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We propose \textit{DeepMartingale}, a deep-learning framework for the dual formulation of discrete-monitoring optimal stopping problems under continuous-time models. Leveraging a martingale representation, our method implements a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Junyan Ye , Hoi Ying Wong

We consider the minimization of the $h$-mass over normal $1$-currents in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with coefficients in $\mathbb{R}^m$ and prescribed boundary. This optimization is known as multi-material transport problem and used in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We investigate existence of dual optimizers in one-dimensional martingale optimal transport problems. While [BNT16] established such existence for weak (quasi-sure) duality, [BHP13] showed existence for the natural stronger pointwise…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Mathias Beiglboeck , Tongseok Lim , Jan Obłój

We investigate the linear quadratic stochastic optimal control problems in infinite dimension without Markovian restriction for coefficients. The necessary and sufficient conditions for open-loop optimal controls are presented. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Guangdong Jing

For a function $f$ on the hypercube $\{0,1\}^n$ with Fourier expansion $f=\sum_{S\subseteq[n]}\hat f(S)\chi_S$, the hypercontractive inequality allows bounding norms of $T_\rho f=\sum_S\rho^{|S|} \hat f(S)\chi_S$ in terms of norms of $f$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz , Omri Marcus

We introduce a new non-linear optimal transport formulation for a pair of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ sharing a common barycentre, in which admissible transference plans satisfy two martingale-type constraints. This bi-martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Karol Bołbotowski

We investigate metric conditions that allow to prove existence and uniqueness of a map solving the Monge problem between two marginals in a metric (measure) space, proving two main results. Firstly, we introduce a nonsmooth version of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Shucheng Li , Mattia Magnabosco , Timo Schultz

We introduce the proximal optimal transport divergence, a novel discrepancy measure that interpolates between information divergences and optimal transport distances via an infimal convolution formulation. This divergence provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ricardo Baptista , Panagiota Birmpa , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet , Benjamin J. Zhang

The paper search for the minimum of the entropy of a two- dimensional distribution in the Fr\'echet class, the class of distributions with given marginals. The main result for discrete distributions is an algorithm for building the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Giorgio Dall'Aglio , Elisabetta Bona

Multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) is a generalization of optimal transport to multiple marginals. Optimal transport has evolved into an important tool in many machine learning applications, and its multi-marginal extension opens up for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

We study robust notions of good-deal hedging and valuation under combined uncertainty about the drifts and volatilities of asset prices. Good-deal bounds are determined by a subset of risk-neutral pricing measures such that not only…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-04-11 Dirk Becherer , Klebert Kentia

Concentration inequalities are indispensable tools for studying the generalization capacity of learning models. Hoeffding's and McDiarmid's inequalities are commonly used, giving bounds independent of the data distribution. Although this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-21 Xinxing Wu , Junping Zhang

We present a primal-dual dynamical formulation of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for (semi-)convex cost functions. Even in the two-marginal setting, this formulation applies to cost functions not covered by the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Brendan Pass , Yair Shenfeld

Motivated by various applications, this article develops the notion of boundary control for Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain. Surface curl is shown to be the appropriate regularization in order for the optimal control problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Harbir Antil , Hugo Díaz

We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Axel G. R. Turnquist

In this paper, we prove the existence of classical solutions to second boundary value prob- lems for generated prescribed Jacobian equations, as recently developed by the second author, thereby obtaining extensions of classical solvability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Feida Jiang , Neil S. Trudinger

We introduce and analyze a statistical estimator for Monge transport maps: solutions to the quadratic optimal transport problem in Euclidean space. For absolutely continuous source measures, this map is uniquely defined as the gradient of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels , Léo Portales

Inspired by applications in weighted polynomial approximation problems, we study an optimal mass distribution problem. Given a gauge function $h$ and a positive "roof" function $R$ compactly supported in $\mathbb{R}^n$, we are interested in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Linus Bergqvist , Bartosz Malman

We employ scoring functions, used in statistics for eliciting risk functionals, as cost functions in the Monge-Kantorovich (MK) optimal transport problem. This gives raise to a rich variety of novel asymmetric MK divergences, which subsume…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-11 Silvana M. Pesenti , Steven Vanduffel

We study the sharp bounds of $\mathbb{E}[X_1\cdots X_d]$ when the univariate marginal distributions are known, but the dependence structure between them is unspecified. Maximizing products over non-negative variables is straightforward via…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Christopher Blier-Wong , Jinghui Chen
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