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We study an optimal weak transport cost related to the notion of convex order between probability measures. On the real line, we show that this weak transport cost is reached for a coupling that does not depend on the underlying cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Nathael Gozlan , Cyril Roberto , Paul-Marie Samson , Yan Shu , Prasad Tetali

Weak optimal transport generalizes the classical theory of optimal transportation to nonlinear cost functions and covers a range of problems that lie beyond the traditional theory - including entropic transport, martingale transport, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Filip Pramenković

The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem is empirically known to have sparse solutions: its optimal coupling $\pi_{\varepsilon}$ has sparse support for small regularization parameter $\varepsilon$, in contrast to entropic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz

An optimal transport problem on finite spaces is a linear program. Recently, a relaxation of the optimal transport problem via strictly convex functions, especially via the Kullback--Leibler divergence, sheds new light on data sciences.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Asuka Takatsu

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

We study the entropic regularizations of optimal transport problems under suitable summability assumptions on the point-wise transport cost. These summability assumptions already appear in the literature. However, we show that the weakest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale , Anna Kausamo

During the last decade Optimal Transport had a relevant role in the study of geometry of singular spaces that culminated with the Lott-Sturm-Villani theory. The latter is built on the characterisation of Ricci curvature lower bounds in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Fabio Cavalletti , Nicola Gigli , Flavia Santarcangelo

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport characterization of sectional curvature lower (and upper) bounds for smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. More generally we characterize, via optimal transport, lower bounds on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Christian Ketterer , Andrea Mondino

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

We provide a unifying interpretation of various optimal transport problems as a minimisation of a linear functional over the set of all Choquet representations of a given pair of probability measures ordered with respect to a certain convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

In this paper, we extend Perelman's $W$-entropy formula and the concavity of the Shannon entropy power from smooth Ricci flow to super Ricci flows on metric measure spaces. Moreover, we prove the Li-Yau-Hamilton-Perelman Harnack inequality…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Xiang-Dong Li

We study the regularity properties of the minimisers of entropic optimal transport providing a natural analogue of the $\varepsilon$-regularity theory of quadratic optimal transport in the entropic setting. More precisely, we show that if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rishabh S. Gvalani , Lukas Koch

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

If $u : \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d \to {\rm X}$ is a harmonic map valued in a metric space ${\rm X}$ and ${\sf E} : {\rm X} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a convex function, in the sense that it generates an ${\rm EVI}_0$-gradient flow, we prove that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Hugo Lavenant , Léonard Monsaingeon , Luca Tamanini , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We prove existence of an optimal transport map in the Monge-Kantorovich problem associated to a cost $c(x,y)$ which is not finite everywhere, but coincides with $|x-y|^2$ if the displacement $y-x$ belongs to a given convex set $C$ and it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Chloé Jimenez , Filippo Santambrogio

We study the vanishing-regularization limit of entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT) for the Euclidean distance cost $c(x,y)=\|x-y\|$ in dimension $d>1$. We develop a comprehensive variational convergence framework that entails…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Marcel Nutz , Chenyang Zhong

We consider so-called branched transport and variants thereof in two space dimensions. In these models one seeks an optimal transportation network for a given mass transportation task. In two space dimensions, they are closely connected to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Carolin Dirks , Benedikt Wirth

We study the optimal transport problem on globally hyperbolic spacetimes associated with Orlicz-type Lorentzian cost functions of the form $u \circ \ell$, where $u$ is a suitable monotonically increasing and concave function, and $\ell$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Argam Ohanyan , Marta Sálamo Candal

We investigate the properties of convex functions in the plane that satisfy a local inequality which generalizes the notion of sub-solution of Monge-Ampere equation for a Monge-Kantorovich problem with quadratic cost between non-absolutely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-08 P. -E. Jabin , A. Mellet , M. Molina

The goal of this paper is to settle the study of non-commutative optimal transport problems with convex regularization, in their static and finite-dimensional formulations. We consider both the balanced and unbalanced problem and show in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Lorenzo Portinale