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This paper addresses the inverse optimal control for the linear quadratic tracking problem with a fixed but unknown target state, which aims to estimate the possible triplets comprising the target state, the state weight matrix, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yao Li , Chengpu Yu , Hao Fang , Jie Chen

Inverse optimal transport (OT) refers to the problem of learning the cost function for OT from observed transport plan or its samples. In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex optimization formulation of the inverse OT problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaojun Ma , Haodong Sun , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

We introduce a new class of inverse optimization problems in which an input solution is given together with $k$ linear weight functions, and the goal is to modify the weights by the same deviation vector $p$ so that the input solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Kristóf Bérczi , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Kitti Varga

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yukuan Hu , Huajie Chen , Xin Liu

A fractal mobile-immobile (MIM in short) solute transport model in porous media is set forth, and an inverse problem of determining the fractional orders by the additional measurements at one interior point is investigated by Laplace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Gongsheng Li , Xianzheng Jia , Wenyi Liu , Zhiyuan Li

Quantum computers promise to outperform their classical counterparts at certain tasks. However, existing quantum devices are error-prone and restricted in size. Thus, effective compilation methods are crucial to exploit limited quantum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Moritz Stargalla , Friedrich Wagner

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

The goal of this paper is to settle the study of non-commutative optimal transport problems with convex regularization, in their static and finite-dimensional formulations. We consider both the balanced and unbalanced problem and show in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Lorenzo Portinale

The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem has recently been considered in various applications where the coupling needs to be \emph{sparse}, i.e., the density of the coupling needs to be zero for a large subset of the product…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Alejandro Garriz-Molina , Alberto González-Sanz , Gilles Mordant

In this paper, we study optimal transportation problems for multifractal random measures. Since these measures are much less regular than optimal transportation theory requires, we introduce a new notion of transportation which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-02 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Complexity of the Operations Research Theory tasks can be often diminished in cases that do not require finding the exact solution. For example, forecasting two-dimensional hierarchical time series leads us to the transportation problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 S. V. Rotin , I. V. Gusakov , V. Ya. Gusakov

We investigate the structure of optimal transport plans, dual optimizers, and geodesic paths for the quadratic barycentric transport problem.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Nathael Gozlan , Thibaut Le Gouic , Paul-Marie Samson

In the regime of bounded transportation costs, additive approximations for the optimal transport problem are reduced (rather simply) to relative approximations for positive linear programs, resulting in faster additive approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Kent Quanrud

We develop a mathematical theory of entropic regularisation of unbalanced optimal transport problems. Focusing on static formulation and relying on the formalism developed for the unregularised case, we show that unbalanced optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Maciej Buze , Manh Hong Duong

This paper studies strategies to optimize the lane configuration of a transportation network for a given set of Origin-Destination demands using a planning macroscopic network flow model. The lane reversal problem is, in general, NP-hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Salomon Wollenstein-Betech , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Christos G. Cassandras

We study the inverse optimal transport problem of recovering the ground cost from an optimal transport plan. In discrete settings, this problem reduces to inverse linear programming and is intrinsically ill-posed, exhibiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Gabriel Peyré , Clarice Poon , Oscar Tron

We explore the near-term intersection of quantum computing with the transport sector. To support near-term integration, we introduce a framework for assessing the suitability of transport optimization problems for obtaining potential…

We develop a general approach to prove global regularity estimates for quadratic optimal transport using the entropic regularisation of the problem and the Prekopa-Leindler inequality.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Sylvestre

We present a simple proof of the entropy-power inequality using an optimal transportation argument which takes the form of a simple change of variables. The same argument yields a reverse inequality involving a conditional differential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Olivier Rioul

Partial Optimal Transport (POT) has recently emerged as a central tool in various Machine Learning (ML) applications. It lifts the stringent assumption of the conventional Optimal Transport (OT) that input measures are of equal masses,…