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One of the most important combinatorial optimization problems is graph coloring. There are several variations of this problem involving additional constraints either on vertices or edges. They constitute models for real applications, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Rosiane de Freitas , Bruno Dias , Nelson Maculan , Jayme Szwarcfiter

In this paper, we propose a flow-based method for learning all-to-all transfer maps among conditional distributions that approximates pairwise optimal transport. The proposed method addresses the challenge of handling the case of continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kotaro Ikeda , Masanori Koyama , Jinzhe Zhang , Kohei Hayashi , Kenji Fukumizu

We construct an efficient primal-dual forward-backward (PDFB) splitting method for computing a class of minimizing movement schemes with nonlinear mobility transport distances, and apply it to computing Wasserstein-like gradient flows. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Yunhong Deng , Li Wang , Chaozhen Wei

We construct Two-Point Flux Approximation (TPFA) finite volume schemes to solve the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamic form, namely the problem originally introduced by Benamou and Brenier. We show numerically that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

We develop a fast and reliable method for solving large-scale optimal transport (OT) problems at an unprecedented combination of speed and accuracy. Built on the celebrated Douglas-Rachford splitting technique, our method tackles the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Vien V. Mai , Jacob Lindbäck , Mikael Johansson

The least gradient problem (minimizing the total variation with given boundary data) is equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain, which is in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Filippo Santambrogio , Samer Dweik

Numerical simulations including magnetic fields have become important in many fields of astrophysics. Evolution of magnetic fields by the constrained transport algorithm preserves magnetic divergence to machine precision, and thus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jason Maron , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Jeffrey Oishi

Numerical methods for the optimal transport problem is an active area of research. Recent work of Kitagawa and Abedin shows that the solution of a time-dependent equation converges exponentially fast as time goes to infinity to the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Abigail Brauer , Megan Krawick , Manuel Santana

We introduce and study a new optimal transport problem on a bounded domain $\bar\Omega \subset \mathbb R^d$, defined via a dynamical Benamou-Brenier formulation. The model handles differently the motion in the interior and on the boundary,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Léonard Monsaingeon

This paper introduces a numerical algorithm to compute the $L_2$ optimal transport map between two measures $\mu$ and $\nu$, where $\mu$ derives from a density $\rho$ defined as a piecewise linear function (supported by a tetrahedral mesh),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Bruno Levy

Uncertain dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians or vehicles, pose a major challenge for optimal robot navigation with safety guarantees. Previous work on motion planning has followed two main strategies to provide a safe bound on an…

Theoretical and experimental values to date for the resistances of single molecules commonly disagree by orders of magnitude. By reformulating the transport problem using boundary conditions suitable for correlated many-electron systems, we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Delaney , J. C. Greer

Selecting the fastest algorithm for a specific signal/image processing task is a challenging question. We propose an approach based on the Performance Estimation Problem framework that numerically and automatically computes the worst-case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Nizar Bousselmi , Nelly Pustelnik , Julien M. Hendrickx , François Glineur

Random constraint satisfaction problems can exhibit a phase where the number of constraints per variable $\alpha$ makes the system solvable in theory on the one hand, but also makes the search for a solution hard, meaning that common…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-11 Angelo Giorgio Cavaliere , Thibault Lesieur , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Drawings of non-planar graphs always result in edge crossings. When there are many edges crossing at small angles, it is often difficult to follow these edges, because of the multiple visual paths resulted from the crossings that slow down…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Yifan Hu , Lei Shi

It has been hypothesized that the most likely atomic rearrangement mechanism during grain boundary (GB) migration is the one that minimizes the lengths of atomic displacements in the dichromatic pattern. In this work, we recast the problem…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-07 Ian Chesser , Elizabeth Holm , Brandon Runnels

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport has attracted growing interests in scientific computing and machine learning, and its computation requires to solve a PDE-constrained optimization problem. The classical Eulerian discretization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei Wan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Bin Dong , Zuoqiang Shi

We study an optimization problem related to the approximation of given data by a linear combination of transformed modes. In the simplest case, the optimization problem reduces to a minimization problem well-studied in the context of proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Felix Black , Philipp Schulze , Benjamin Unger

This paper introduces a novel neural network-based approach to solving the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with the transport boundary condition, specifically targeted towards optical design applications. We leverage multilayer perceptron networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Roel Hacking , Lisa Kusch , Koondanibha Mitra , Martijn Anthonissen , Wilbert IJzerman

Efficient algorithms for solving optimal transport problems are important for measuring and optimizing distances between functions. In the $L^2$ semi-discrete context, this problem consists of finding a map from a continuous density…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Philip Claude Caplan