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The aim of this paper is to design an efficient multigrid method for constrained convex optimization problems arising from discretization of some underlying infinite dimensional problems. Due to problem dependency of this approach, we only…

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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…

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We demonstrate an iterative scheme to approximate the optimal transportation problem with a discrete target measure under certain standard conditions on the cost function. Additionally, we give a finite upper bound on the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Jun Kitagawa

We give a characterization of optimal transport plans for a variant of the usual quadratic transport cost introduced in [33]. Optimal plans are composition of a deterministic transport given by the gradient of a continuously differentiable…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Nathael Gozlan , Nicolas Juillet

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

Effective traffic optimization strategies can improve the performance of transportation networks significantly. Most exiting works develop traffic optimization strategies depending on the local traffic states of congested road segments,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Fengkun Gao , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan , Yang Zhang

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

The discretization of optimal transport problems often leads to large linear programs with sparse solutions. We derive error estimates for the approximation of the problem using convex combinations of Dirac measures and devise an active-set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Sören Bartels , Stephan Hertzog

Optimal transport on a graph focuses on finding the most efficient way to transfer resources from one distribution to another while considering the graph's structure. This paper introduces a new distributed algorithm that solves the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yacine Mokhtari , Emmanuel Moulay , Patrick Coirault , Jérôme Le Ny

In classical optimal transport, the contributions of Benamou-Brenier and McCann regarding the time-dependent version of the problem are cornerstones of the field and form the basis for a variety of applications in other mathematical areas.…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Mathias Beiglböck , Martin Huesmann , Sigrid Källblad

We propose numerical schemes for the approximate solution of problems defined on the edges of a one-dimensional graph. In particular, we consider linear transport and a drift-diffusion equations, and discretize them by extending Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Beatrice Crippa , Anna Scotti , Andrea Villa

The main contribution of this paper is a novel method for planning globally optimal trajectories for dynamical systems subject to polygonal constraints. The proposed method is a hybrid trajectory planning approach, which combines graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Andreas B. Martinsen , Anastasios M. Lekkas , Sebastien Gros

This chapter describes techniques for the numerical resolution of optimal transport problems. We will consider several discretizations of these problems, and we will put a strong focus on the mathematical analysis of the algorithms to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Quentin Merigot , Boris Thibert

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

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Obtaining solutions to Optimal Transportation (OT) problems is typically intractable when the marginal spaces are continuous. Recent research has focused on approximating continuous solutions with discretization methods based on i.i.d.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Junqi Wang , Pei Wang , Patrick Shafto

This paper proposes an efficient numerical method based on second-order cone programming (SOCP) to solve dynamic optimal transport (DOT) problems with quadratic cost on staggered grid discretization. By properly reformulating discretized…

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Convex nonsmooth optimization problems, whose solutions live in very high dimensional spaces, have become ubiquitous. To solve them, the class of first-order algorithms known as proximal splitting algorithms is particularly adequate: they…

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We provide a framework to approximate the 2-Wasserstein distance and the optimal transport map, amenable to efficient training as well as statistical and geometric analysis. With the quadratic cost and considering the Kantorovich dual form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Amin Jalali

In this paper we consider distributed optimization problems in which the cost function is separable, i.e., a sum of possibly non-smooth functions all sharing a common variable, and can be split into a strongly convex term and a convex one.…

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We study a dynamic optimal transport type problem on a domain that consists of two parts: a compact set $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ (bulk) and a non-intersecting and sufficiently regular curve $\Gamma \subset \Omega$. On each of them, a…

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