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We introduce an efficient framework for computing the distance between collider events using the tools of Linearized Optimal Transport (LOT). This preserves many of the advantages of the recently-introduced Energy Mover's Distance, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Tianji Cai , Junyi Cheng , Katy Craig , Nathaniel Craig

This paper is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

This article gives an introduction to optimal transport, a mathematical theory that makes it possible to measure distances between functions (or distances between more general objects), to interpolate between objects or to enforce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Bruno Levy , Erica Schwindt

Given a positive real value $\delta$, a set $P$ of points along a line and a distance function $d$, in the movement to independence problem, we wish to move the points to new positions on the line such that for every two points $p_{i},p_{j}…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Sina Yazdanbod

Controlling the $\mathcal W_\infty$ Wasserstein distance by the $\mathcal W_p$ Wasserstein distance is interesting both for theorical and numerical applications. A first paper on this problem was written several years ago [3]. Some year…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Luigi De Pascale , Igor Pinheiro

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

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

Consider the problem of optimally matching two measures on the circle, or equivalently two periodic measures on the real line, and suppose the cost of matching two points satisfies the Monge condition. We introduce a notion of locally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-04 Julie Delon , Julien Salomon , Andrei Sobolevskii

We propose a combination of a bounding procedure and gradient descent method for solving the Dubins traveling salesman problem, that is, the problem of finding a shortest curvature-constrained tour through a finite number of points in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 David Kirszenblat , José Ayala , J. Hyam Rubinstein

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

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

In this study, two initial boundary value problems for one dimensional advection-dispersion equation are solved by differential quadrature method based on sine cardinal functions. Pure advection problem modeling transport of conservative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Alper Korkmaz

Let $R$ and $B$ be two point sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with $|R|+ |B| = n$ and where $d$ is a constant. Next, let $\lambda : R \cup B \to \mathbb{N}$ such that $\sum_{r \in R } \lambda(r) = \sum_{b \in B} \lambda(b)$ be demand functions over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Kyle Fox , Debmalya Panigrahi , Kasturi R. Varadarajan , Allen Xiao

The optimal transportation problem, first suggested by Gaspard Monge in the 18th century and later revived in the 1940s by Leonid Kantorovich, deals with the question of transporting a certain measure to another, using transport maps or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Shlomi Gover

We introduce a novel neural network-based algorithm to compute optimal transport (OT) plans for general cost functionals. In contrast to common Euclidean costs, i.e., $\ell^1$ or $\ell^2$, such functionals provide more flexibility and allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Arip Asadulaev , Alexander Korotin , Vage Egiazarian , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev

A fundamental problem in spacecraft mission design is to find a free flight path from one place to another with a given transfer time. This problem for paths in a central force field is known as Lambert's problem. Although this is an old…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Robert Easton , Rodney Anderson , Martin Lo

Existing gradient-based optimization methods update parameters locally, in a direction that minimizes the loss function. We study a different approach, symmetry teleportation, that allows parameters to travel a large distance on the loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Bo Zhao , Nima Dehmamy , Robin Walters , Rose Yu

We propose a primal--dual technique that applies to infinite dimensional equality constrained problems, in particular those arising from optimal control. As an application of our general framework, we solve a control-constrained double…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Regina S. Burachik , C. Yalçın Kaya , Xuemei Liu

We investigate the optimal transport problem between probability measures when the underlying cost function is understood to satisfy a least action principle, also known as a Lagrangian cost. These generalizations are useful when connecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Brandon Amos