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We address the problem of defining a network graph on a large collection of classes. Each class is comprised of a collection of data points, sampled in a non i.i.d. way, from some unknown underlying distribution. The application we consider…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-04 Alexander Cloninger , Brita Roy , Carley Riley , Harlan M. Krumholz

We consider discrete-time branching random walks with a radially symmetric distribution. Independently of each other individuals generate offspring whose relative locations are given by a copy of a radially symmetric point process…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Viktor Bezborodov , Nina Gantert

In this note, we consider the so-called field-road diffusion model in a bounded domain, consisting of two parabolic PDEs posed on sets of different dimensions and coupled through (symmetric) nonlinear exchange terms. We propose a new and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Matthieu Alfaro , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Flore Nabet

Although many well-known algorithms can solve each bipartite matching problem instance efficiently, it remains an open question how one could estimate the expected optimal matching distance for arbitrary numbers of randomly distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Shiyu Shen , Yuhui Zhai , Yanfeng Ouyang

In this article we derive Talagrand's $T_2$ inequality on the path space w.r.t. the maximum norm for various stochastic processes, including solutions of one-dimensional stochastic differential equations with measurable drifts, backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Daniel Bartl , Ludovic Tangpi

A common way to quantify the ,,distance'' between measures is via their discrepancy, also known as maximum mean discrepancy (MMD). Discrepancies are related to Sinkhorn divergences $S_\varepsilon$ with appropriate cost functions as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

Using the growing volumes of vehicle trajectory data, it becomes increasingly possible to capture time-varying and uncertain travel costs in a road network, including travel time and fuel consumption. The current paradigm represents a road…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Dai , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen

We prove that if $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is a (not necessarily strictly) convex, $C^1$ domain, and $\mu$ and $\bar{\mu}$ are probability measures absolutely continuous with respect to surface measure on $\partial \Omega$, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Seonghyeon Jeong , Jun Kitagawa

In this paper we study general transportation problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$, in which $m$ different goods are moved simultaneously. The initial and final positions of the goods are prescribed by measures $\mu^-$, $\mu^+$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi , Salvatore Stuvard , Riccardo Tione

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

We propose diffusion-like equations with time and space fractional derivatives of the distributed order for the kinetic description of anomalous diffusion and relaxation phenomena, whose diffusion exponent varies with time and which,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Chechkin , R. Gorenflo , I. M. Sokolov

We conjecture that the current fluctuations in one-dimensional driven transport systems obey an upper bound determined by the mean current and the driving force. This inequality originates from repulsive interactions between transporting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jiayin Gu , Fan Zhang

Optimal Transport is a theory that allows to define geometrical notions of distance between probability distributions and to find correspondences, relationships, between sets of points. Many machine learning applications are derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Titouan Vayer

This paper seeks to solve the long-term transmission expansion planning problem more effectively by reducing the solution search space and the computational effort. The proposed methodology finds and adds cutting planes based on structural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-07 J. Kyle Skolfield , Laura M. Escobar , Adolfo R. Escobedo

This paper studies sampling error bounds for denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) in the 2-Wasserstein distance. Our contributions are threefold. (i) Under general Lipschitz-type conditions on the score function and for a broad…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Yuta Koike

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

We propose a fundamental metric for measuring the distance between two distributions. This metric, referred to as the decision-focused (DF) divergence, is tailored to stochastic linear optimization problems in which the objective…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Suhan Liu , Mo Liu

We consider the problem of optimal incomplete transportation between the empirical measure on an i.i.d. uniform sample on the d-dimensional unit cube $[0,1]^d$ and the true measure. This is a family of problems lying in between classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Eustasio del Barrio , Carlos Matrán

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang

In this paper we study the following one-dimensional reaction-diffusion problem $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^s u=f(x-c t, u) \;\:\textrm{ in } \mathbb{R}\times (0,+\infty), $$ where $s>\frac{1}{2}$, $c \in \mathbb{R}$ is a prescribed velocity, and $f$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Sebastián Flores-Sepúlveda , Gabrielle Nornberg , Alexander Quaas