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Efficient computation of the optimal transport distance between two distributions serves as an algorithm subroutine that empowers various applications. This paper develops a scalable first-order optimization-based method that computes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gen Li , Yanxi Chen , Yu Huang , Yuejie Chi , H. Vincent Poor , Yuxin Chen

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

Origin-Destination (OD) flow, as an abstract representation of the object`s movement or interaction, has been used to reveal the urban mobility and human-land interaction pattern. As an important spatial analysis approach, the clustering…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Mengyuan Fang , Luliang Tang , Zihan Kan , Xue Yang , Tao Pei , Qingquan Li , Chaokui Li

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

In many applications of optimal transport (OT), the object of primary interest is the optimal transport map. This map rearranges mass from one probability distribution to another in the most efficient way possible by minimizing a specified…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Tudor Manole , Larry Wasserman

In this paper, we reveal the relationship between entropy rate and the congestion in complex network and solve it analytically for special cases. Finding maximizing entropy rate will lead to an improvement of traffic efficiency, we propose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-15 Yuhang Fan , Hanyuan Liu , Shibo He

This paper presents a novel method for transforming large-scale historical expressway route search records into a three-dimensional (3D) Origin-Destination (OD) map, enabling data compression, efficient spatiotemporal sampling and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hangli Ge , Dizhi Huang , Xiaojie Yang , Lifeng Lin , Kazuma Hatano , Takeshi Kawasaki , Noboru Koshizuka

Optimal transport (OT) barycenters are a mathematically grounded way of averaging probability distributions while capturing their geometric properties. In short, the barycenter task is to take the average of a collection of probability…

The estimation of the number of passengers with the identical journey is a common problem for public transport authorities. This problem is also known as the Origin- Destination estimation (OD) problem and it has been widely studied for the…

Applications · Statistics 2013-05-31 Adrien Ickowicz , Ross Sparks

Optimization of ship routing depends on several parameters, like ship and cargo characteristics, environmental factors, topography, international navigation rules, crew comfort etc. The complex nature of the problem leads to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 O. T. Kosmas , D. S. Vlachos

In this paper we propose a new method to predict the final destination of vehicle trips based on their initial partial trajectories. We first review how we obtained clustering of trajectories that describes user behaviour. Then, we explain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-11 Philippe C. Besse , Brendan Guillouet , Jean-Michel Loubes , Francois Royer

Optimal transport (OT) and unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) are central in many machine learning, statistics and engineering applications. 1D OT is easily solved, with complexity O(n log n), but no efficient algorithm was known for 1D…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Gabriel Gouvine

Routing configurations of a network should constantly adapt to traffic variations to achieve good network performance. Adaptive routing faces two main challenges: 1) how to accurately measure/estimate time-varying traffic matrices? 2) how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhun Yin , Xiaotian Li , Lifan Mei , Yong Liu , Zhong-Ping Jiang

We present a Cross-Entropy based population Monte Carlo algorithm. This methods stands apart from previous work in that we are not optimizing a mixture distribution. Instead, we leverage deterministic mixture weights and optimize the…

Computation · Statistics 2022-02-09 Caleb Miller , Jem N. Corcoran , Michael D. Schneider

Network traffic matrix estimation is an ill-posed linear inverse problem: it requires to estimate the unobservable origin destination traffic flows, X, given the observable link traffic flows, Y, and a binary routing matrix, A, which are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Syed Muhammad Atif , Nicolas Gillis , Sameer Qazi , Imran Naseem

Optimal Transport (OT) theory has seen an increasing amount of attention from the computer science community due to its potency and relevance in modeling and machine learning. It introduces means that serve as powerful ways to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Luis Caicedo Torres , Luiz Manella Pereira , M. Hadi Amini

Spurred by the growth of transportation network companies and increasing data capabilities, vehicle routing and ride-matching algorithms can improve the efficiency of private transportation services. However, existing routing solutions do…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Ian Schneider , Jun Jie Joseph Kuan , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther Dahleh

A comprehensive understanding of human mobility patterns in urban areas is essential for urban development and transportation planning. In this study, we create entropy-based measurements to capture the geographical distribution diversity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-18 Yuqin Jiang , Yihong Yuan , Su Yeon Han

Entropic optimal transport (EOT) presents an effective and computationally viable alternative to unregularized optimal transport (OT), offering diverse applications for large-scale data analysis. In this work, we derive novel statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Michel Groppe , Shayan Hundrieser

We propose a novel approach based on optimal transport (OT) for tackling the problem of highly mixed data in blind hyperspectral unmixing. Our method constrains the distribution of the estimated abundance matrix to resemble a targeted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 D. Doutsas , B. Figliuzzi