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In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method to address the high-dimensional dynamic unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. Dynamic UOT focuses on the optimal transportation between two densities with unequal total mass,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Wei Wan , Jiangong Pan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

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

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

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide expressive representations of invertible transport maps that can be used to approximate complex probability distributions, e.g., for generative modeling, density estimation, and Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Youssef Marzouk , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Optimal transport (OT) aims to find a map $T$ that transports mass from one probability measure to another while minimizing a cost function. Recently, neural OT solvers have gained popularity in high dimensional biological applications such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Peter Chen , Yue Xie , Qingpeng Zhang

Optimal control problems naturally arise in many scientific applications where one wishes to steer a dynamical system from a certain initial state $\mathbf{x}_0$ to a desired target state $\mathbf{x}^*$ in finite time $T$. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Lucas Böttcher , Thomas Asikis

We provide a computational complexity analysis for the Sinkhorn algorithm that solves the entropic regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem between two measures of possibly different masses with at most $n$ components. We show…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Khiem Pham , Khang Le , Nhat Ho , Tung Pham , Hung Bui

Optimal transport (OT) serves as a natural framework for comparing probability measures, with applications in statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. Alas, statistical estimation and exact computation of the OT distances…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Tao Wang , Ziv Goldfeld

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

We study the Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) between two measures of possibly different masses with at most $n$ components, where the marginal constraints of standard Optimal Transport (OT) are relaxed via Kullback-Leibler divergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Quang Minh Nguyen , Hoang H. Nguyen , Yi Zhou , Lam M. Nguyen

Computing optimal transport (OT) for general high-dimensional data has been a long-standing challenge. Despite much progress, most of the efforts including neural network methods have been focused on the static formulation of the OT…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Inverse optimal transport (OT) refers to the problem of learning the cost function for OT from observed transport plan or its samples. In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex optimization formulation of the inverse OT problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaojun Ma , Haodong Sun , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

Computational optimal transport (OT) offers a principled framework for generative modeling. Neural OT methods, which use neural networks to learn an OT map (or potential) from data in an amortized way, can be evaluated out of sample after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alessandro Micheli , Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod , Samir Bhatt

Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

This paper investigates the semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problem with entropic regularization. We characterize the solution using a governing, well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). This naturally yields an algorithm to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

This article introduces a new notion of optimal transport (OT) between tensor fields, which are measures whose values are positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices. This "quantum" formulation of OT (Q-OT) corresponds to a relaxed version of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gabriel Peyré , Lenaïc Chizat , François-Xavier Vialard , Justin Solomon

This article studies unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) and its dynamical extension, unbalanced density control (UDC), for a class of constrained discrete-time linear systems. UOT compares measures with unequal total mass by balancing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima
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