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We investigate the continuous optimal transport problem 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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Dirk A. Lorenz , Hinrich Mahler

The duality theory of the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem is investigated in an abstract measure theoretic framework. Let $(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{F},\mu)$ and $(\mathcal{Y},\mathcal{G},\nu)$ be any probability spaces and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Pietro Rigo

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

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

Paper provides a method for solving the reverse Monge-Kantorovich transport problem (TP). It allows to accumulate positive decision-taking experience made by decision-taker in situations that can be presented in the form of TP. The initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Valery Vilisov

A novel methodology is developed for the solution of the data-driven Monge optimal transport barycenter problem, where the pushforward condition is formulated in terms of the statistical independence between two sets of random variables:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Andrew D. Lipnick , Esteban G. Tabak , Giulio Trigila , Yating Wang , Xuancheng Ye , Wenjun Zhao

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

For those acquainted with CVX (aka disciplined convex programming) of M. Grant and S. Boyd, the motivation of this work is the desire to extend the scope of CVX beyond convex minimization -- to convex-concave saddle point problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

We develop a general condition on the cost function which is sufficient to imply Monge solution and uniqueness results in the multi-marginal optimal transport problem. This result unifies and generalizes several results in the rather…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-25 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass

In this paper, we present a numerical method, based on iterative Bregman projections, to solve the optimal transport problem with Coulomb cost. This is related to the strong interaction limit of Density Functional Theory. The first idea is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Luca Nenna

We develop the optimal transportation approach to modified log-Sobolev inequalities and to isoperimetric inequalities. Various sufficient conditions for such inequalities are given. Some of them are new even in the classical log-Sobolev…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-26 Franck Barthe , Alexander V. Kolesnikov

Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

Capacity constrained optimal transport is a variant of optimal transport, which adds extra constraints on the set of feasible couplings in the original optimal transport problem to limit the mass transported between each pair of source and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Tianhao Wu , Qihao Cheng , Zihao Wang , Chaorui Zhang , Bo Bai , Zhongyi Huang , Hao Wu

Given two compact metric spaces $X$ and $Y$, a Lipschitz continuous cost function $c$ on $X \times Y$ and two probabilities $\mu \in\mathcal{P}(X),\,\nu\in\mathcal{P}(Y)$, we propose to study the Monge-Kantorovich problem and its duality…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Jairo K. Mengue

We suggest a new way of defining optimal transport of positive-semidefinite matrix-valued measures. It is inspired by a recent rendering of the incompressible Euler equations and related conservative systems as concave maximization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Yann Brenier , Dmitry Vorotnikov

In this note, we present a unified approach to the problem of existence of a potential for the optimal transport problem with respect to non-traditional cost functions, that is, costs that assume infinite values. We establish a new method…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Shay Sadovsky , Katarzyna Wyczesany

By investigating model-independent bounds for exotic options in financial mathematics, a martingale version of the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem was introduced in \cite{BeiglbockHenry…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-10 Pierre Henry-Labordere , Nizar Touzi

This paper is devoted to the study of the Monge-Kantorovich theory of optimal mass transport and its applications, in the special case of one-dimensional and circular distributions. More precisely, we study the Monge-Kantorovich distances…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Julie Delon , Julien Rabin , Yann Gousseau

We prove a conjecture regarding the asymptotic behavior at infinity of the Kantorovich potential for the Multimarginal Optimal Transport with Coulomb and Riesz costs.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Rodrigue Lelotte