Pacific Interdisciplinary hub on Optimal Transport | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

2021 — 2024

The Pacific Interdisciplinary hub on Optimal Transport (PIHOT) is a Collaborative Research Group examining the research and applications of Optimal Transportation across a wide audience of researchers, students, industry, policy makers and the general public.

The Kantorovich Initiative is a dedicated website to help foster a community around the topic of Optimal Transportation.

Detecting differences and building classifiers between distributions, given only finite samples, are important tasks in a number of scientific fields. Optimal transport (OT) has evolved as the most natural concept to measure the distance between...

Optimal transportation, at its core, is a powerful framework for obtaining structured yet general couplings between general probability measures based on matching underlying characteristics. This framework lends itself naturally to applications in...

Modern machine learning methods, in particular deep learning approaches, have enjoyed unparalleled success in a variety of challenging application fields like image recognition, medical image reconstruction, and natural language processing. While a...

Our introduction of the notion of a non-linear Kantorovich operator was motivated by the celebrated duality in the mass transport problem, hence the name. In retrospect, we realized that they -and their iterates- were omnipresent in several branches...

The sign test (Arbuthnott, 1710) and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test (Wilcoxon, 1945) are among the first examples of a nonparametric test. These procedures — based on signs, (absolute) ranks and signed-ranks — yield distribution-free tests for...

Please see the kickoff announcement for a full schedule and details of each talk.

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Brendan Pass

Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta

Young-Heon Kim

Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

Soumik Pal

Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington