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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

Optimal transport (OT) compares probability distributions by computing a meaningful alignment between their samples. CO-optimal transport (COOT) takes this comparison further by inferring an alignment between features as well. While this…

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

Optimal transport (OT) theory describes general principles to define and select, among many possible choices, the most efficient way to map a probability measure onto another. That theory has been mostly used to estimate, given a pair of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause , Marco Cuturi

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) extends classical optimal transport to measures with different total masses, but statistical guarantees for Monge-type estimation remain limited. We study unbalanced transport with quadratic cost and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Donlapark Ponnoprat , Noboru Isobe , Masaaki Imaizumi

Given samples from two joint distributions, we consider the problem of Optimal Transportation (OT) between them when conditioned on a common variable. We focus on the general setting where the conditioned variable may be continuous, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Piyushi Manupriya , Rachit Keerti Das , Sayantan Biswas , Saketha Nath Jagarlapudi

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.…

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

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

Learning a transport model that maps a source distribution to a target distribution is a canonical problem in machine learning, but scientific applications increasingly require models that can generalize to source and target distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nic Fishman , Gokul Gowri , Paolo L. B. Fischer , Marinka Zitnik , Omar Abudayyeh , Jonathan Gootenberg

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) provides a flexible way to match or compare nonnegative finite Radon measures. However, UOT requires a predefined ground transport cost, which may misrepresent the data's underlying geometry. Choosing such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-09 Emanuele Pardini , Katerina Papagiannouli

We investigate unpaired image inverse problems, a challenging setting where only independent, non-paired sets of noisy measurements and clean target signals are available for training. We propose a novel inverse problem solver based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Donggyu Lee , Taekyung Lee , Jaewoong Choi

Comparing unpaired samples of a distribution or population taken at different points in time is a fundamental task in many application domains where measuring populations is destructive and cannot be done repeatedly on the same sample, such…

Out-of-distribution (OOD) data poses serious challenges in deployed machine learning models as even subtle changes could incur significant performance drops. Being able to estimate a model's performance on test data is important in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yuzhe Lu , Zhenlin Wang , Runtian Zhai , Soheil Kolouri , Joseph Campbell , Katia Sycara

Minibatch optimal transport coupling straightens paths in unconditional flow matching. This leads to computationally less demanding inference as fewer integration steps and less complex numerical solvers can be employed when numerically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ho Kei Cheng , Alexander Schwing

We present a neural framework for learning conditional optimal transport (OT) maps between probability distributions. Our approach introduces a conditioning mechanism capable of processing both categorical and continuous conditioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Leonardo Chiani , Emanuele Borgonovo , Massimo Tavoni

In this article, we study unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) and establish a control-theoretic dynamical extension, which we call the unbalanced density control (UDC), for a class of Gaussian reference measures. In the static setting, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

This paper addresses the problem of Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) in which the marginal conditions are relaxed (using weighted penalties in lieu of equality) and no additional regularization is enforced on the OT plan. In this context,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Laetitia Chapel , Rémi Flamary , Haoran Wu , Cédric Févotte , Gilles Gasso

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

The Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that connects two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. Finding such a transport map has diverse applications in machine learning, such as generative modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi
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