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This survey has been written in occasion of the School and Workshop about Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erd\"os Center in September 2022. We discuss some recent results on noncommutative entropic optimal transport problems and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lorenzo Portinale

Computing optimal transport distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. Despite the recent introduction of several algorithms with good empirical performance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Jason Altschuler , Jonathan Weed , Philippe Rigollet

Optimal Transport is a useful metric to compare probability distributions and to compute a pairing given a ground cost. Its entropic regularization variant (eOT) is crucial to have fast algorithms and reflect fuzzy/noisy matchings. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Francisco Andrade , Gabriel Peyre , Clarice Poon

In this paper, we propose an efficient optimal joint channel estimation and data detection algorithm for massive MIMO wireless systems. Our algorithm is optimal in terms of the generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). For massive MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary , Weiyu Xu

The problem of mismatched decoding for discrete memoryless channels is addressed. A mismatched cognitive multiple-access channel is introduced, and an inner bound on its capacity region is derived using two alternative encoding methods:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

Sinkhorn's algorithm is a method of choice to solve large-scale optimal transport (OT) problems. In this context, it involves an inverse temperature parameter $\beta$ that determines the speed-accuracy trade-off. To improve this trade-off,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Lénaïc Chizat

Despite their empirical success, the internal mechanism by which transformer models align tokens during language processing remains poorly understood. This paper provides a mechanistic and theoretical explanation of token alignment in LLMs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Hadi Daneshmand

Matrix scaling problems with sparse cost matrices arise frequently in various domains, such as optimal transport, image processing, and machine learning. The Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm is a popular iterative method for solving these problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Jose Rafael Espinosa Mena

The recent emergence of new algorithms for permuting models into functionally equivalent regions of the solution space has shed some light on the complexity of error surfaces, and some promising properties like mode connectivity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Heitor Rapela Medeiros , Thomas Dubail , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

We study inference in stochastic block models (SBMs) through the lens of optimal transport (OT). We first establish that maximum likelihood variational inference (MLVI) can be interpreted as a semi-relaxed Gromov-Wasserstein (srGW)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Simon Queric , Cédric Vincent-Cuaz , Charles Bouveyron , Marco Corneli

We study the convergence rate of Sinkhorn's algorithm for solving entropy-regularized optimal transport problems when at least one of the probability measures, $\mu$, admits a density over $\mathbb{R}^d$. For a semi-concave cost function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Lénaïc Chizat , Alex Delalande , Tomas Vaškevičius

\emph{Optimal Transport} (OT) has emerged as an important computational tool in machine learning and computer vision, providing a geometrical framework for studying probability measures. OT unfortunately suffers from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Anton Mallasto

We investigate the semi-discrete Optimal Transport (OT) problem, where a continuous source measure $\mu$ is transported to a discrete target measure $\nu$, with particular attention to the OT map approximation. In this setting, Stochastic…

In networked control, a fundamental problem is to determine the smallest capacity of a communication channel between a dynamical system and a controller above which a prescribed control objective can be achieved. Often, a preliminary task…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Sigurdur Hafstein , Christoph Kawan

Much effort has been directed at algorithms for obtaining the highest probability configuration in a probabilistic random field model known as the maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference problem. In many situations, one could benefit from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Dhruv Batra

Although Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have advanced state-of-the-art performance in machine translation, they face problems like the inadequate translation. We attribute this to that the standard Maximum Likelihood Estimation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Xiang Kong , Zhaopeng Tu , Shuming Shi , Eduard Hovy , Tong Zhang

Learning conditional distributions $\pi^*(\cdot|x)$ is a central problem in machine learning, which is typically approached via supervised methods with paired data $(x,y) \sim \pi^*$. However, acquiring paired data samples is often…

Despite the transmission efficiency gains of semantic communication (SemCom) over traditional methods, most existing SemCom schemes still operate at a fixed transmission rate regardless of channel conditions and transmitted content,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Yuhao Chen , Chongwen Huang , Qian Wang , Zehui Xiong , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this letter, a novel low complexity bit and power loading algorithm is formulated for multicarrier communication systems. The proposed algorithm jointly maximizes the throughput and minimizes the transmit power through a weighting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-13 Ebrahim Bedeer , Octavia A. Dobre , Mohamed H. Ahmed , Kareem E. Baddour