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We discuss several optimization procedures to solve finite element approximations of linear-quadratic Dirichlet optimal control problems governed by an elliptic partial differential equation posed on a 2D or 3D Lipschitz domain. The control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Mariano Mateos

This chapter describes techniques for the numerical resolution of optimal transport problems. We will consider several discretizations of these problems, and we will put a strong focus on the mathematical analysis of the algorithms to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Quentin Merigot , Boris Thibert

We consider the simultaneous optimal transportation of measures, where the target marginal is not necessarily fixed. For this problem, we prove the existence of a solution for completely regular spaces and investigate the structure of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Kirill Sokolov

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

The aim of the present paper is to extend Kantorovich's mass transport problem to the framework of upper/lower continuous capacities and to prove the cyclic monotonicity of the supports of optimal supermodular plans. As in the probabilistic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Sorin G. Gal , Constantin P. Niculescu

We present a numerical method for solving the Monge-Ampere equation based on the characterization of the solution of the Dirichlet problem as the minimizer of a convex functional of the gradient and under convexity and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Gerard Awanou , Leopold Matamba Messi

First, we analyze the discrete Monge--Kantorovich problem, linking it with the minimization problem of linear functionals over adjoint orbits. Second, we consider its generalization to the setting of area preserving diffeomorphisms of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Anthony M. Bloch , Tudor S. Ratiu

The classical duality theory of Kantorovich and Kellerer for the classical optimal transport is generalized to an abstract framework and a characterization of the dual elements is provided. This abstract generalization is set in a Banach…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Ibrahim Ekren , H. Mete Soner

We propose a new algorithm to approximate the Earth Mover's distance (EMD). Our main idea is motivated by the theory of optimal transport, in which EMD can be reformulated as a familiar $L_1$ type minimization. We use a regularization which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wilfrid Gangbo

We consider symmetric multi-marginal Kantorovich optimal transport problems on finite state spaces with uniform-marginal constraint. These problems consist of minimizing a linear objective function over a high-dimensional polytope, here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Daniela Vögler

We consider the minimization problem for an integral functional $J$, possibly non-convex and non-coercive in $W^{1,1}_0(\Omega)$, where $\Omega\subset\R^n$ is a bounded smooth set. We prove sufficient conditions in order to guarantee that a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 G. Crasta , A. Malusa

We present a new approach for computing approximate global minimizers to a large class of non-local pairwise interaction problems defined over probability distributions. The approach predicts candidate global minimizers, with a recovery…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Mahdi Bandegi , David Shirokoff

A new primal-dual algorithm is presented for solving a class of non-convex minimization problems. This algorithm is based on canonical duality theory such that the original non-convex minimization problem is first reformulated as a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Changzhi Wu , Chaojie Li , David Yang Gao

This paper studies the uniqueness of solutions to the dual optimal transport problem, both qualitatively and quantitatively (bounds on the diameter of the set of optimisers). On the qualitative side, we prove that when one marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 William Ford

In this work we study a modification of the Monge-Kantorovich problem taking into account path dependence and interaction effects between particles. We prove existence of solutions under mild conditions on the data, and after imposing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Rene Cabrera

This paper mainly addresses the optimization of $p$-th moment of $\mathbb{R}^n$-valued random variable. Through an ingenious approximation mechanism, one transforms the maximization problem into a sequence of minimization problems, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Xiaojun Lu , Yanhua Wu

As the title suggests, this is the third paper in a series addressing bilevel optimization problems that are governed by the Kantorovich problem of optimal transport. These tasks can be reformulated as mathematical problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Sebastian Hillbrecht

The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

We study the Kantorovich-Rubinstein transhipment problem when the difference between the source and the target is not anymore a balanced measure but belongs to a suitable subspace $X(\Omega)$ of first order distribution. A particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Guy Bouchitté , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Luigi De Pascale

We study solutions to the multi-marginal Monge-Kantorovich problem which are concentrated on several graphs over the first marginal. We first present two general conditions on the cost function which ensure, respectively, that any solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Abbas Moameni , Brendan Pass