In mathematics and economics, transportation theory or transport theory is a name given to the study of optimal transportation and allocation of resources. The problem was formalized by Gaspard Monge in 1781.

Seminal Papers

• Greenhorn Solver (NIPS’17)

• Wassersterin Loss (NIPS’15)

• Sinkhorn Distance (NIPS’15) NOTE : Especially important, which makes complexity of OT be reduced to near-linear order.

Applications

Multi-Instance Multi-Label Multi-Modal Learning

• M3 (KDD’18)

Label Distribution Learning

• LALOT (AAAI’18)

GAN

• WGAN (ICML’17)

Transfer Learning

• OT for Domain Adaptation (TPAMI’15)

Metric Learning

• WMD(ICML’15)

• S-WMD(NIPS’16