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We explore the geometry of the Bures-Wasserstein space for potentially degenerate Gaussian measures on a separable Hilbert space. In this general setting, the optimal transport map is formally the subgradient of a convex function that is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ho Yun , Yoav Zemel

We study the Wasserstein projection of a compactly supported probability measure onto the class of measures whose density ratio is bounded, and we place this projection in a broader program connecting generative modeling, optimal transport,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Hy P. G. Lam

Consider two bounded domains $\Omega$ and $\Lambda$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, and two sufficiently regular probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ supported on them. By Brenier's theorem, there exists a unique transportation map $T$ satisfying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Otis Chodosh , Vishesh Jain , Michael Lindsey , Lyuboslav Panchev , Yanir A. Rubinstein

Let $(X,d,m)$ be a proper, non-branching, metric measure space. We show existence and uniqueness of optimal transport maps for cost written as non-decreasing and strictly convex functions of the distance, provided $(X,d,m)$ satisfies a new…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Fabio Cavalletti , Martin Huesmann

We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of globally Lipschitz transport maps between probability measures and their log-Lipschitz perturbations, with dimension-free bounds. Our results include Gaussian measures on Euclidean…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Max Fathi , Dan Mikulincer , Yair Shenfeld

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

We propose a numerical method to find the optimal transport map between a measure supported on a lower-dimensional subset of R^d and a finitely supported measure. More precisely, the source measure is assumed to be supported on a simplex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Quentin Mérigot , Jocelyn Meyron , Boris Thibert

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering the $W_2$-optimal transport map T between absolutely continuous measures $\mu,\nu\in\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ as the flow of a linear-control neural ODE, where the control depends only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Alessandro Scagliotti , Sara Farinelli

We give a new proof of the Caffarelli contraction theorem, which states that the Brenier optimal transport map sending the standard Gaussian measure onto a uniformly log-concave probability measure is Lipschitz. The proof combines a recent…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Max Fathi , Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Prodhomme

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a connected graph. A probability measure $\mu$ on $V$ is called "balanced" if it has the following property: if $T_\mu(v)$ denotes the "earth mover's" cost of transporting all the mass of $\mu$ from all over the graph to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Gregory Baimetov , Ryan Bushling , Ansel Goh , Raymond Guo , Owen Jacobs , Sean Lee

Let $M,N$ be two smooth compact hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$ which bound strictly convex domains equipped with two absolutely continuous measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ (with respect to the volume measures of $M$ and $N$). We consider the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Emmanuel Humbert , Luc Molinet

We study the problem of estimating a function $T$ given independent samples from a distribution $P$ and from the pushforward distribution $T_\sharp P$. This setting is motivated by applications in the sciences, where $T$ represents the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Vincent Divol , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian

Given a function $F$ transforming a probability measure $\mu$ into another one $F(\mu)$, we study the existence and regularity of a transport representation of it. That is, we ask whether we can represent the image $F(\mu)$ of the input…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Hugo Lavenant , Giuseppe Savaré

We establish guarantees for the unique recovery of vector fields and transport maps from finite measure-valued data, yielding new insights into generative models, data-driven dynamical systems, and PDE inverse problems. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse , Yunan Yang

Consider transportation of one distribution of mass onto another, chosen to optimize the total expected cost, where cost per unit mass transported from x to y is given by a smooth function c(x,y). If the source density f^+(x) is bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Alessio Figalli , Young-Heon Kim , Robert J. McCann

In this essay, we discuss the notion of optimal transport on geodesic measure spaces and the associated (2-)Wasserstein distance. We then examine displacement convexity of the entropy functional on the space of probability measures. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Otis Chodosh

Optimal transport has recently been brought forward as a tool for modeling and efficiently solving a variety of flow problems, such as origin-destination problems and multi-commodity flow problems. Although the framework has shown to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Anqi Dong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Johan Karlsson

The Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem involves optimizing with respect to a given a cost function. Uniqueness is a fundamental open question about which little is known when the cost function is smooth and the landscapes containing…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Najma Ahmad , Hwa Kil Kim , Robert J. McCann

Optimal transport has found numerous applications across data science, many of which require differentiating the optimal transport map with respect to the underlying probability densities in the Fr\'echet sense. In this work, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Alberto González-Sanz , Shunan Sheng