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Regularized discrete optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool to measure the distance between two discrete distributions that have been constructed from data samples on two different domains. While it has a wide range of applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yasutoshi Ida , Sekitoshi Kanai , Kazuki Adachi , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Computing the empirical Wasserstein distance in the Wasserstein-distance-based independence test is an optimal transport (OT) problem with a special structure. This observation inspires us to study a special type of OT problem and propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Yiling Xie , Yiling Luo , Xiaoming Huo

This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Titouan Vayer , Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Nicolas Courty

How can one analyze detailed 3D biological objects, such as neurons and botanical trees, that exhibit complex geometrical and topological variation? In this paper, we develop a novel mathematical framework for representing, comparing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Guan Wang , Hamid Laga , Anuj Srivastava

Max sliced Wasserstein (Max-SW) distance has been widely known as a solution for less discriminative projections of sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance. In applications that have various independent pairs of probability measures, amortized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-09 Khai Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Nhat Ho

The Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW) is a computationally efficient and theoretically grounded alternative to the Wasserstein distance. Yet, the literature on its statistical properties -- or, more accurately, its generalization properties…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Ruben Ohana , Kimia Nadjahi , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Liva Ralaivola

We study the optimal transport (OT) problem for measures supported on a graph metric space. Recently, Le et al. (2022) leverage the graph structure and propose a variant of OT, namely Sobolev transport (ST), which yields a closed-form…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Kenji Fukumizu

Data-driven distributionally robust optimization is a recently emerging paradigm aimed at finding a solution that is driven by sample data but is protected against sampling errors. An increasingly popular approach, known as Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Jonathan Yu-Meng Li , Tiantian Mao

Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment provide interpretable geometric frameworks for comparing, transforming, and aggregating heterogeneous datasets -- tasks ubiquitous in data science and machine learning. Because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Sanjit Dandapanthula , Aleksandr Podkopaev , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Aaditya Ramdas , Ziv Goldfeld

We propose a new unsupervised anomaly detection method based on the sliced-Wasserstein distance for training data selection in machine learning approaches. Our filtering technique is interesting for decision-making pipelines deploying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Julien Pallage , Antoine Lesage-Landry

Obtaining solutions to Optimal Transportation (OT) problems is typically intractable when the marginal spaces are continuous. Recent research has focused on approximating continuous solutions with discretization methods based on i.i.d.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Junqi Wang , Pei Wang , Patrick Shafto

We propose a new approach to measuring the agreement between two oscillatory time series, such as seismic waveforms, and demonstrate that it can be employed effectively in inverse problems. Our approach is based on Optimal Transport theory…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Malcolm Sambridge , Andrew Jackson , Andrew P. Valentine

The network reconfiguration problem seeks to find a rooted tree $T$ such that the energy of the (unique) feasible electrical flow over $T$ is minimized. The tree requirement on the support of the flow is motivated by operational constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Swati Gupta , Ali Khodabakhsh , Hassan Mortagy , Evdokia Nikolova

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

Optimal transmission switching (OTS) determines which transmission lines to remove from service to minimize dispatch costs. Unlike topology design, it alters the operational status of operating lines. Sensitivity-based methods, as advanced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Zongqi Hu , Weiqi Meng , Bai Cui

Comparing time series in a principled manner requires capturing both temporal alignment and distributional similarity of features. Optimal transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for this task, but existing OT-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Thai P. D. Nguyen , Hong T. M. Chu , Kim-Chuan Toh

Tree rotations (left and right) are basic local deformations allowing to transform between two unlabeled binary trees of the same size. Hence, there is a natural problem of practically finding such transformation path with low number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Jarek Duda

Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) distance is a family of metrics to gauge the discrepancy of two Radon measures, which takes into account both transportation and weight change. Spherical WFR distance is a projected version of WFR distance for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yang Jing , Jiaheng Chen , Lei Li , Jianfeng Lu

The Wasserstein distance from optimal mass transport (OMT) is a powerful mathematical tool with numerous applications that provides a natural measure of the distance between two probability distributions. Several methods to incorporate OMT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jung Hun Oh , Rena Elkin , Anish Kumar Simhal , Jiening Zhu , Joseph O Deasy , Allen Tannenbaum

Due to the mismatch of statistical distributions of acoustic speech between training and testing sets, the performance of spoken language identification (SLID) could be drastically degraded. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai