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We propose a new randomized method for solving systems of nonlinear equations, which can find sparse solutions or solutions under certain simple constraints. The scheme only takes gradients of component functions and uses Bregman…

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Recently, Sinkhorn's algorithm was applied for approximately solving linear programs emerging from optimal transport very efficiently. This was accomplished by formulating a regularized version of the linear program as Bregman projection…

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The Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem plays increasingly important roles in computational biology, computational imaging and deep learning. Scaling algorithm is widely used to solve UOT due to its convenience and good convergence…

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Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

This paper studies the equitable and optimal transport (EOT) problem, which has many applications such as fair division problems and optimal transport with multiple agents etc. In the discrete distributions case, the EOT problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

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…

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We propose an extension of a special form of gradient descent -- in the literature known as linearised Bregman iteration -- to a larger class of non-convex functions. We replace the classical (squared) two norm metric in the gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Martin Benning , Marta M. Betcke , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, we develop a splitting algorithm incorporating Bregman distances to solve a broad class of linearly constrained composite optimization problems, whose objective function is the separable sum of possibly nonconvex nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Andrew Eberhard , Nargiz Sultanova

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

The numerical properties of algorithms for finding the intersection of sets depend to some extent on the regularity of the sets, but even more importantly on the regularity of the intersection. The alternating projection algorithm of von…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 D. Russell Luke

We propose three iterative methods for solving the Moser-Veselov equation, which arises in the discretization of the Euler-Arnold differential equations governing the motion of a generalized rigid body. We start by formulating the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Joao R. Cardoso , Pedro Miraldo

Computing exact Optimal Transport (OT) distances for large-scale datasets is computationally prohibitive. While entropy-regularized alternatives offer speed, they sacrifice precision and frequently suffer from numerical instability in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jianting Pan , Ji'an Li , Ming Yan

We study the optimal transport problem for $d>2$ discrete measures. This is a linear programming problem on $d$-tensors. It gives a way to compute a "distance" between two sets of discrete measures. We introduce an entropic regularization…

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We study the application of the Augmented Lagrangian Method to the solution of linear ill-posed problems. Previously, linear convergence rates with respect to the Bregman distance have been derived under the classical assumption of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Klaus Frick , Markus Grasmair

In this paper we study the BV regularity for solutions of variational problems in Optimal Transportation. As an application we recover BV estimates for solutions of some non-linear parabolic PDE by means of optimal transportation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Guido De Philippis , Alpár Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio , Bozhidar Velichkov

Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

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We introduce and analyze a statistical estimator for Monge transport maps: solutions to the quadratic optimal transport problem in Euclidean space. For absolutely continuous source measures, this map is uniquely defined as the gradient of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels , Léo Portales

We consider an optimal transport problem on the unit simplex whose solutions are given by gradients of exponentially concave functions and prove two main results. First, we show that the optimal transport is the large deviation limit of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Soumik Pal , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

Several novel mixed-integer linear and bilinear formulations are proposed for the optimum communication spanning tree problem. They implement the distance-based approach: graph distances are directly modeled by continuous, integral, or…

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