arXiv:2606. 24987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimal transport (OT) has become a central language for comparing probability measures, but exact balanced OT is often both too rigid for data with missing, created, or destroyed mass and subject to unfavorable high-dimensional sample complexity.
arXiv:2609. 26647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study statistical rates in entropic optimal transport in the semi-discrete regime where one measure has finite support and the other is subGaussian.
arXiv:2608. 28262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entropic optimal transport (EOT) has been shown to offer a computationally tractable approximation to exact optimal transport.
arXiv:2602. 01179v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gradual domain adaptation (GDA) aims to mitigate domain shift by progressively adapting models from the source domain to the target domain via intermediate domains.
arXiv:2606. 30574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map.
arXiv:2505. 07124v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study inverse problems where an unknown potential is observed only through samples from the measure it induces by a convex variational principle.
Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distributions without explicitly targeting an optimal transport (OT) map. In applications like generative modeling, the transport cost itself is irrelevant, and this makes it natural to target maps which are more tractable from either a statistical or computational standpoint.
arXiv:2505. 06589v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern machine learning repeatedly manipulates probability measures: empirical datasets, generated samples, latent distributions, class-conditional laws, particle systems, weights of wide networks and attention patterns.
The paper introduces BROT, a two‑step approach for estimating optimal transport maps. First, it computes the unregularized OT plan, then fits a deep neural network to the resulting barycentric targets using least‑squares regression. The authors prove that, under standard regularity conditions, BROT achieves the minimax convergence rate when the true OT map is Lipschitz, and demonstrate its effectiveness on synthetic data, images, and downstream tasks such as single‑cell perturbation prediction and unsupervised domain adaptation.
arXiv:2602. 02241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem.
The paper introduces HELLO, a hierarchical solver for large‑scale discrete optimal transport that reduces the problem to edge localization guided by dual potentials. HELLO uses a coarse‑to‑fine initialization across a recursive subsampling hierarchy and a refinement step that inserts the largest dual violators until a KKT residual tolerance is met, achieving linear memory usage. Experiments show that HELLO outperforms strong baselines by an order of magnitude in runtime while attaining lower transport objectives, and it scales to over a million samples in high‑dimensional settings, supporting various OT variants.
arXiv:2606. 02515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimal transport (OT) provides a principled framework for mapping between probability distributions.
arXiv:2606. 04695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional optimal transport is seldom available in closed form.