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Intelligent transportation systems have recently emerged to address the growing interest for safer, more efficient, and sustainable transportation solutions. In this direction, this paper presents distributed algorithms for control and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Optimal transport (OT) has become exceedingly popular in machine learning, data science, and computer vision. The core assumption in the OT problem is the equal total amount of mass in source and target measures, which limits its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yikun Bai , Berhnard Schmitzer , Mathew Thorpe , Soheil Kolouri

We propose a protocol optimization technique that is applicable to both weighted or unweighted graphs. Our aim is to explore by how much a small variation around the Shortest Path or Optimal Path protocols can enhance protocol performance.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Jose J. Ramasco , Marta S. de la Lama , Eduardo Lopez , Stefan Boettcher

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yukuan Hu , Huajie Chen , Xin Liu

We survey recent advances in algorithms for route planning in transportation networks. For road networks, we show that one can compute driving directions in milliseconds or less even at continental scale. A variety of techniques provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Hannah Bast , Daniel Delling , Andrew Goldberg , Matthias Müller-Hannemann , Thomas Pajor , Peter Sanders , Dorothea Wagner , Renato F. Werneck

Approximating the set of reachable states of a dynamical system is an algorithmic yet mathematically rigorous way to reason about its safety. Although progress has been made in the development of efficient algorithms for affine dynamical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Sergiy Bogomolov , Marcelo Forets , Goran Frehse , Andreas Podelski , Christian Schilling , Frédéric Viry

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

Piecewise linearization is a key technique for solving nonlinear problems in transportation network design and other optimization fields, in which generating breakpoints is a fundamental task. This paper proposes an optimal breakpoint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Shaojun Liu

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

We present a fast multiscale approach for the network minimum logarithmic arrangement problem. This type of arrangement plays an important role in a network compression and fast node/link access operations. The algorithm is of linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-30 Ilya Safro , Boris Temkin

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-13 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

Optimal transport aligns samples across distributions by minimizing the transportation cost between them, e.g., the geometric distances. Yet, it ignores coherence structure in the data such as clusters, does not handle outliers well, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ching-Yao Chuang , Stefanie Jegelka , David Alvarez-Melis

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Optimal mass transport is described by an approximation of transport cost via semi-discrete costs. The notions of optimal partition and optimal strong partition are given as well. We also suggest an algorithm for computation of Optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Gershon Wolansky

Reconfigurable multi-robot cells offer a promising approach to meet fluctuating assembly demands. However, the recurrent planning of their configurations introduces new challenges, particularly in generating optimized, coordinated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Loris Schneider , Marc Ungen , Elias Huber , Jan-Felix Klein

We consider the problem of finding an optimal transport plan between an absolutely continuous measure $\mu$ on $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a finitely supported measure $\nu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the transport cost is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Valentin Hartmann , Dominic Schuhmacher

The aim of this work is to develop general optimization methods for finite difference schemes used to approximate linear differential equations. The specific case of the transport equation is exposed. In particular, the minimization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

An adaptive, adversarial methodology is developed for the optimal transport problem between two distributions $\mu$ and $\nu$, known only through a finite set of independent samples $(x_i)_{i=1..N}$ and $(y_j)_{j=1..M}$. The methodology…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Montacer Essid , Debra Laefer , Esteban G. Tabak

Many real-world control systems, such as the smart grid and human sensorimotor control systems, have decentralized components that react quickly using local information and centralized components that react slowly using a more global view.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Gautam Goel , Niangjun Chen , Adam Wierman

In the regime of bounded transportation costs, additive approximations for the optimal transport problem are reduced (rather simply) to relative approximations for positive linear programs, resulting in faster additive approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Kent Quanrud