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We study the discretization of generalized Wasserstein distances with nonlinear mobilities on the real line via suitable discrete metrics on the cone of N ordered particles, a setting which naturally appears in the framework of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Simone Di Marino , Lorenzo Portinale , Emanuela Radici

We study the metric structure of walks on graphs, understood as Lipschitz sequences. To this end, a weighted metric is introduced to handle sequences, enabling the definition of distances between walks based on stepwise vertex distances and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 R. Arnau , A. González Cortés , E. A. Sánchez Pérez , S. Sanjuan

We propose a novel framework for approximating the statistical properties of turbulent flows by combining variational methods for the search of unstable periodic orbits with resolvent analysis for dimensionality reduction. Traditional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-22 Thomas Burton , Sean Symon , Ati Sharma , Davide Lasagna

We formulate a class of velocity-free finite-particle methods for mass transport problems based on a time-discrete incremental variational principle that combines entropy and the cost of particle transport, as measured by the Wasserstein…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Anna Pandolfi , Laurent Stainier , Michael Ortiz

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

A Radon measure $\mu$ is $n$-rectifiable if $\mu\ll\mathcal{H}^n$ and $\mu$-almost all of $\text{supp}\,\mu$ can be covered by Lipschitz images of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this paper we give a necessary condition for rectifiability in terms of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Damian Dąbrowski

A common way to quantify the ,,distance'' between measures is via their discrepancy, also known as maximum mean discrepancy (MMD). Discrepancies are related to Sinkhorn divergences $S_\varepsilon$ with appropriate cost functions as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

This paper studies distributional model risk in marginal problems, where each marginal measure is assumed to lie in a Wasserstein ball centered at a fixed reference measure with a given radius. Theoretically, we establish several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yanqin Fan , Hyeonseok Park , Gaoqian Xu

We introduce a novel geometric framework for optimal experimental design (OED). Traditional OED approaches, such as those based on mutual information, rely explicitly on probability densities, leading to restrictive invariance properties.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-17 Gavin Kerrigan , Christian A. Naesseth , Tom Rainforth

In this work, weakly corrected explicit, semi-implicit and implicit Milstein approximations are presented for the solution of nonlinear stochastic differential equations. The solution trajectories provided by the Milstein schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Tapas Tripura , Budhaditya Hazra , Souvik Chakraborty

Within the framework of linear elasticity we assume the availability of internal full-field measurements of the continuum deformations of a non-homogeneous isotropic solid. The aim is the quantitative reconstruction of the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Guillaume Bal , Cédric Bellis , Sébastien Imperiale , François Monard

This article is concerned with the existence and the long time behavior of weak solutions to certain coupled systems of fourth-order degenerate parabolic equations of gradient flow type. The underlying metric is a Wasserstein-like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Daniel Matthes , Jonathan Zinsl

We investigate the problem of optimal transport in the so-called Kantorovich form, i.e. given two Radon measures on two compact sets, we seek an optimal transport plan which is another Radon measure on the product of the sets that has these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Dirk A. Lorenz , Paul Manns , Christian Meyer

We propose a unifying framework for generalising the Wasserstein-1 metric to a discrepancy measure between nonnegative measures of different mass. This generalization inherits the convexity and computational efficiency from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

This paper studies a specific metric on plane curves that has the property of being isometric to classical manifold (sphere, complex projective, Stiefel, Grassmann) modulo change of parametrization, each of these classical manifolds being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Peter W. Michor , David Mumford , Jayant Shah , Laurent Younes

This paper focuses on a similarity measure, known as the Wasserstein distance, with which to compare images. The Wasserstein distance results from a partial differential equation (PDE) formulation of Monge's optimal transport problem. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Michael Snow , Jan Van lent

We present a constructive approach to surface comparison realizable by a polynomial-time algorithm. We determine the "similarity" of two given surfaces by solving a mass-transportation problem between their conformal densities. This mass…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Yaron Lipman , Ingrid Daubechies

We aim at quantitatively determining transport parameters like conductivity, mean free path, etc., for simple models of spatially completely disordered quantum systems, comparable to the systems which are sometimes referred to as Lifshitz…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Khodja , H. Niemeyer , J. Gemmer

We highlight some recent new delevelopments concerning the sparse representation of possibly high-dimensional functions exhibiting strong anisotropic features and low regularity in isotropic Sobolev or Besov scales. Specifically, we focus…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Wolfgang Dahmen , Chunyan Huang , Gitta Kutyniok , Wang-Q Lim , Christoph Schwab , Gerrit Welper

We develop a mathematical and numerical framework to solve state estimation problems for applications that present variations in the shape of the spatial domain. This situation arises typically in a biomedical context where inverse problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Felipe Galarce , Damiano Lombardi , Olga Mula