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Breakthroughs in aerodynamic optimization have made it possible to develop efficient modes of transport with lesser exploitation of valuable resources. This makes it crucial for technical professionals such as engineers and scientists to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-09 Paras Singh , Harshit Gupta , Ojas Vinayak , Aryan Tyagi

Variational Auto-Encoders enforce their learned intermediate latent-space data distribution to be a simple distribution, such as an isotropic Gaussian. However, this causes the posterior collapse problem and loses manifold structure which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Huidong Liu , Yang Guo , Na Lei , Zhixin Shu , Shing-Tung Yau , Dimitris Samaras , Xianfeng Gu

The optimal transport (OT) map offers the most economical way to transfer one probability measure distribution to another. Classical OT theory does not involve a discussion of preserving topological connections and orientations in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yuping Lv , Qi Zhao , Xuebin Chang , Wei Zeng

This paper proposes a new 3D molecule generation framework, called GOAT, for fast and effective 3D molecule generation based on the flow-matching optimal transport objective. Specifically, we formulate a geometric transport formula for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haokai Hong , Wanyu Lin , Kay Chen Tan

Feed-forward surround-view autonomous driving scene reconstruction offers fast, generalizable inference ability, which faces the core challenge of ensuring generalization while elevating novel view quality. Due to the surround-view with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Junhong Lin , Kangli Wang , Shunzhou Wang , Songlin Fan , Ge Li , Wei Gao

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

Recently, the pretrain-finetuning paradigm has attracted tons of attention in graph learning community due to its power of alleviating the lack of labels problem in many real-world applications. Current studies use existing techniques, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jiying Zhang , Xi Xiao , Long-Kai Huang , Yu Rong , Yatao Bian

We introduce a simple, accurate, and extremely efficient method for numerically solving the multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT) problems arising in density functional theory. The method relies on (i) the sparsity of optimal plans [for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Gero Friesecke , Andreas S. Schulz , Daniela Vögler

Real-world image super-resolution (SR) tasks often do not have paired datasets, which limits the application of supervised techniques. As a result, the tasks are usually approached by unpaired techniques based on Generative Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Milena Gazdieva , Petr Mokrov , Litu Rout , Alexander Korotin , Andrey Kravchenko , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev

We tackle the challenge of disentangled representation learning in generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of regularized optimal transport (OT). Specifically, a smoothed OT loss gives rise to an implicit transportation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Pierre Bréchet , Tao Wu , Thomas Möllenhoff , Daniel Cremers

The efficiency of multi-agent systems driven by large language models (LLMs) largely hinges on their communication topology. However, designing an optimal topology is a non-trivial challenge, as it requires balancing competing objectives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Eric Hanchen Jiang , Mengting Li , Guancheng Wan , Sophia Yin , Yuchen Wu , Xiao Liang , Xinfeng Li , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Ying Nian Wu

Topology optimization(TO) is widely used in engineering because of its ability to save material and optimize structural performance. Although prior work has explored 2D human-centered design tool for TO, the results are often limited in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shuyue Feng , Cedric Caremel , Yoshihiro Kawahara

Optimal transport (OT) has recently found widespread interest in machine learning. It allows to define novel distances between probability measures, which have shown promise in several applications. In this work, we discuss how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Bamdev Mishra , N T V Satyadev , Hiroyuki Kasai , Pratik Jawanpuria

This paper investigates the generative designing of a bracket that aids in the rotation of a linkage mounted on it with a revolute joint. Generative design is a term that is generally used when we care about weight reduction and performance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Bashu Aman

Computing optimal transport (OT) for general high-dimensional data has been a long-standing challenge. Despite much progress, most of the efforts including neural network methods have been focused on the static formulation of the OT…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

General object composition (GOC) aims to seamlessly integrate a target object into a background scene with desired geometric properties, while simultaneously preserving its fine-grained appearance details. Recent approaches derive semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jianman Lin , Haojie Li , Chunmei Qing , Zhijing Yang , Liang Lin , Tianshui Chen

Sliced Optimal Transport (SOT) is a rapidly developing branch of optimal transport (OT) that exploits the tractability of one-dimensional OT problems. By combining tools from OT, integral geometry, and computational statistics, SOT enables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Khai Nguyen

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are the state of the art in generative modeling. Unfortunately, most GAN methods are susceptible to mode collapse, meaning that they tend to capture only a subset of the modes of the true distribution.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-10 Luca Ambrogioni , Umut Güçlü , Marcel van Gerven

Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yujia Xie , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

From ecology to atmospheric sciences, many academic disciplines deal with data characterized by intricate spatio-temporal complexities, the modeling of which often requires specialized approaches. Generative models of these data are of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Konstantin Klemmer , Tianlin Xu , Beatrice Acciaio , Daniel B. Neill