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Optimal transport (OT) theory has been been used in machine learning to study and characterize maps that can push-forward efficiently a probability measure onto another. Recent works have drawn inspiration from Brenier's theorem, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Théo Uscidda , Marco Cuturi

In this work, we develop an optimal transport (OT) based framework to select informative prototypical examples that best represent a given target dataset. Summarizing a given target dataset via representative examples is an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Estimating the reachable set of a dynamical system is a fundamental problem in control theory, particularly when control inputs are bounded. Direct simulation using randomly sampled admissible controls often leads to trajectories that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Sachin Shivakumar

The following geometric vehicle scheduling problem has been considered: given continuous curves $f_1, \ldots, f_n : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$, find non-negative delays $t_1, \ldots, t_n$ minimizing $\max \{ t_1, \ldots, t_n \}$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jean-Lou De Carufel , Darryl Hill , Anil Maheshwari , Sasanka Roy , Luís Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silveira

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

Comparing time series in a principled manner requires capturing both temporal alignment and distributional similarity of features. Optimal transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for this task, but existing OT-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Thai P. D. Nguyen , Hong T. M. Chu , Kim-Chuan Toh

The sharpest known high probability generalization bounds for uniformly stable algorithms (Feldman, Vondr\'{a}k, 2018, 2019), (Bousquet, Klochkov, Zhivotovskiy, 2020) contain a generally inevitable sampling error term of order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Yegor Klochkov , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Under certain general conditions, we prove that the stable central limit theorem holds in the total variation distance and get its optimal convergence rate for all $\alpha \in (0,2)$. Our method is by two measure decompositions, one step…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Xiang Li , Lihu Xu , Haoran Yang

For an L ^2-bounded Calderon-Zygmund Operator T, and a weight w \in A_2, the norm of T on L ^2 (w) is dominated by A_2 characteristic of the weight. The recent theorem completes a line of investigation initiated by Hunt-Muckenhoupt-Wheeden…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Michael T Lacey

We prove several fundamental statistical bounds for entropic OT with the squared Euclidean cost between subgaussian probability measures in arbitrary dimension. First, through a new sample complexity result we establish the rate of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Gonzalo Mena , Jonathan Weed

This work establishes that an optimal transport~(OT) problem regularized by a given $f$-divergence admits the same solution as another OT problem regularized by a different $g$-divergence, under an appropriate transformation of the cost…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Maxime Nicaise , Yaiza Bermudez , Samir M. Perlaza

With the widespread application of optimal transport (OT), its calculation becomes essential, and various algorithms have emerged. However, the existing methods either have low efficiency or cannot represent discontinuous maps. A novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zezeng Li , Shenghao Li , Lianbao Jin , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo

Under the Riemann Hypothesis, we show that as $t$ varies in $T\leq t \leq 2T$, the distribution of $\log|\zeta(1/2+it)|$ with respect to the measure $|\zeta(1/2+it)|^2dt$ is approximately normal with mean $\log\log T$ and variance…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Alessandro Fazzari

We investigate approximation guarantees provided by logistic regression for the fundamental problem of agnostic learning of homogeneous halfspaces. Previously, for a certain broad class of "well-behaved" distributions on the examples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ziwei Ji , Kwangjun Ahn , Pranjal Awasthi , Satyen Kale , Stefani Karp

Optimal transport (OT) theory provides powerful tools to compare probability measures. However, OT is limited to nonnegative measures having the same mass, and suffers serious drawbacks about its computation and statistics. This leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-26 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) presents an effective and computationally viable alternative to unregularized optimal transport (OT), offering diverse applications for large-scale data analysis. In this work, we derive novel statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Michel Groppe , Shayan Hundrieser

We obtain (up to logarithmic scaling) the power-law lower bound $M_{p}(T_{k})\gtrsim T_{k}^{(1-\delta)p}$ on a subsequence $T_{k}\rightarrow\infty$, uniformly across $p>0$, for discrete one-dimensional quasiperiodic Schr\"odinger operators…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Lian Haeming

Let $[q] = \{0,1,\ldots,q-1\}$, let $\Delta[q]$ denote the simplex of probability measures on $[q]$, and let $\gamma$ denote the Lebesgue measure normalized on $\Delta[q]$. We prove that for any symmetric monotone function $f \colon[q]^n…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Saba Lepsveridze , Allen Lin

Optimal transport (OT) has become a widely used tool in the machine learning field to measure the discrepancy between probability distributions. For instance, OT is a popular loss function that quantifies the discrepancy between an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Shintaro Nakamura , Han Bao , Masashi Sugiyama

We prove that the maximal operator obtained by taking averages at scale 1 along $N$ arbitrary directions on the sphere, is bounded in $L^2(\R^3)$ by $N^{1/4}{\log N}$. When the directions are $N^{-1/2}$ separated, we improve the bound to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Ciprian Demeter