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Optimal transport (OT) is a framework that can guide the design of efficient resource allocation strategies in a network of multiple sources and targets. This paper applies discrete OT to a swarm of UAVs in a novel way to achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jason Hughes , Dominic Larkin , Charles O'Donnell , Christopher Korpela

We present a toolkit of directed distances between quantile functions. By employing this, we solve some new optimal transport (OT) problems which e.g. considerably flexibilize some prominent OTs expressed through Wasserstein distances.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Wolfgang Stummer

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

Global pooling is one of the most significant operations in many machine learning models and tasks, whose implementation, however, is often empirical in practice. In this study, we develop a novel and solid global pooling framework through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Minjie Cheng , Hongteng Xu

Mini-batch optimal transport (m-OT) has been successfully used in practical applications that involve probability measures with a very high number of supports. The m-OT solves several smaller optimal transport problems and then returns the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-08 Khai Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Quoc Nguyen , Tung Pham , Hung Bui , Dinh Phung , Trung Le , Nhat Ho

Data representation in non-Euclidean spaces has proven effective for capturing hierarchical and complex relationships in real-world datasets. Hyperbolic spaces, in particular, provide efficient embeddings for hierarchical structures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Ethan Feng , Minh Pham

Optimal transport (OT) measures distances between distributions in a way that depends on the geometry of the sample space. In light of recent advances in computational OT, OT distances are widely used as loss functions in machine learning.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-22 Debarghya Mukherjee , Aritra Guha , Justin Solomon , Yuekai Sun , Mikhail Yurochkin

Optimal Transport (OT) has fueled machine learning (ML) across many domains. When paired data measurements $(\boldsymbol{\mu}, \boldsymbol{\nu})$ are coupled to covariates, a challenging conditional distribution learning setting arises.…

This paper presents a novel two-step approach for the fundamental problem of learning an optimal map from one distribution to another. First, we learn an optimal transport (OT) plan, which can be thought as a one-to-many map between the two…

Optimal transport distances have become a classic tool to compare probability distributions and have found many applications in machine learning. Yet, despite recent algorithmic developments, their complexity prevents their direct use on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-07 Kilian Fatras , Younes Zine , Szymon Majewski , Rémi Flamary , Rémi Gribonval , Nicolas Courty

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…

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

Network topology has significant impacts on operational performance of power systems. While extensive research efforts have been devoted to optimization of network topology for improving various system performances, the problem of how to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Tong Han , David J. Hill , Yue Song

Optimal transport (OT) has become a natural framework for guiding the probability flows. Yet, the majority of recent generative models assume trivial geometry (e.g., Euclidean) and rely on strong density-estimation assumptions, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nazar Buzun , Daniil Shlenskii , Maxim Bobrin , Dmitry V. Dylov

Optimal transport (OT) has enjoyed great success in machine learning as a principled way to align datasets via a least-cost correspondence, driven in large part by the runtime efficiency of the Sinkhorn algorithm (Cuturi, 2013). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Peter Halmos , Julian Gold , Xinhao Liu , Benjamin J. Raphael

In this paper, we present a neural network approach to address the dynamic unbalanced optimal transport problem on surfaces with point cloud representation. For surfaces with point cloud representation, traditional method is difficult to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Jiangong Pan , Wei Wan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenlong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

We present a novel framework for solving optimal transport (OT) problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) equation, whose viscosity solution uniquely characterizes the OT map. By leveraging the method of characteristics, we derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yesom Park , Shu Liu , Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher

This paper studies the equitable and optimal transport (EOT) problem, which has many applications such as fair division problems and optimal transport with multiple agents etc. In the discrete distributions case, the EOT problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

We consider problems in which a mobile robot samples an unknown function defined over its operating space, so as to find a global optimum of this function. The path traveled by the robot matters, since it influences energy and time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Tudor Santejudean , Lucian Busoniu

We provide a computational complexity analysis for the Sinkhorn algorithm that solves the entropic regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem between two measures of possibly different masses with at most $n$ components. We show…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Khiem Pham , Khang Le , Nhat Ho , Tung Pham , Hung Bui