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We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We propose a novel optimal transport-based version of the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM). Instead of handling overidentification by reweighting the data to satisfy the moment conditions (as in Generalized Empirical Likelihood methods),…

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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) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

This is the first part of a general description in terms of mass transport for time-evolving interacting particles systems, at a mesoscopic level. Beyond kinetic theory, our framework naturally applies in biology, computer vision, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Giovanni Brigati , Jan Maas , Filippo Quattrocchi

A quantum version of the Monge--Kantorovich optimal transport problem is analyzed. The transport cost is minimized over the set of all bipartite coupling states $\rho^{AB}$, such that both of its reduced density matrices $\rho^A$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Shmuel Friedland , Michał Eckstein , Sam Cole , Karol Życzkowski

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

Mobile robotic platforms are an indispensable tool for various scientific and industrial applications. Robots are used to undertake missions whose execution is constrained by various factors, such as the allocated time or their remaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Nikolaos Tsiogkas , David M. Lane

Current graph neural network (GNN) architectures naively average or sum node embeddings into an aggregated graph representation -- potentially losing structural or semantic information. We here introduce OT-GNN, a model that computes graph…

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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 discuss the relation between the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between probability distributions on a metric space, arising in the study of Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, and the spectral distance of noncommutative geometry.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Andrea , Pierre Martinetti

We introduce folded optimal transport, as a method to extend a cost or distance defined on the extreme boundary of a convex to the whole convex, related to convex extension. This construction broadens the framework of standard optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Thomas Borsoni

We consider the graph alignment problem, wherein the objective is to find a vertex correspondence between two graphs that maximizes the edge overlap. The graph alignment problem is an instance of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP),…

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We develop a theory for image restoration with a learned regularizer that is analogous to that of Meyer's characterization of solutions of the classical variational method of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF). The learned regularizer we use is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Tristan Milne , Adrian Nachman

The statistical basis for conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) approaches is commonly associated with Gaussian statistics. However, errors are rarely Gaussian in non-linear problems like FWI. In this work, we investigate the…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Sérgio Luiz E. F. da Silva , G. Kaniadakis

Quadratic regularization has emerged as a potential alternative to the popular entropic regularization in computational optimal transport, offering the theoretical advantage of producing sparse couplings through its hinge density structure.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Long Nguyen-Chi , Nam Nguyen , Binh Nguyen

Making sense of Wasserstein distances between discrete measures in high-dimensional settings remains a challenge. Recent work has advocated a two-step approach to improve robustness and facilitate the computation of optimal transport, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 François-Pierre Paty , Marco Cuturi

By building upon the recent theory that established the connection between implicit generative modeling (IGM) and optimal transport, in this study, we propose a novel parameter-free algorithm for learning the underlying distributions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Antoine Liutkus , Umut Şimşekli , Szymon Majewski , Alain Durmus , Fabian-Robert Stöter

We propose a new formulation and learning strategy for computing the Wasserstein geodesic between two probability distributions in high dimensions. By applying the method of Lagrange multipliers to the dynamic formulation of the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shu Liu , Shaojun Ma , Yongxin Chen , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou