New method designs fairer transport plans with uncertainty.
problem Designing fair and balanced mass transport plans.
method Hierarchical fully probabilistic design (HFPD) for transport plans.
result Optimal hyperprior for transport plans with uncertain marginals.
NOT learns optimal transport plans, kernel costs improve performance.
problem NOT algorithm learns non-optimal plans with weak quadratic costs.
method Introduced kernel weak quadratic costs to improve NOT's performance.
result Kernel costs provide improved theoretical and practical guarantees.
Sliced-regularized OT improves transport plan accuracy.
problem Optimal transport (OT) approximation accuracy.
method Sliced-regularized optimal transport (SROT) formulation.
result SROT yields more accurate approximations of exact OT than entropic OT.
The paper examines properties of GW optimal transport plans, showing they can be sparse and permutation-supported.
problem Properties of Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport plans.
method Exploration of sparsity, permutation support, and cyclical monotonicity properties.
result GW optimal plans can be sparse and permutation-supported under certain conditions.
Bayesian approach to optimal transport with stochastic costs.
problem Inferring optimal transport plans with uncertain costs.
method Bayesian framework and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling.
result Inference of optimal transport plans under stochastic cost functions.
Study shows how optimal transport behaves in higher dimensions.
problem Characterizing optimal transport in higher dimensions with Euclidean distance.
method Investigates the small regularization limit of entropic optimal transport.
result The limiting transport plan is supported on transport rays and uniquely minimizes a relative entropy functional.
Deep learning improves trip prediction accuracy in transportation planning.
problem Traditional models fail to accurately predict person and vehicle trips due to complexity and dynamics.
method Developed and trained a deep learning model using NHTS data.
result Deep learning model achieved 98% accuracy for person trip prediction and 96% for vehicle trip estimation.
Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework called SPOT (Scalable Push-forward of Optimal Transport). Specifically, we approxima…
Under mild regularity assumptions, the transport problem is stable in the following sense: if a sequence of optimal transport plans π1,π2,… converges weakly to a transport plan π, then π is also optimal (between its marginals). Alfonsi, Corbetta and Jourdain asked whether the same property is true for th…
We give an alternative proof for the fact that in n-dimensional Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below there exists a unique optimal transport plan from any purely (n−1)-unrectifiable starting measure, and that this plan is induced by an optimal map.
Some optimization or equilibrium problems involving somehow the concept of optimal transport are presented in these notes, mainly devoted to applications to economic and game theory settings. A variant model of transport, taking into account traffic congestion effects is the first topic, and it shows various links with…
In this paper we apply change of numeraire techniques to the optimal transport approach for computing model-free prices of derivatives in a two periods model. In particular, we consider the optimal transport plan constructed in \cite{HobsonKlimmek2013} as well as the one introduced in \cite{BeiglJuil} and further studi…
We tackle the challenge of disentangled representation learning in generative adversarial networks (GANs) from the perspective of regularized optimal transport (OT). Specifically, a smoothed OT loss gives rise to an implicit transportation plan between the latent space and the data space. Based on this theoretical obse…
Novel approach to OT using kernel mean embeddings controls overfitting and achieves dimension-free sample complexity.
problem Consistently estimate optimal transport plan from samples.
method Pose OT as learning kernel mean embedding, employ MMD regularization.
result ε-optimal recovery of transport plan and map with dimension-free sample complexity.
Entropic regularization is quickly emerging as a new standard in optimal transport (OT). It enables to cast the OT computation as a differentiable and unconstrained convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved using the Sinkhorn algorithm. However, entropy keeps the transportation plan strictly positive…
Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When the entropy regularization is added to the problem, the transportation plan can be…
Enhanced route planning with probabilistic prediction and uncertainty sets.
problem Improving route planning reliability under uncertainty.
method CQR-GAE model integrating conformal prediction and uncertainty sets.
result Significantly outperforms baseline methods in real-world traffic scenarios.
New approach to sparse optimal transport for matching tokens with experts.
problem Sparse matching of tokens with experts in neural networks.
method Sparsity-constrained optimal transport with cardinality constraints.
result Solves nonconvex cardinality constraints with gradient methods.
Extends subspace detour method to Gromov-Wasserstein problem.
problem Matching shapes using Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
method Project measures onto a subspace, then compute optimal transport plan.
result Connections with Knothe-Rosenblatt rearrangement.
Efficiently predicts optimal transport plans using sliced potentials.
problem Predicting optimal transport plans across multiple measure pairs efficiently.
method Regression-based and objective-based amortization strategies using sliced optimal transport potentials.
result Efficient and accurate prediction of optimal transport plans for various tasks.
New algorithm ensures fair matching in resource allocation.
problem Ensuring fairness in matching algorithms for scarce resources.
method Introduces a modified Sinkhorn algorithm and two relaxation strategies for group fairness in Optimal Transport.
result Demonstrates improved matching quality and fairness trade-off.
New framework formalizes estimating valid transport maps, revealing their statistical limits.
problem Estimating valid transport maps in generative modeling.
method Formalized a minimax framework for estimating valid transport maps.
result Estimating any valid transport map is as hard as estimating the optimal transport map under standard stability assumptions.
Characterizes Forman curvature bounds and proves curvature equivalence.
problem Characterize Forman curvature bounds and prove curvature equivalence.
method Contractivity of the Hodge Laplacian semigroup, translation between 2-cells and transport plans.
result Ollivier and Forman curvature coincide on edges when maximizing Forman curvature.
Extends martingale Schrödinger bridge to arbitrary dimensions and characterizes it.
problem Tackles the martingale Schrödinger bridge in arbitrary dimensions.
method Identifies continuous-time counterpart and relates to variational problems.
result Continuous martingale Schrödinger bridge coincides with Föllmer martingale in irreducible case.
We study a single-period optimal transport problem on R2 with a covariance-type cost function c(x,y)=(x1−y1)(x2−y2) and a backward martingale constraint. We show that a transport plan γ is optimal if and only if there is a maximal monotone set G that supports the x-marginal of γ and such tha…
Computing optimal transport (OT) between measures in high dimensions is doomed by the curse of dimensionality. A popular approach to avoid this curse is to project input measures on lower-dimensional subspaces (1D lines in the case of sliced Wasserstein distances), solve the OT problem between these reduced measures, a…
Proposes FROT for high-dimensional data, avoiding curse of dimensionality.
problem High-dimensional data challenges in optimal transport.
method Feature selection and min-max optimization for robust transport plan.
result FROT achieves state-of-the-art performance in semantic correspondence.
A new method for fast optimal transport using sliced Wasserstein generalized geodesics.
problem Computing optimal transport distances efficiently and accurately.
method Proposes a new proxy of squared Wasserstein distance based on one-dimensional projections.
result min-SWGG is an upper bound of Wasserstein distance with similar computational complexity.
New optimal transport method handles mass creation and destruction.
problem Optimal re-balancing of portfolios with mass creation or destruction.
method Formalizes an optimal transport problem with mass-change factor.
result Existence of optimal transport plans and maps established.
UNOT solves optimal transport problems efficiently using neural networks.
problem Computational expense in solving optimal transport problems.
method UNOT (Universal Neural Optimal Transport) uses Fourier Neural Operators to predict OT distances and plans accurately and efficiently.
result UNOT achieves up to 7.4x speedup over the Sinkhorn algorithm while maintaining accuracy.
The paper analyzes stability and convergence rates of entropic and Sinkhorn potentials.
problem Stability and convergence rates of entropic and Sinkhorn potentials.
method Semiconcavity properties of entropic potentials and Schrödinger bridges.
result Exponential convergence rates for gradient and Hessian of Sinkhorn iterates.
