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We consider optimal transportation of measures on metric and topological spaces in the case where the cost function and marginal distributions depend on a parameter with values in a metric space. The Hausdorff distance between the sets of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Vladimir Bogachev , Svetlana Popova

We extend the variational approach to regularity for optimal transport maps initiated by Goldman and the first author to the case of general cost functions. Our main result is an $\epsilon$-regularity result for optimal transport maps…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Felix Otto , Maxime Prod'homme , Tobias Ried

We study the notion of debiasability for cost functions arising in optimal transport. We call a symmetric cost function $c:\mathscr{X}\times\mathscr{X}\to\mathbb{R}\cup\{+\infty\}$ debiasable if it satisfies $c(x,y)\ge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Virginie Ehrlacher , Gabriele Todeschi

We study Monge's optimal transportation problem, where the cost is given by optimal control cost. We prove the existence and uniqueness of an optimal map under certain regularity conditions on the Lagrangian, absolute continuity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-24 Andrei Agrachev , Paul Lee

In the field of optimal transport theory, an optimal map is known to be a gradient map of a potential function satisfying cost-convexity. In this paper, the Jacobian determinant of a gradient map is shown to be log-concave with respect to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Tomonari Sei

In recent years, the use of entropy-regularized optimal transport with $L^p$-type entropies has become increasingly popular. In this setting, the solutions are sparse, in the sense that the support of the regularized optimal coupling,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Alberto González-Sanz , Rishabh S. Gvalani , Lukas Koch

Motivated by a constrained minimization problem, it is studied the gradient flows with respect to Hessian Riemannian metrics induced by convex functions of Legendre type. The first result characterizes Hessian Riemannian structures on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Felipe Alvarez , Jérôme Bolte , Olivier Brahic

This paper studies the convergence rates of optimal transport (OT) map estimators, a topic of growing interest in statistics, machine learning, and various scientific fields. Despite recent advancements, existing results rely on regularity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Yizhe Ding , Runze Li , Lingzhou Xue

We provide a geometric interpretation of the well known A3w condition for regularity of optimal transport maps.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Cale Rankin

Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher

We prove that, in the optimal transportation problem with general costs and positive continuous densities, the potential function is always of class $W^{2,p}_{loc}$ for any $p \geq 1$ outside of a closed singular set of measure zero. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Shibing Chen , Alessio Figalli

We examine the optimal mass transport problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ between densities having independent compact support by considering the geometry of a continuous interpolating support boundary in space-time within which the mass density…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Anthony Yezzi

We prove rigidity results describing contextually-constrained maps defined on Grassmannians and manifolds of ordered independent line tuples in finite-dimensional vector or Hilbert spaces. One statement in the spirit of the Fundamental…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alexandru Chirvasitu

Models involving branched structures are employed to describe several supply-demand systems such as the structure of the nerves of a leaf, the system of roots of a tree and the nervous or cardiovascular systems. Given a flow (traffic path)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Maria Colombo , Antonio De Rosa , Andrea Marchese

In this note, we derive upper-bounds on the statistical estimation rates of unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) maps for the quadratic cost. Our work relies on the stability of the semi-dual formulation of optimal transport (OT) extended to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Adrien Vacher , François-Xavier Vialard

A theorem of L. Caffarelli implies the existence of a map pushing forward a source Gaussian measure to a target measure which is more log-concave than the source one, which contracts Euclidean distance (in fact, Caffarelli showed that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Young-Heon Kim , Emanuel Milman

Despite the remarkable empirical success of generative models, the available theory on their statistical accuracy in scientific computing remains largely pessimistic. This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Likun Lin , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

We investigate metric conditions that allow to prove existence and uniqueness of a map solving the Monge problem between two marginals in a metric (measure) space, proving two main results. Firstly, we introduce a nonsmooth version of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Shucheng Li , Mattia Magnabosco , Timo Schultz

Wang and Ye conjectured in [22]: Let $\Omega$ be a regular, bounded and convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. There exists a finite constant $C({\Omega})>0$ such that \[ \int_{\Omega}e^{\frac{4\pi u^{2}}{H_{d}(u)}}dxdy\le C(\Omega),\;\;\forall…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Guozhen Lu , Qiaohua Yang

In this paper, we establish a global regularity result for the optimal transport problem with the quadratic cost, where the domains may not be convex. This result is obtained by a perturbation argument, using a recent global regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Shibing Chen , Jiakun Liu , Xu-Jia Wang