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Keegan Yao

3 accepted papers

2026

A Scalable Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for $W_p$ Optimal Transport

ICLR 2026poster

Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space and let $\mu,\nu$ be discrete distributions supported on finite point sets $A,B \subseteq X$. For any $p \in [1,\infty]$, the $W_p$-distance between $\mu$ and $\nu$, $W_p(\mu, \nu)$, is defined as the $p$-th root of the minimum cost of transporting the mass from $\mu$ t…

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2025

Efficient Algorithms for Robust and Partial Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport

NeurIPS 2025poster

The sensitivity of optimal transport (OT) to noise has motivated the study of robust variants. In this paper, we study two such formulations of semi-discrete OT in $\mathbb{R}^d$: (i) the $\alpha$-optimal partial transport, which minimizes the cost of transporting a mass of $\alpha$; and (ii) the $\…

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2024

A Combinatorial Algorithm for the Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport Problem

NeurIPS 2024poster

Optimal Transport (OT, also known as the Wasserstein distance) is a popular metric for comparing probability distributions and has been successfully used in many machine-learning applications. In the semi-discrete $2$-Wasserstein problem, we wish to compute the cheapest way to transport all the mass…

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