We study the optimal transport between two probability measures on the real line, where the transport plans are laws of one-step martingales. A quasi-sure formulation of the dual problem is introduced and shown to yield a complete duality theory for general marginals and measurable reward (cost) functions: absence of a…
This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex transport constraints in addition to having given initial and terminal marginals. Sev…
We prove that in metric measure spaces where the entropy functional is K-convex along every Wasserstein geodesic any optimal transport between two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments lives on a non-branching set of geodesics. As a corollary we obtain that in these spaces there exists only one opti…
This paper presents a novel two-step approach for the fundamental problem of learning an optimal map from one distribution to another. First, we learn an optimal transport (OT) plan, which can be thought as a one-to-many map between the two distributions. To that end, we propose a stochastic dual approach of regularize…
Study improves traffic prediction intervals for minor roads.
problem Uncertainty in traffic data for underrepresented minor roads.
method Quantile Random Forest with PCA for interval prediction.
result Achieved 88.22% interval coverage and Winkler Score of 7,468.47.
We explore the use of deep learning and deep reinforcement learning for optimization problems in transportation. Many transportation system analysis tasks are formulated as an optimization problem - such as optimal control problems in intelligent transportation systems and long term urban planning. Often transportation…
Efficiently estimates optimal transport maps with rigorous guarantees.
problem Estimating optimal transport maps between distributions efficiently.
method Entropic version of Brenier's theorem, Sinkhorn's algorithm.
result Estimator is parallelizable and efficient for massive data sets.
We propose a new method to estimate Wasserstein distances and optimal transport plans between two probability distributions from samples in high dimension. Unlike plug-in rules that simply replace the true distributions by their empirical counterparts, our method promotes couplings with low transport rank, a new struct…
We propose an SDP relaxation for the Gromov-Wasserstein distance, providing globally optimal solutions.
problem Matching objects between incomparable spaces using the Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
method Semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation of the GW distance.
result The SDP relaxation provides globally optimal solutions for the GW distance in some instances.
New methods estimate transport-growth pairs in unbalanced optimal transport.
problem Statistical guarantees for Monge-type estimation in unbalanced optimal transport remain limited.
method Developed two estimators for transport-growth pairs under different setups.
result Achieved minimax optimal rate for estimation of transport-growth pairs.
COPT optimizes graph distances via simultaneous optimal transport.
problem Learning graph representations unsupervisedly.
method Simultaneous optimization of dual transport plans between vertices and graph signals.
result COPT preserves spectral information and outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Develop a framework for barycentric projections of optimal transport plans on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Optimal transport couplings are probabilistic objects, while many learning pipelines require deterministic maps.
method Develop a framework for barycentric projections of transport couplings on Riemannian manifolds.
result The intrinsic projection maps each source point to the conditional Fréchet mean of its destination law and is shown to be the best deterministic representative under squared geodesic loss.
We introduce a new framework for optimal transport using Schatten-p regularization to recover low-rank structures.
problem Optimal transport problems with low-rank structure recovery.
method Schatten-p norm regularization to promote low-rank structure in transport maps and plans.
result Unified convex programs for low-rank structure recovery with theoretical guarantees and efficient algorithms.
A new method optimizes slicing directions for SW distances to improve high-dimensional probability measure comparison.
problem Challenging identification of informative slicing directions for SW distances.
method Constrained learning approach to optimize slicing directions, using continuous relaxations and gradient-based primal-dual approach.
result Demonstrated efficacy in learning more informative slicing directions on various high-dimensional data.
A new model corrects inhomogeneity in Optimal Transport with Boundary.
problem Inhomogeneity in UROT models for Optimal Transport with Boundary.
method Proposed a modified entropic regularization term to make UROT models homogeneous.
result Homogeneous UROT model preserves properties of standard UROT while correcting inhomogeneity.
Optimal transport adapted for contaminated probabilities, showing equivalence under specific conditions.
problem Adapting optimal transport for ε-contaminated sets. method Generalized optimal transport problems with lower probabilities, showing equivalence under ε-contaminations. result Monge's and Kantorovich's problems coincide under ε-contaminated sets, but not always. Novel proof shows continuity of optimal transport feasible set mapping.
problem Continuity of feasible set mapping in optimal transport problems.
method Presented a novel and shorter proof of continuity.
result Established continuity of the feasible set mapping.