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A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

We study the Monge and Kantorovich transportation problems on $\mathbb{R}^{\infty}$ within the class of exchangeable measures. With the help of the de Finetti decomposition theorem the problem is reduced to an unconstrained optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Danila A. Zaev

These notes constitute a sort of Crash Course in Optimal Transport Theory. The different features of the problem of Monge-Kantorovitch are treated, starting from convex duality issues. The main properties of space of probability measures…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Filippo Santambrogio

We introduce a new framework for data denoising, partially inspired by martingale optimal transport. For a given noisy distribution (the data), our approach involves finding the closest distribution to it among all distributions which 1)…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-03 Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew , Tongseok Lim , Brendan Pass , Marcelo Cruz de Souza

In the classical Monge-Kantorovich problem, the transportation cost only depends on the amount of mass sent from sources to destinations and not on the paths followed by this mass. Thus, it does not allow for congestion effects. Using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Carlier , C. Jimenez , F. Santambrogio

In this paper we study the class of optimal entropy-transport problems introduced by Liero, Mielke and Savar\'e in Inventiones Mathematicae 211 in 2018. This class of unbalanced transport metrics allows for transport between measures of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 David P. Bourne , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

The Monge-Kantorovich mass-transportation problem has been shown to be fundamental for various basic problems in analysis and geometry in recent years. Shen and Zheng (2010) proposed a probability method to transform the celebrated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Zuo Quan Xu , Jia-An Yan

Over the past five years, multi-marginal optimal transport, a generalization of the well known optimal transport problem of Monge and Kantorovich, has begun to attract considerable attention, due in part to a wide variety of emerging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Brendan Pass

In this article we prove the existence of a stochastic optimal transference plan for a stochastic Monge-Kantorovich problem by measurable selection theorem. A stochastic version of Kantorovich duality and the characterization of stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-02-12 Xicheng Zhang

In the field of optimal transport, two prominent subfields face each other: (i) unregularized optimal transport, "\`a-la-Kantorovich", which leads to extremely sparse plans but with algorithms that scale poorly, and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ehsan Amid , Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock , Manfred K. Warmuth

The theory of Monge-Kantorovich Optimal Mass Transport (OMT) has in recent years spurred a fast developing phase of research in stochastic control, control of ensemble systems, thermodynamics, data science, and several other fields in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Tryphon T. Georgiou

The aim of this article is to show that the Monge-Kantorovich problem is the limit of a sequence of entropy minimization problems when a fluctuation parameter tends down to zero. We prove the convergence of the entropic values to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Christian Léonard

We establish that solving an optimal transportation problem in which the source and target densities are defined on manifolds with different dimensions, is equivalent to solving a new nonlocal analog of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Robert J McCann , Brendan Pass

We prove existence of an optimal transport map in the Monge-Kantorovich problem associated to a cost $c(x,y)$ which is not finite everywhere, but coincides with $|x-y|^2$ if the displacement $y-x$ belongs to a given convex set $C$ and it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Chloé Jimenez , Filippo Santambrogio

This paper mainly investigates the approximation of a global maximizer of the 1-D Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem through the approach of nonlinear differential equations with Dirichlet boundary. Using an approximation mechanism,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Xiaojun Lu , Xiaofen Lv

We present an adaptation of the MA-LBR scheme to the Monge-Amp{\`e}re equation with second boundary value condition, provided the target is a convex set. This yields a fast adaptive method to numerically solve the Optimal Transport problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Jean-David Benamou , Vincent Duval

We study optimal transport plans from $m$ equally weighted points (with weights $1/m$) to $n$ equally weighted points (with weights $1/n$). The Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem implies that if $m=n$, then the optimal transport plan can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Alexander Bruce Johnson , Stefan Steinerberger

We consider the problem to transport resources/mass while abiding by constraints on the flow through constrictions along their path between specified terminal distributions. Constrictions, conceptualized as toll stations at specified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Anqi Dong , Arthur Stephanovitch , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We provide a unifying approach to central limit type theorems for empirical optimal transport (OT). In general, the limit distributions are characterized as suprema of Gaussian processes. We explicitly characterize when the limit…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Shayan Hundrieser , Marcel Klatt , Thomas Staudt , Axel Munk

We study the statistical properties of the entropic optimal (self) transport problem for smooth probability measures. We provide an accurate description of the limit distribution for entropic (self-)potentials and plans as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Gilles Mordant