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Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT), also referred to as the Schr\"odinger problem, seeks to find a random processes with prescribed initial/final marginals and with minimal relative entropy with respect to a reference measure. The relative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Marc Hoffmann , Grégoire Loeper , François-Xavier Vialard

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

We present a functional calculus treatment of Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) between Gaussian measures on separable Hilbert spaces, providing a unified framework that handles infinite-dimensional degeneracy. By leveraging the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Ho Yun

In optimal transport, quadratic regularization is a sparse alternative to entropic regularization: the solution measure tends to have small support. Computational experience suggests that the support decreases monotonically to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz , Andrés Riveros Valdevenito

Estimating optimal transport (OT) maps (a.k.a. Monge maps) between two measures $P$ and $Q$ is a problem fraught with computational and statistical challenges. A promising approach lies in using the dual potential functions obtained when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-20 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Marco Cuturi , Jonathan Niles-Weed

The optimal transport (OT) map is a geometry-driven transformation between high-dimensional probability distributions which underpins a wide range of tasks in statistics, applied probability, and machine learning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Sloan Nietert , Ziv Goldfeld

Multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) is a powerful framework for modeling interactions between multiple distributions, yet its applicability is bottlenecked by a high computational overhead. Entropic regularization provides computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dor Tsur , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Haim Permuter

In machine learning and computer graphics, a fundamental task is the approximation of a probability density function through a well-dispersed collection of samples. Providing a formal metric for measuring the distance between probability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Baptiste Genest , Nicolas Courty , David Coeurjolly

Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-13 François-Pierre Paty , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Marco Cuturi

The Sinkhorn--Knopp (SK) algorithm is a cornerstone method for matrix scaling and entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT). Despite its empirical efficiency, existing theoretical guarantees to achieve a target marginal accuracy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kun He

We present a new approach for Neural Optimal Transport (NOT) training procedure, capable of accurately and efficiently estimating optimal transportation plan via specific regularization on dual Kantorovich potentials. The main bottleneck of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Nazar Buzun , Maksim Bobrin , Dmitry V. Dylov

The objective in statistical Optimal Transport (OT) is to consistently estimate the optimal transport plan/map solely using samples from the given source and target marginal distributions. This work takes the novel approach of posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 J. Saketha Nath , Pratik Jawanpuria

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach

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

We establish weak limits for the empirical entropy regularized optimal transport cost, the expectation of the empirical plan and the conditional expectation. Our results require only uniform boundedness of the cost function and no…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Alberto González-Sanz , Shayan Hundrieser

The optimal transport problem for measures supported on non-Euclidean spaces has recently gained ample interest in diverse applications involving representation learning. In this paper, we focus on circular probability measures, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Rocio Diaz Martin , Ivan Medri , Yikun Bai , Xinran Liu , Kangbai Yan , Gustavo K. Rohde , Soheil Kolouri

The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem has recently been considered in various applications where the coupling needs to be \emph{sparse}, i.e., the density of the coupling needs to be zero for a large subset of the product…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Alejandro Garriz-Molina , Alberto González-Sanz , Gilles Mordant

We propose a novel neural algorithm for the fundamental problem of computing the entropic optimal transport (EOT) plan between continuous probability distributions which are accessible by samples. Our algorithm is based on the saddle point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Nikita Gushchin , Alexander Kolesov , Alexander Korotin , Dmitry Vetrov , Evgeny Burnaev

Current LLM alignment techniques use pairwise human preferences at a sample level, and as such, they do not imply an alignment on the distributional level. We propose in this paper Alignment via Optimal Transport (AOT), a novel method for…

Optimal transport (OT) provides effective tools for comparing and mapping probability measures. We propose to leverage the flexibility of neural networks to learn an approximate optimal transport map. More precisely, we present a new and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Florentin Coeurdoux , Nicolas Dobigeon , Pierre Chainais