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The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

This paper proposes the use of the Hellinger--Kantorovich metric from unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) in a dimensionality reduction and learning (supervised and unsupervised) pipeline. The performance of UOT is compared to that of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-24 Muhammad Rana , Keaton Hamm

Recent years have witnessed a flurry of research activity in graph matching, which aims at finding the correspondence of nodes across two graphs and lies at the heart of many artificial intelligence applications. However, matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Weijie Liu , Hui Qian , Chao Zhang , Jiahao Xie , Zebang Shen , Nenggan Zheng

In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) aligns metric measure spaces by matching their within-domain relational structures, but large-scale GWOT remains challenging because its objective is nonconvex and projection onto the transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ling Liang , Lei Yang

Recently, the Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport (GWOT) problem has attracted the special attention of the ML community. In this problem, given two distributions supported on two (possibly different) spaces, one has to find the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xavier Aramayo Carrasco , Maksim Nekrashevich , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

In this work, we propose a novel approach for subgraph matching, the problem of finding a given query graph in a large source graph, based on the fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance. We formulate the subgraph matching problem as a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wen-Xin Pan , Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

Unlike conventional "black-box" transformers with classical self-attention mechanism, we build a lightweight and interpretable transformer-like neural net by unrolling a mixed-graph-based optimization algorithm to forecast traffic with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ji Qi , Tam Thuc Do , Mingxiao Liu , Zhuoshi Pan , Yuzhe Li , Gene Cheung , H. Vicky Zhao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prominent approach for learning from graph-structured data. However, their effectiveness can be significantly compromised when the graph structure is suboptimal. To address this issue, Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shen Han , Zhiyao Zhou , Jiawei Chen , Zhezheng Hao , Sheng Zhou , Gang Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can Wang

Self-supervised learning has become a key method for training deep learning models when labeled data is scarce or unavailable. While graph machine learning holds great promise across various domains, the design of effective pretext tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Amadou S. Sangare , Nicolas Dunou , Jhony H. Giraldo , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

We study the unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem, where the marginal constraints are enforced using Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) regularization. Our work is motivated by the observation that the literature on UOT is focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Piyushi Manupriya , J. Saketha Nath , Pratik Jawanpuria

Learning from point sets is an essential component in many computer vision and machine learning applications. Native, unordered, and permutation invariant set structure space is challenging to model, particularly for point set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Mohammad Shifat E Rabbi , Naqib Sad Pathan , Shiying Li , Yan Zhuang , Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat , Gustavo K Rohde

We investigate optimal transport (OT) for measures on graph metric spaces with different total masses. To mitigate the limitations of traditional $L^p$ geometry, Orlicz-Wasserstein (OW) and generalized Sobolev transport (GST) employ Orlicz…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-27 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Hideitsu Hino , Kenji Fukumizu

For tasks conducted in unknown environments with efficiency requirements, real-time navigation of multi-robot systems remains challenging due to unfamiliarity with surroundings.In this paper, we propose a novel multi-robot collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qingquan Lin , Weining Lu , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang

We introduce COPT, a novel distance metric between graphs defined via an optimization routine, computing a coordinated pair of optimal transport maps simultaneously. This gives an unsupervised way to learn general-purpose graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yihe Dong , Will Sawin

Current Graph Neural Networks (GNN) architectures generally rely on two important components: node features embedding through message passing, and aggregation with a specialized form of pooling. The structural (or topological) information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Rémi Flamary , Marco Corneli , Titouan Vayer , Nicolas Courty

This paper introduces a graph-based, potential-guided method for path planning problems in unknown environments, where obstacles are unknown until the robots are in close proximity to the obstacle locations. Inspired by optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Haoyan Zhai , Magnus Egerstedt , Haomin Zhou

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Recently, the pretrain-finetuning paradigm has attracted tons of attention in graph learning community due to its power of alleviating the lack of labels problem in many real-world applications. Current studies use existing techniques, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jiying Zhang , Xi Xiao , Long-Kai Huang , Yu Rong , Yatao Bian