Computational optimal transport: With applications to data science

G Peyré, M Cuturi - Foundations and Trends® in Machine …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Optimal transport (OT) theory can be informally described using the words of the French
mathematician Gaspard Monge (1746–1818): A worker with a shovel in hand has to move a …

Maximum flow and minimum-cost flow in almost-linear time

L Chen, R Kyng, YP Liu, R Peng… - 2022 IEEE 63rd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We give an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on
directed graphs with m edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and …

Distribution matching for crowd counting

B Wang, H Liu, D Samaras… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In crowd counting, each training image contains multiple people, where each person is
annotated by a dot. Existing crowd counting methods need to use a Gaussian to smooth …

Optimal transport for treatment effect estimation

H Wang, J Fan, Z Chen, H Li, W Liu… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to
treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mainly mitigate this issue by aligning different …

Diffusion bridge mixture transports, Schrödinger bridge problems and generative modeling

S Peluchetti - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2023 - jmlr.org
The dynamic Schrödinger bridge problem seeks a stochastic process that defines a
transport between two target probability measures, while optimally satisfying the criteria of …

Faster Wasserstein distance estimation with the Sinkhorn divergence

L Chizat, P Roussillon, F Léger… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The squared Wasserstein distance is a natural quantity to compare probability distributions
in a non-parametric setting. This quantity is usually estimated with the plug-in estimator …

Projection‐based techniques for high‐dimensional optimal transport problems

J Zhang, P Ma, W Zhong, C Meng - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optimal transport (OT) methods seek a transformation map (or plan) between two probability
measures, such that the transformation has the minimum transportation cost. Such a …

On efficient optimal transport: An analysis of greedy and accelerated mirror descent algorithms

T Lin, N Ho, M Jordan - International Conference on …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We provide theoretical analyses for two algorithms that solve the regularized optimal
transport (OT) problem between two discrete probability measures with at most $ n $ atoms …

Unified mask embedding and correspondence learning for self-supervised video segmentation

L Li, W Wang, T Zhou, J Li… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning of video object segmentation. We
develop a unified framework which simultaneously models cross-frame dense …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical optimal transport

S Chewi, J Niles-Weed, P Rigollet - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.18163, 2024 - arxiv.org
Statistical Optimal Transport arXiv:2407.18163v2 [math.ST] 7 Nov 2024 Page 1 Statistical
Optimal Transport Sinho Chewi Yale Jonathan Niles-Weed NYU Philippe Rigollet MIT …