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In this note, we derive upper-bounds on the statistical estimation rates of unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) maps for the quadratic cost. Our work relies on the stability of the semi-dual formulation of optimal transport (OT) extended to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Adrien Vacher , François-Xavier Vialard

Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) aligns metric measure spaces by matching their within-domain relational structures, but large-scale GWOT remains challenging because its objective is nonconvex and projection onto the transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ling Liang , Lei Yang

Reconstructing dynamics using samples from sparsely time-resolved snapshots is an important problem in both natural sciences and machine learning. Here, we introduce a new deep learning approach for solving regularized unbalanced optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhenyi Zhang , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

Aligning EM density maps and fitting atomic models are essential steps in single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), with recent methods leveraging various algorithms and machine learning tools. As aligning maps remains…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-03 Aryan Tajmir Riahi , Chenwei Zhang , James Chen , Anne Condon , Khanh Dao Duc

Aligning electron density maps from Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a first key step for studying multiple conformations of a biomolecule. As this step remains costly and challenging, with standard alignment tools being…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-19 A. Tajmir Riahi , G. Woollard , F. Poitevin , A. Condon , K. Dao Duc

We consider a Beckmann formulation of an unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. The $\Gamma$-convergence of this formulation of UOT to the corresponding optimal transport (OT) problem is established as the balancing parameter $\alpha$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Zhe Xiong , Lei Li , Ya-Nan Zhu , Xiaoqun Zhang

Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. In this regard, OT between tractable prior distribution and data has been utilized for generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

This paper addresses the problem of estimating entropy-regularized optimal transport (EOT) maps with squared-Euclidean cost between source and target measures that are subGaussian. In the case that the target measure is compactly supported…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Matthew Werenski , James M. Murphy , Shuchin Aeron

We statistically analyze empirical plug-in estimators for unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) formalisms, focusing on the Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance, between general intensity measures based on observations from spatio-temporal point…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Marina Struleva , Shayan Hundrieser , Dominic Schuhmacher , Axel Munk

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) has been widely used as a fundamental tool in many application domains, where it often dominates the application running time. While many researchers have proposed various optimizations for UOT, few have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chengyu Sun , Jinyu Hu , Hong Jiang

We develop a mathematical theory of entropic regularisation of unbalanced optimal transport problems. Focusing on static formulation and relying on the formalism developed for the unregularised case, we show that unbalanced optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Maciej Buze , Manh Hong Duong

This article presents a new class of distances between arbitrary nonnegative Radon measures inspired by optimal transport. These distances are defined by two equivalent alternative formulations: (i) a dynamic formulation defining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

Recently, the Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport (GWOT) problem has attracted the special attention of the ML community. In this problem, given two distributions supported on two (possibly different) spaces, one has to find the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xavier Aramayo Carrasco , Maksim Nekrashevich , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev , Alexander Korotin

In optimal transport (OT), a Monge map is known as a mapping that transports a source distribution to a target distribution in the most cost-efficient way. Recently, multiple neural estimators for Monge maps have been developed and applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Luca Eyring , Dominik Klein , Théo Uscidda , Giovanni Palla , Niki Kilbertus , Zeynep Akata , Fabian Theis

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

While the continuous Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) field has been actively developing in recent years, it became evident that the classic EOT problem is prone to different issues like the sensitivity to outliers and imbalance of classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Milena Gazdieva , Arip Asadulaev , Alexander Korotin , Evgeny Burnaev

Many biological systems are observed through heterogeneous modalities, requiring transport models that couple dynamics across spaces while allowing mass variation. To address this challenge, we introduce Unbalanced Synchronized Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zixuan Cang , Jingfeng Wang , Xiaoqi Wei , Yanxiang Zhao

Learned Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines offer powerful end-to-end performance but are critically dependent on large-scale paired raw-to-sRGB datasets. This reliance on costly-to-acquire paired data remains a significant bottleneck.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Georgy Perevozchikov , Nancy Mehta , Egor Ershov , Radu Timofte

Single-cell genomics has significantly advanced our understanding of cellular behavior, catalyzing innovations in treatments and precision medicine. However, single-cell sequencing technologies are inherently destructive and can only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-08 Dominik Klein , Théo Uscidda , Fabian Theis , Marco Cuturi

In this paper, we solve unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem on surfaces represented by point clouds. Based on alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm, the original UOT problem can be solved by an iteration consists of…

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