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We propose a new method to estimate Wasserstein distances and optimal transport plans between two probability distributions from samples in high dimension. Unlike plug-in rules that simply replace the true distributions by their empirical…

This paper presents a computational framework for the concise encoding of an ensemble of persistence diagrams, in the form of weighted Wasserstein barycenters [100], [102] of a dictionary of atom diagrams. We introduce a multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Keanu Sisouk , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

In this paper, we show that interventionally robust optimization problems in causal models are continuous under the $G$-causal Wasserstein distance, but may be discontinuous under the standard Wasserstein distance. This highlights the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Gabriele Visentin , Patrick Cheridito

In this paper, we introduce a dynamical urban planning model. This leads us to study a system of nonlinear equations coupled through multi-marginal optimal transport problems. A simple case consists in solving two equations coupled through…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-04 Maxime Laborde

The optimal transport and Wasserstein barycenter of Gaussian distributions have been solved. In literature, the closed form formulas of the Monge map, the Wasserstein distance and the Wasserstein barycenter have been given. Moreover, when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Keyu Chen , Yunxin Zhang

In this article, we formulate topology optimization problems concerning the mass distribution as minimization problems for functionals on the Wasserstein space. We relax optimization problems regarding non-convex objective functions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Fumiya Okazaki , Takayuki Yamada

The aim of this work is to build a reduced-order model for parametrized porous media equations. The main challenge of this type of problems is that the Kolmogorov width of the solution manifold typically decays quite slowly and thus makes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Beatrice Battisti , Tobias Blickhan , Guillaume Enchéry , Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi , Olga Mula

We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Yijie Jin , Shu Liu , Hao Wu , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

We study multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) problems where the underlying cost has a graphical structure. These graphical multi-marginal optimal transport problems have found applications in several domains including traffic flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo

Aggregating data from multiple sources can be formalized as an Optimal Transport (OT) barycenter problem, which seeks to compute the average of probability distributions with respect to OT discrepancies. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Milena Gazdieva , Jaemoo Choi , Alexander Kolesov , Jaewoong Choi , Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin

In this work, we propose a sparse transformer architecture that incorporates prior information about the underlying data distribution directly into the transformer structure of the neural network. The design of the model is motivated by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Fuqun Han , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

In this note, I review entropy-regularized Monge-Kantorovich problem in Optimal Transport, and derive the gradients of several popular algorithms popular in Computational Optimal Transport, including the Sinkhorn algorithms, Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Fangzhou Xie

Optimal transport (OT) barycenters are a mathematically grounded way of averaging probability distributions while capturing their geometric properties. In short, the barycenter task is to take the average of a collection of probability…

On the space of probability densities, we extend the Wasserstein geodesics to the case of higher-order interpolation such as cubic spline interpolation. After presenting the natural extension of cubic splines to the Wasserstein space, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Jean-David Benamou , Thomas Gallouët , François-Xavier Vialard

Given two probability densities on related data spaces, we seek a map pushing one density to the other while satisfying application-dependent constraints. For maps to have utility in a broad application space (including domain translation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Nishant Panda , Natalie Klein , Dominic Yang , Patrick Gasda , Diane Oyen

We develop structure preserving schemes for a class of nonlinear mobility continuity equation. When the mobility is a concave function, this equation admits a form of gradient flow with respect to a Wasserstein-like transport metric. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jose A. Carrillo , Li Wang , Chaozhen Wei

In this work clustering schemes for uncertain and structured data are considered relying on the notion of Wasserstein barycenters, accompanied by appropriate clustering indices based on the intrinsic geometry of the Wasserstein space where…

Flexible Bayesian models are typically constructed using limits of large parametric models with a multitude of parameters that are often uninterpretable. In this article, we offer a novel alternative by constructing an exponentially tilted…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-20 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

We introduce Primal-Dual Wasserstein GAN, a new learning algorithm for building latent variable models of the data distribution based on the primal and the dual formulations of the optimal transport (OT) problem. We utilize the primal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-25 Mevlana Gemici , Zeynep Akata , Max Welling