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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: <b style="font-weight:400"> </b> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Friday, May 18th </span><span 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class="gmail-m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767m_3439038168464703931gmail-m_7186661958014209082gmail-m_-4881373329697077770gmail-m_-2141744242196855365gmail-m_1163836401633243615gmail-m_2148237477730121328gmail-m_-6691959996525573090gmail-m_1517372298344856049gmail-m_491069367152086750gmail-m_-8327640324523575189gmail-m_2420618808463760418gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-m_8421504075585210435gmail-m_3262824545120381495gmail-m_-1141671822915777344gmail-m_-7219251726624328345gmail-m_-8588148075564318222gmail-m_-8767966813928691312gmail-m_-1542318334608687154gmail-m_5717104778280916634gmail-m_4845490158781220632gmail-m_5124567205141626540gmail-m_3209361100497750746gmail-m_2953668934074478317gmail-m_-3155518689668024534m_9067904842688472155gmail-m_3071693547520408192gmail-il" 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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who: </font></font><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jonathan Weed, MIT</span></div><br class="gmail-m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Title: Near-Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Transport</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Abstract: Computing optimal transport distances between distributions is a fundamental problem that is becoming increasingly prominent in statistics, image processing, and machine learning. Key to the use of optimal transport in practice is the existence of fast, stable algorithms for computing these distances. In this work, we exhibit a simple approximation algorithm for this problem that runs in near-linear time. Our work is based on new analysis of the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling, as well as new results about the behavior of linear programs under entropic penalization. Joint work with Jason Altschuler and Philippe Rigollet.</div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div 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<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: <b style="font-weight:400"> </b> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Friday, May 18th </span><span 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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: <span class="m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767m_3439038168464703931gmail-m_7186661958014209082gmail-m_-4881373329697077770gmail-m_-2141744242196855365gmail-m_1163836401633243615gmail-m_2148237477730121328gmail-m_-6691959996525573090gmail-m_1517372298344856049gmail-m_491069367152086750gmail-m_-8327640324523575189gmail-m_2420618808463760418gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-m_8421504075585210435gmail-m_3262824545120381495gmail-m_-1141671822915777344gmail-m_-7219251726624328345gmail-m_-8588148075564318222gmail-m_-8767966813928691312gmail-m_-1542318334608687154gmail-m_5717104778280916634gmail-m_4845490158781220632gmail-m_5124567205141626540gmail-m_3209361100497750746gmail-m_2953668934074478317gmail-m_-3155518689668024534m_9067904842688472155gmail-m_3071693547520408192gmail-il" style="font-weight:400"><span class="m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767m_3439038168464703931gmail-m_7186661958014209082gmail-m_-4881373329697077770gmail-m_-2141744242196855365gmail-m_1163836401633243615gmail-m_2148237477730121328gmail-m_-6691959996525573090gmail-m_1517372298344856049gmail-m_491069367152086750gmail-m_-8327640324523575189gmail-m_2420618808463760418gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il"><span class="m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-il">TTIC</span></span></span>, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who: </font></font><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jonathan Weed, MIT</span></div><br class="m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Title: Near-Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Transport</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Abstract: Computing optimal transport distances between distributions is a fundamental problem that is becoming increasingly prominent in statistics, image processing, and machine learning. Key to the use of optimal transport in practice is the existence of fast, stable algorithms for computing these distances. In this work, we exhibit a simple approximation algorithm for this problem that runs in near-linear time. Our work is based on new analysis of the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling, as well as new results about the behavior of linear programs under entropic penalization. Joint work with Jason Altschuler and Philippe Rigollet.</div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div 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style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-kerning:none"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">For more information on the <i>M<span class="m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-il">achine</span> L<span class="m_8996276559683463973gmail-m_869755997330649596gmail-il">earning</span> Seminar Series</i></span><span 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style="font-style:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you are interested in presenting in the seminar, </span><span style="font-style:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">please send an email to<span> </span></span><a href="mailto:suriya@ttic.edu" 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<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_8996276559683463973gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">When: <b style="font-weight:400"> </b> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Friday, May 18th </span><span class="m_8996276559683463973m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767m_3439038168464703931gmail-m_7186661958014209082gmail-m_-4881373329697077770gmail-m_-2141744242196855365gmail-m_1163836401633243615gmail-m_2148237477730121328gmail-m_-6691959996525573090gmail-m_1517372298344856049gmail-m_491069367152086750gmail-m_-8327640324523575189gmail-m_2420618808463760418gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">at</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>11:00 am</b></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: <span class="m_8996276559683463973m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767m_3439038168464703931gmail-m_7186661958014209082gmail-m_-4881373329697077770gmail-m_-2141744242196855365gmail-m_1163836401633243615gmail-m_2148237477730121328gmail-m_-6691959996525573090gmail-m_1517372298344856049gmail-m_491069367152086750gmail-m_-8327640324523575189gmail-m_2420618808463760418gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-m_8421504075585210435gmail-m_3262824545120381495gmail-m_-1141671822915777344gmail-m_-7219251726624328345gmail-m_-8588148075564318222gmail-m_-8767966813928691312gmail-m_-1542318334608687154gmail-m_5717104778280916634gmail-m_4845490158781220632gmail-m_5124567205141626540gmail-m_3209361100497750746gmail-m_2953668934074478317gmail-m_-3155518689668024534m_9067904842688472155gmail-m_3071693547520408192gmail-il" style="font-weight:400"><span class="m_8996276559683463973m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-m_4240741644540508174gmail-m_-7649362550103587767m_3439038168464703931gmail-m_7186661958014209082gmail-m_-4881373329697077770gmail-m_-2141744242196855365gmail-m_1163836401633243615gmail-m_2148237477730121328gmail-m_-6691959996525573090gmail-m_1517372298344856049gmail-m_491069367152086750gmail-m_-8327640324523575189gmail-m_2420618808463760418gmail-m_7960197898027616883gmail-m_8692226636264124041gmail-m_2794822896869921223gmail-m_7508998950622620526gmail-m_-7153355664495542534gmail-il"><span class="m_8996276559683463973m_869755997330649596gmail-m_-7890796221202281087gmail-m_-1216822548864914938m_1430452980776983890gmail-m_1031910664862358996gmail-m_8778633083237298896gmail-m_-8347358208690191418gmail-m_6958947101002467454gmail-il">TTIC</span></span></span>, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#000000" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Who: </font></font><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jonathan Weed, MIT</span></div><br class="m_8996276559683463973m_869755997330649596gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Title: Near-Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Transport</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Abstract: Computing optimal transport distances between distributions is a fundamental problem that is becoming increasingly prominent in statistics, image processing, and machine learning. Key to the use of optimal transport in practice is the existence of fast, stable algorithms for computing these distances. In this work, we exhibit a simple approximation algorithm for this problem that runs in near-linear time. Our work is based on new analysis of the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling, as well as new results about the behavior of linear programs under entropic penalization. Joint work with Jason Altschuler and Philippe Rigollet.</div>
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<br><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_8996276559683463973m_869755997330649596gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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