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The dynamic formulation of optimal transport, also known as the Benamou-Brenier formulation, has been extended to the unbalanced case by introducing a source term in the continuity equation. When this source term is penalized based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mao Nishino , Martin Bauer , Tom Needham , Nicolas Charon

We formulate a finite-particle method of mass transport that accounts for general mixed boundary conditions. The particle method couples a geometrically-exact treatment of advection; Wasserstein gradient-flow dynamics; and a…

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In this paper, we present splitting algorithms to solve multicomponent transport models with Maxwell-Stefan-diffusion approaches. The multicomponent models are related to transport problems, while we consider plasma processes, in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Juergen Geiser

We consider the problem of optimizing heat transport through an incompressible fluid layer. Modeling passive scalar transport by advection-diffusion, we maximize the mean rate of total transport by a divergence-free velocity field. Subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Charles R. Doering , Ian Tobasco

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

This contribution presents substantial computational advancements to compare measures even with varying masses. Specifically, we utilize the nonequispaced fast Fourier transform to accelerate the radial kernel convolution in unbalanced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler

Optimal transport induces the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein) distance between probability distributions, a geometric divergence that is relevant to a wide range of problems. Over the last decade, two relaxations of optimal transport have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , Jean Feydy , François-Xavier Vialard , Alain Trouvé , Gabriel Peyré

We propose certain approach of solving two-dimensional non-stationary and stationary advection-diffusion-reaction boundary value problems through their reduction to the set of corresponding one-dimensional problems. This method leverages…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 R. Drebotiy , H. Shynkarenko

We study a variant of the dynamical optimal transport problem in which the energy to be minimised is modulated by the covariance matrix of the distribution. Such transport metrics arise naturally in mean-field limits of certain ensemble…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Martin Burger , Matthias Erbar , Franca Hoffmann , Daniel Matthes , André Schlichting

We consider a class of convex optimization problems modelling temporal mass transport and mass change between two given mass distributions (the so-called dynamic formulation of unbalanced transport), where we focus on those models for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

Optimal transport distances have found many applications in machine learning for their capacity to compare non-parametric probability distributions. Yet their algorithmic complexity generally prevents their direct use on large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Kilian Fatras , Thibault Séjourné , Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary

One of the most fascinating phenomena observed in reaction-diffusion systems is the emergence of segregated solutions, i.e. population densities with disjoint supports. We analyse such a reaction cross-diffusion system. In order to prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-16 José A. Carrillo , Simone Fagioli , Filippo Santambrogio , Markus Schmidtchen

We investigate optimal mass transport problem of affine-nonlinear dynamical systems with input and density constraints. Three algorithms are proposed to tackle this problem, including two Uzawa-type methods and a splitting algorithm based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

Thermodynamics serves as a universal means for studying physical systems from an energy perspective. In recent years, with the establishment of the field of stochastic and quantum thermodynamics, the ideas of thermodynamics have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-07 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flow structure in Wasserstein space to derive a notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Inwon Kim , Alpár R. Mészáros

Dynamical formulations of optimal transport (OT) frame the task of comparing distributions as a variational problem which searches for a path between distributions minimizing a kinetic energy functional. In applications, it is frequently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

This paper presents a decentralized control framework for distribution matching in multi-agent systems (MAS), where agents collectively achieve a prescribed terminal spatial distribution. The problem is formulated using optimal transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Kooktae Lee

A significant drawback of Lagrangian (particle-tracking) reactive transport models has been their inability to properly simulate interactions between solid and liquid chemical phases, such as dissolution and precipitation reactions. This…

Reconstructing dynamical evolution from limited observations is a fundamental challenge in single-cell biology, where dynamic unbalanced optimal transport provides a principled framework for modeling coupled transport and mass variation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xinyu Wang , Ruoyu Wang , Qiangwei Peng , Peijie Zhou , Tiejun Li

Sliced optimal transport reduces optimal transport on multi-dimensional domains to transport on the line. More precisely, sliced optimal transport is the concatenation of the well-known Radon transform and the cumulative density transform,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Michael Quellmalz , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl
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