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Units of complex systems -- such as neurons in the brain or individuals in societies -- must communicate efficiently to function properly: e.g., allowing electrochemical signals to travel quickly among functionally connected neuronal areas…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 Arsham Ghavasieh , Manlio De Domenico

We introduce a new non-linear optimal transport formulation for a pair of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ sharing a common barycentre, in which admissible transference plans satisfy two martingale-type constraints. This bi-martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Karol Bołbotowski

This paper studies strategies to optimize the lane configuration of a transportation network for a given set of Origin-Destination demands using a planning macroscopic network flow model. The lane reversal problem is, in general, NP-hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Salomon Wollenstein-Betech , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Christos G. Cassandras

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 consider the problem of optimal transportation with general cost between a empirical measure and a general target probability on R d , with d $\ge$ 1. We extend results in [19] and prove asymptotic stability of both optimal transport…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

The ubiquitous expansion and transformation of the energy supply system involves large-scale power infrastructure construction projects. In the view of investments of more than a million dollars per kilometre, planning authorities aim to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Nina Wiedemann , David Adjiashvili

We present a method to extract temporal hypergraphs from sequences of 2-dimensional functions obtained as solutions to Optimal Transport problems. We investigate optimality principles exhibited by these solutions from the point of view of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

Opportunistic routing is being investigated to enable the proliferation of low-cost wireless applications. A recent trend is looking at social structures, inferred from the social nature of human mobility, to bring messages close to a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Waldir Moreira , Paulo Mendes , Susana Sargento

In this work, we have employed Monte Carlo calculations to study the Ising model on a 2D additive small-world network with long-range interactions depending on the geometric distance between interacting sites. The network is initially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 R. A. Dumer , M. Godoy

Many complex systems can be described in terms of networks of interacting units. Recent studies have shown that a wide class of both natural and artificial nets display a surprisingly widespread feature: the presence of highly heterogeneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ferrer i Cancho , R. V. Sole

The construction of large-scale, low-latency networks becomes difficult as the number of nodes increases. In general, the way to construct a theoretically optimal solution is unknown. However, it is known that some methods can construct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Ryosuke Mizuno , Yawara Ishida

Transportation networks are inevitably selected with reference to their global cost which depends on the strengths and the distribution of the embedded currents. We prove that optimal current distributions for a uniformly injected…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Filippo Simini , Andrea Rinaldo , Amos Maritan

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

This paper serves as a user's guide to sampling strategies for sliced optimal transport. We provide reminders and additional regularity results on the Sliced Wasserstein distance. We detail the construction methods, generation time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Keanu Sisouk , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

The branched transport problem, a popular recent variant of optimal transport, is a non-convex and non-smooth variational problem on Radon measures. The so-called urban planning problem, on the contrary, is a shape optimization problem that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We consider the optimal paths in a $d$-dimensional lattice, where the bonds have isotropically correlated random weights. These paths can be interpreted as the ground state configuration of a simplified polymer model in a random potential.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Roland Schorr , Heiko Rieger

Branched Optimal Transport (BOT) is a generalization of optimal transport in which transportation costs along an edge are subadditive. This subadditivity models an increase in transport efficiency when shipping mass along the same route,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Peter Lippmann , Enrique Fita Sanmartín , Fred A. Hamprecht

We consider the closest lattice point problem in a distributed network setting and study the communication cost and the error probability for computing an approximate nearest lattice point, using the nearest-plane algorithm, due to Babai.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 M. F. Bollauf , V. A. Vaishampayan , S. I. R. Costa

Consider the following classical search problem: given a target point $p\in \Re$, starting at the origin, find $p$ with minimum cost, where cost is defined as the distance travelled. Let $D$ be the distance of $p$ from the origin. When no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Prosenjit Bose , Jean-Lou De Carufel

To analyze the transport of information or material from a source to every node of a network we use two quantities introduced in the study of river networks: the cost and the flow. For a network with $K$ nodes and $M$ levels, we show that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 L. A. Barbosa , J. K. L. da Silva