Computational optimal transport: Complexity by accelerated gradient descent is better than by Sinkhorn's algorithm

P Dvurechensky, A Gasnikov… - … conference on machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We analyze two algorithms for approximating the general optimal transport (OT) distance
between two discrete distributions of size $ n $, up to accuracy $\varepsilon $. For the first …

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 …

On the complexity of approximating Wasserstein barycenters

A Kroshnin, N Tupitsa, D Dvinskikh… - International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the complexity of approximating the Wasserstein barycenter of $ m $ discrete
measures, or histograms of size $ n $, by contrasting two alternative approaches that use …

A direct tilde {O}(1/epsilon) iteration parallel algorithm for optimal transport

A Jambulapati, A Sidford, K Tian - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Optimal transportation, or computing the Wasserstein or``earth mover's''distance between
two $ n $-dimensional distributions, is a fundamental primitive which arises in many learning …

Multi-target association algorithm of AIS-radar tracks using graph matching-based deep neural network

Y Yang, F Yang, L Sun, T Xiang, P Lv - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Automatic Identification System (AIS) and radar track association is a challenging
subject in dense scenes in which there are some undesirable factors, such as multiple …

Towards optimal running times for optimal transport

J Blanchet, A Jambulapati, C Kent, A Sidford - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
In this work, we provide faster algorithms for approximating the optimal transport distance,
eg earth mover's distance, between two discrete probability distributions $\mu,\nu\in\Delta^ n …

LinSATNet: the positive linear satisfiability neural networks

R Wang, Y Zhang, Z Guo, T Chen… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Encoding constraints into neural networks is attractive. This paper studies how to introduce
the popular positive linear satisfiability to neural networks. We propose the first differentiable …

Approximating optimal transport with linear programs

K Quanrud - arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05957, 2018 - arxiv.org
arXiv:1810.05957v2 [cs.DS] 21 Oct 2018 Page 1 arXiv:1810.05957v2 [cs.DS] 21 Oct 2018
Approximating optimal transport with linear programs Kent Quanrud∗ October 23, 2018 Abstract …

Biwhitening reveals the rank of a count matrix

B Landa, TTCK Zhang, Y Kluger - SIAM journal on mathematics of data …, 2022 - SIAM
Estimating the rank of a corrupted data matrix is an important task in data analysis, most
notably for choosing the number of components in principal component analysis. Significant …

A gradient descent perspective on Sinkhorn

F Léger - Applied Mathematics & Optimization, 2021 - Springer
We present a new perspective on the popular Sinkhorn algorithm, showing that it can be
seen as a Bregman gradient descent (mirror descent) of a relative entropy (Kullback–Leibler …