Scalable optimal transport methods in machine learning: A contemporary survey

A Khamis, R Tsuchida, M Tarek… - IEEE transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal Transport (OT) is a mathematical framework that first emerged in the eighteenth
century and has led to a plethora of methods for answering many theoretical and applied …

Asymptotics for semidiscrete entropic optimal transport

JM Altschuler, J Niles-Weed, AJ Stromme - SIAM Journal on Mathematical …, 2022 - SIAM
We compute exact second-order asymptotics for the cost of an optimal solution to the
entropic optimal transport problem in the continuous-to-discrete, or semidiscrete, setting. In …

On the efficiency of entropic regularized algorithms for optimal transport

T Lin, N Ho, MI Jordan - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2022 - jmlr.org
We present several new complexity results for the entropic regularized algorithms that
approximately solve the optimal transport (OT) problem between two discrete probability …

On unbalanced optimal transport: Gradient methods, sparsity and approximation error

QM Nguyen, HH Nguyen, Y Zhou… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
We study the Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) between two measures of possibly
different masses with at most n components, where the marginal constraints of standard …

Application of Hungarian algorithm for assignment problem

VK Shopov, VD Markova - 2021 International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we consider the application of the Hungarian algorithm for allocating positions
in robotic formations. Two modifications of the Hungarian algorithm are compared. The time …

Towards optimal running times for optimal transport

J Blanchet, A Jambulapati, C Kent, A Sidford - Operations Research Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
We provide faster algorithms for approximating the optimal transport distance, eg earth
mover's distance, between two discrete probability distributions on n elements. We present …

Stochastic saddle-point optimization for the Wasserstein barycenter problem

D Tiapkin, A Gasnikov, P Dvurechensky - Optimization Letters, 2022 - Springer
We consider the population Wasserstein barycenter problem for random probability
measures supported on a finite set of points and generated by an online stream of data. This …

Convergence proof for the GenCol algorithm in the case of two-marginal optimal transport

G Friesecke, M Penka - Mathematics of Computation, 2025 - ams.org
The recently introduced Genetic Column Generation (GenCol) algorithm has been
numerically observed to efficiently and accurately compute high-dimensional optimal …

From an interior point to a corner point: smart crossover

D Ge, C Wang, Z **ong, Y Ye - arxiv preprint arxiv:2102.09420, 2021 - arxiv.org
Identifying optimal basic feasible solutions to linear programming problems is a critical task
for mixed integer programming and other applications. The crossover method, which aims at …

The double regularization method for capacity constrained optimal transport

T Wu, Q Cheng, Z Wang, C Zhang, B Bai… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Capacity constrained optimal transport is a variant of optimal transport, which adds extra
constraints on the set of feasible couplings in the original optimal transport problem to limit …