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This paper improves the state-of-the-art rate of a first-order algorithm for solving entropy regularized optimal transport. The resulting rate for approximating the optimal transport (OT) has been improved from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yiling Luo , Yiling Xie , Xiaoming Huo

This investigation is motivated by the problem of optimal design of cooling elements in modern battery systems. We consider a simple model of two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction described by elliptic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Xiaohui Peng , Katsiaryna Niakhai , Bartosz Protas

Partial Optimal Transport (POT) addresses the problem of transporting only a fraction of the total mass between two distributions, making it suitable when marginals have unequal size or contain outliers. While Sinkhorn-based methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nghia Thu Truong , Qui Phu Pham , Quang Nguyen , Dung Luong , Mai Tran

We introduce an architecture for variational quantum algorithms that can be efficiently trained via parameter updates along exact geodesics on the Riemannian state manifold. This features a parameter-optimal circuit ansatz which supersedes…

We introduce a constrained optimal transport problem where origins $x$ can only be transported to destinations $y\geq x$. Our statistical motivation is to describe the sharp upper bound for the variance of the treatment effect $Y-X$ given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Marcel Nutz , Ruodu Wang

Despite the recent popularity of neural network-based solvers for optimal transport (OT), there is no standard quantitative way to evaluate their performance. In this paper, we address this issue for quadratic-cost transport --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Alexander Korotin , Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev

Optimal transport is a powerful framework for computing distances between probability distributions. We unify the two main approaches to optimal transport, namely Monge-Kantorovitch and Sinkhorn-Cuturi, into what we define as Tsallis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Boris Muzellec , Richard Nock , Giorgio Patrini , Frank Nielsen

We establish a theoretical link between the recently proposed "drifting" generative dynamics and gradient flows induced by the Sinkhorn divergence. In a particle discretization, the drift field admits a cross-minus-self decomposition: an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ping He , Om Khangaonkar , Hamed Pirsiavash , Yikun Bai , Soheil Kolouri

With the discovery of Wasserstein GANs, Optimal Transport (OT) has become a powerful tool for large-scale generative modeling tasks. In these tasks, OT cost is typically used as the loss for training GANs. In contrast to this approach, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Litu Rout , Alexander Korotin , Evgeny Burnaev

Sliced optimal transport, which is basically a Radon transform followed by one-dimensional optimal transport, became popular in various applications due to its efficient computation. In this paper, we deal with sliced optimal transport on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Michael Quellmalz , Léo Buecher , Gabriele Steidl

We introduce CO2, an efficient algorithm to produce convexly-weighted coresets with respect to generic smooth divergences. By employing a functional Taylor expansion, we show a local equivalence between sufficiently regular losses and their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-21 Alex Kokot , Alex Luedtke

Multimarginal Optimal Transport (MOT) has attracted significant interest due to applications in machine learning, statistics, and the sciences. However, in most applications, the success of MOT is severely limited by a lack of efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Jason M. Altschuler , Enric Boix-Adsera

In 2013, Cuturi [Cut13] introduced the Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling as a method to compute solutions to regularized optimal transport problems. In this paper, aiming at a better convergence rate for a high accuracy solution, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Jingbang Chen , Li Chen , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Arvind Ramaswami

The Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem involves optimizing with respect to a given a cost function. Uniqueness is a fundamental open question about which little is known when the cost function is smooth and the landscapes containing…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Najma Ahmad , Hwa Kil Kim , Robert J. McCann

Combining different models is a widely used paradigm in machine learning applications. While the most common approach is to form an ensemble of models and average their individual predictions, this approach is often rendered infeasible by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sidak Pal Singh , Martin Jaggi

Kernel-based optimal transport (OT) estimators offer an alternative, functional estimation procedure to address OT problems from samples. Recent works suggest that these estimators are more statistically efficient than plug-in (linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Tianyi Lin , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

We study the optimal transport problem for $d>2$ discrete measures. This is a linear programming problem on $d$-tensors. It gives a way to compute a "distance" between two sets of discrete measures. We introduce an entropic regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shmuel Friedland

Understanding the character of electronic excitations is important in computational and reaction mechanistic studies, but their classification from simulations remains an open problem. Distances based on optimal transport have proven very…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Annina Z. Lieberherr , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Klaas J. H. Giesbertz

It was recently shown that under smoothness conditions, the squared Wasserstein distance between two distributions could be efficiently computed with appealing statistical error upper bounds. However, rather than the distance itself, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-30 Boris Muzellec , Adrien Vacher , Francis Bach , François-Xavier Vialard , Alessandro Rudi

The Wasserstein distance from optimal mass transport (OMT) is a powerful mathematical tool with numerous applications that provides a natural measure of the distance between two probability distributions. Several methods to incorporate OMT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jung Hun Oh , Rena Elkin , Anish Kumar Simhal , Jiening Zhu , Joseph O Deasy , Allen Tannenbaum