lorenzo Marconi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We present a novel hierarchical framework for optimal transport (OT) using string diagrams, namely string diagrams of optimal transports. This framework reduces complex hierarchical OT problems to standard OT problems, allowing efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kazuki Watanabe , Noboru Isobe

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential in planning and reasoning tasks, offering a flexible alternative to classical pathfinding algorithms. However, most existing studies focus on LLMs'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Kechen Li , Yaotian Tao , Ximing Wen , Quanwei Sun , Zifei Gong , Chang Xu , Xizhe Zhang , Tianbo Ji

We present a different view on stochastic optimization, which goes back to the splitting schemes for approximate solutions of ODE. In this work, we provide a connection between stochastic gradient descent approach and first-order splitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Daniil Merkulov , Ivan Oseledets