In-Context Operator Learning on the Space of Probability Measures

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Authors: F. N. Cole, Dixi Wang, Yineng Chen, Yulong Lu, Rongjie Lai
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Abstract

We introduce \emph{in-context operator learning on probability measure spaces} for optimal transport (OT). The goal is to learn a single solution operator that maps a pair of distributions to the OT map, using only few-shot samples from each distribution as a prompt and \emph{without} gradient updates at inference. We parameterize the solution operator and develop scaling-law theory in two regimes. In the \emph{nonparametric} setting, when tasks concentrate on a low-intrinsic-dimension manifold of source--target pairs, we establish generalization bounds that quantify how in-context accuracy scales with prompt size, intrinsic task dimension, and model capacity. In the \emph{parametric} setting (e.g., Gaussian families), we give an explicit architecture that recovers the exact OT map in context and provide finite-sample excess-risk bounds. Our numerical experiments on synthetic transports and generative-modeling benchmarks validate the framework.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
15 January 2026
Document type
Preprint