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Optimization problems with stochastic dominance constraints provide a possibility to shape risk by selecting a benchmark random outcome with a desired distribution. The comparison of the relevant random outcomes to the respective benchmarks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Darinka Dentcheva , Yunxuan Yi

We consider the simultaneous optimal transportation of measures, where the target marginal is not necessarily fixed. For this problem, we prove the existence of a solution for completely regular spaces and investigate the structure of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Kirill Sokolov

We prove Kantorovich duality for a linearized version of a recently proposed non-quadratic quantum optimal transport problem, where quantum channels realize the transport. As an application, we determine optimal solutions of both the primal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Gergely Bunth , József Pitrik , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

Multi-marginal optimal transport enables one to compare multiple probability measures, which increasingly finds application in multi-task learning problems. One practical limitation of multi-marginal transport is computational scalability…

We study optimal transport between probability measures supported on the same finite metric space, where the ground cost is a distance induced by a weighted connected graph. Building on recent work showing that the resulting Kantorovich…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Jérémie Bigot , Luis Fredes

This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang , Zhou Zhou

A remarkable connection between optimal design and Monge transport was initiated in the years 1997 in the context of the minimal elastic compliance problem and where the euclidean metric cost was naturally involved. In this paper we present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Karol Bołbotowski , Guy Bouchitté

The duality theory of the Monge--Kantorovich transport problem is analyzed in a general setting. The spaces $X, Y$ are assumed to be polish and equipped with Borel probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$. The transport cost function $c:X\times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-07 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

We propose an extension of the computational fluid mechanics approach to the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem, which was developed by Benamou-Brenier. Our extension allows optimal transfer of unnormalized and unequal masses. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Wilfrid Gangbo , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Michael Puthawala

The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

This paper mainly addresses the Monge mass transfer problem in the 1-D case. Through an ingenious approximation mechanism, one transforms the Monge problem into a sequence of minimization problems, which can be converted into a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Yanhua Wu , Xiaojun Lu

We present generalized versions of Monge's and Kantorovich's optimal transport problems with the probabilities being transported replaced by lower probabilities. We show that, when the lower probabilities are the lower envelopes of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-21 Michele Caprio

In this paper, we prove a structure theorem for discrete optimal transportation plans. We show that, given any pair of discrete probability measures and a cost function, there exists an optimal transportation plan that can be expressed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Gennaro Auricchio , Marco Veneroni

The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-10-27 Mathias Beiglböck , Christian Léonard , Walter Schachermayer

We consider optimal transport problems where the cost for transporting a given probability measure $\mu_0$ to another one $\mu_1$ consists of two parts: the first one measures the transportation from $\mu_0$ to an intermediate (pivot)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Guillaume Carlier , Katharina Eichinger

In this paper we propose two behavioral distances that support approximate reasoning on Stochastic Markov Models (SMMs), that are continuous-time stochastic transition systems where the residence time on each state is described by a generic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Giorgio Bacci , Giovanni Bacci , Kim G. Larsen , Radu Mardare

We consider the optimal mass transportation problem in $\RR^d$ with measurably parameterized marginals, for general cost functions and under conditions ensuring the existence of a unique optimal transport map. We prove a joint measurability…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Joaquin Fontbona , Helene Guerin , Sylvie Meleard

The multistsochastic Monge--Kantorovich problem on the product $X = \prod_{i=1}^n X_i$ of $n$ spaces is a generalization of the multimarginal Monge--Kantorovich problem. For a given integer number $1 \le k<n$ we consider the minimization…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Nikita A. Gladkov , Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Alexander P. Zimin

In this paper, we establish a Kantorovich duality for weak optimal total variation transport problems. As consequences, we recover a version of duality formula for partial optimal transports established by Caffarelli and McCann; and we also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Nhan-Phu Chung , Thanh-Son Trinh

We define a new two-parameter family of metrics on subsets of Borel probability measures on general metric fiber bundles, called the $ \textit{disintegrated Monge--Kantorovich metrics}$. This family contains the classical Monge-Kantorovich…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jun Kitagawa , Asuka Takatsu