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Approximating optimal transport with linear programs

Data Structures and Algorithms 2018-10-23 v2

Abstract

In the regime of bounded transportation costs, additive approximations for the optimal transport problem are reduced (rather simply) to relative approximations for positive linear programs, resulting in faster additive approximation algorithms for optimal transport.

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@article{arxiv.1810.05957,
  title  = {Approximating optimal transport with linear programs},
  author = {Kent Quanrud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05957},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To appear in SOSA 2019