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Optimal Transport has recently gained interest in machine learning for applications ranging from domain adaptation, sentence similarities to deep learning. Yet, its ability to capture frequently occurring structure beyond the "ground…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Stefanie Jegelka

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

We propose a scalable, distributed algorithm for the optimal transport of large-scale multi-agent systems. We formulate the problem as one of steering the collective towards a target probability measure while minimizing the total cost of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Vishaal Krishnan , Sonia Martínez

Optimal transport (OT) provides powerful tools for comparing probability measures in various types. The Wasserstein distance which arises naturally from the idea of OT is widely used in many machine learning applications. Unfortunately,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Shu Liu , Haodong Sun , Hongyuan Zha

Recently, Optimal Transport has been proposed as a probabilistic framework in Machine Learning for comparing and manipulating probability distributions. This is rooted in its rich history and theory, and has offered new solutions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma , Fred Ngolè Mboula , Antoine Souloumiac

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

Transmission System Operators routinely use transmission switching as a tool to manage congestion and ensure system security. Motivated by sub-transmission operations at RTE, this paper considers the Optimal Transmission Switching with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Benoît Jeanson , Mathieu Tanneau , Simon Tindemans

The optimization of low-thrust, multi-revolution orbit transfer trajectories is often regarded as a difficult problem in modern astrodynamics. In this paper, a flexible and computationally efficient approach is presented for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Mirko Leomanni , Gianni Bianchini , Andrea Garulli , Renato Quartullo

Computing optimal transport (OT) distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. In this paper, we study the problem of approximating the general OT distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhao Song , Tianyi Zhou

This paper presents a scalable solution with adjustable computation time for the joint problem of scheduling and assigning machines and transporters for missions that must be completed in a fixed order of operations across multiple stages.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Koresh Khateri , Giovanni Beltrame

Imbalanced data pose challenges for deep learning based classification models. One of the most widely-used approaches for tackling imbalanced data is re-weighting, where training samples are associated with different weights in the loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Dandan Guo , Zhuo Li , Meixi Zheng , He Zhao , Mingyuan Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

We introduce SceneTransporter, an end-to-end framework for structured 3D scene generation from a single image. While existing methods generate part-level 3D objects, they often fail to organize these parts into distinct instances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ling Wang , Hao-Xiang Guo , Xinzhou Wang , Fuchun Sun , Kai Sun , Pengkun Liu , Hang Xiao , Zhong Wang , Guangyuan Fu , Eric Li , Yang Liu , Yikai Wang

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool for measuring the distance between two defined probability distributions. In this paper, we develop a new manifold named the coupling matrix manifold (CMM), where each point on CMM can be regarded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Dai Shi , Junbin Gao , Xia Hong , S. T. Boris Choy , Zhiyong Wang

This paper serves as a user's guide to sampling strategies for sliced optimal transport. We provide reminders and additional regularity results on the Sliced Wasserstein distance. We detail the construction methods, generation time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Keanu Sisouk , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

This paper studies iterative schemes for measure transfer and approximation problems, which are defined through a slicing-and-matching procedure. Similar to the sliced Wasserstein distance, these schemes benefit from the availability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Shiying Li , Caroline Moosmueller , Yongzhe Wang

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

Inspired by the matching of supply to demand in logistical problems, the optimal transport (or Monge--Kantorovich) problem involves the matching of probability distributions defined over a geometric domain such as a surface or manifold. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Justin Solomon

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang

Clustering is a fundamental task in the computer vision and machine learning community. Although various methods have been proposed, the performance of existing approaches drops dramatically when handling incomplete high-dimensional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Mingjie Luo , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , Wenxuan Tu , Yi Zhang , Xifeng Guo , Sihang Zhou , En Zhu

Optimized data transfer services are highly demanded nowadays, due to the large amounts of data which are frequently being produced and accessed. In this paper we consider several data transfer service optimization problems (optimal server…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Ion Pargaru , Florin Ionescu , Cristina Teodora Andreica