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This paper addresses the Optimal Transport problem, which is regularized by the square of Euclidean $\ell_2$-norm. It offers theoretical guarantees regarding the iteration complexities of the Sinkhorn--Knopp algorithm, Accelerated Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Michael Persiianov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Efficient computation of the optimal transport distance between two distributions serves as an algorithm subroutine that empowers various applications. This paper develops a scalable first-order optimization-based method that computes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gen Li , Yanxi Chen , Yu Huang , Yuejie Chi , H. Vincent Poor , Yuxin Chen

We introduce and prove convergence of a damped Newton algorithm to approximate solutions of the semi-discrete optimal transport problem with storage fees, corresponding to a problem with hard capacity constraints. This is a variant of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Mohit Bansil , Jun Kitagawa

Semi-discrete transport can be characterized in terms of real-valued shifts. Often, but not always, the solution to the shift-characterized problem partitions the continuous region. This paper gives examples of when partitioning fails, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-29 J. D. Walsh

We study the optimal transport problem in the Euclidean space where the cost function is given by the value function associated with a Linear Quadratic minimization problem. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier's Theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Ahed Hindawi , Ludovic Rifford , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

We study couplings $q^\bullet$ of two equivariant random measures $\lambda^\bullet$ and $\mu^\bullet$ on a Riemannian manifold $(M,d,m)$. Given a cost function we ask for minimizers of the mean transportation cost per volume. In case the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Martin Huesmann

We introduce a new technique, which we call the boundary method, for solving semi-discrete optimal transport problems with a wide range of cost functions. The boundary method reduces the effective dimension of the problem, thus improving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Luca Dieci , J. D. Walsh

We present an iterative method to efficiently solve the optimal transportation problem for a class of strictly convex costs which includes quadratic and p-power costs. Given two probability measures supported on a discrete grid with n…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Matt Jacobs , Flavien Léger

Optimal transport and its related problems, including optimal partial transport, have proven to be valuable tools in machine learning for computing meaningful distances between probability or positive measures. This success has led to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinran Liu , Yikun Bai , Huy Tran , Zhanqi Zhu , Matthew Thorpe , Soheil Kolouri

We show that, on a $2$-dimensional compact manifold, the optimal transport map in the semi-discrete random matching problem is well-approximated in the $L^2$-norm by identity plus the gradient of the solution to the Poisson problem $-\Delta…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Luigi Ambrosio , Federico Glaudo , Dario Trevisan

We consider the problem of optimal transportation with quadratic cost between a empirical measure and a general target probability on R d , with d $\ge$ 1. We provide new results on the uniqueness and stability of the associated optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Eustasio Del Barrio , Jean-Michel Loubes

This paper deals with the existence of optimal transport maps for some optimal transport problems with a convex but non strictly convex cost. We give a decomposition strategy to address this issue. As part of our strategy, we have to treat…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-09-16 Guillaume Carlier , Luigi De Pascale , Filippo Santambrogio

Semi-discrete optimal transport problems, which evaluate the Wasserstein distance between a discrete and a generic (possibly non-discrete) probability measure, are believed to be computationally hard. Even though such problems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Bahar Taskesen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn

We investigate the average minimum cost of a bipartite matching between two samples of n independent random points uniformly distributed on a unit cube in d $\ge$ 3 dimensions, where the matching cost between two points is given by any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Michael Goldman , Dario Trevisan

We compute exact second-order asymptotics for the cost of an optimal solution to the entropic optimal transport problem in the continuous-to-discrete, or semi-discrete, setting. In contrast to the discrete-discrete or continuous-continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Jason M. Altschuler , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Austin J. Stromme

Since the introduction of the Sliced Wasserstein distance in the literature, its simplicity and efficiency have made it one of the most interesting surrogate for the Wasserstein distance in image processing and machine learning. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Eloi Tanguy , Laetitia Chapel , Julie Delon

In this work, we solve a discrete optimal transport problem in a nonuniform environment. To solve the optimal transport problem, we build the cost matrix and then use classical solvers for discrete optimal transport. The challenge is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Jun Kitagawa

We show that in any complete metric space the probability measures $\mu$ with compact and connected support are the ones having the property that the optimal tranportation distance to any other probability measure $\nu$ living on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Heikki Jylhä , Tapio Rajala

Entropically regularized optimal transport between probability measures supported on compact subsets of Euclidean space admits a representation as an information projection under moment inequality constraints. Exploiting this structure, I…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Rami V. Tabri