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In recent works - both experimental and theoretical - it has been shown how to use computational geometry to efficently construct approximations to the optimal transport map between two given probability measures on Euclidean space, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Robert J. Berman

We show that existence and uniqueness of solutions to transported Monge-Ampere problem on complex compact toric manifold follows easily from the real theory of optimal transportation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Szymon Myga

We propose an optimal solution to a deterministic dynamic assignment problem by leveraging connections to the theory of discrete optimal transport to convert the combinatorial assignment problem into a tractable linear program. We seek to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Koray G. Kachar , Alex A. Gorodetsky

These notes constitute a sort of Crash Course in Optimal Transport Theory. The different features of the problem of Monge-Kantorovitch are treated, starting from convex duality issues. The main properties of space of probability measures…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Filippo Santambrogio

We shall present a measure theoretical approach for which together with the Kantorovich duality provide an efficient tool to study the optimal transport problem. Specifically, we study the support of optimal plans where the cost function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Abbas Moameni

We solve a generalized Kyle model type problem using Monge-Kantorovich duality and backward stochastic partial differential equations. First, we show that the the generalized Kyle model with dynamic information can be recast into a terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Reda Chhaibi , Ibrahim Ekren , Eunjung Noh , Lu Vy

We characterize the solution to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem by a well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). Our approach works for discrete marginals and general cost functions, and in addition to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew , Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

We prove that $c$-cyclically monotone transport plans $\pi$ optimize the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem under an additional measurability condition. This measurability condition is always satisfied for finitely valued, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-09 Walter Schachermayer , Josef Teichmann

We review various numerical approaches to compute transport coefficients in molecular dynamics. These approaches can be broadly classified into three groups: (i) nonequilibrium methods based on applying an external driving field to the…

We propose an extension of the computational fluid mechanics approach to the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem, which was developed by Benamou-Brenier. Our extension allows optimal transfer of unnormalized and unequal masses. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Wilfrid Gangbo , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Michael Puthawala

We rephrase Monge's optimal transportation (OT) problem with quadratic cost--via a Monge-Amp\`ere equation--as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is in fact a convex problem when the target is a log-concave measure with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Lindsey , Yanir A. Rubinstein

Paper provides a method for solving the reverse Monge-Kantorovich transport problem (TP). It allows to accumulate positive decision-taking experience made by decision-taker in situations that can be presented in the form of TP. The initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Valery Vilisov

Optimal transportation of raw material from suppliers to customers is an issue arising in logistics that is addressed here with a continuous model relying on optimal transport theory. A physics informed neuralnetwork method is advocated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Alexandre Caboussat , Anna Peruso

We show that there is a PDE formulation in terms of Fokker-Planck equations for weak optimal transport problems. The main novelty is that we introduce a minimization problem involving Fokker-Planck equations in the extended sense of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Bohdan Bulanyi

Let (X,L) be a (semi-) polarized complex projective variety and T a real torus acting holomorphically on X with moment polytope P. Given a probability density g on P we introduce a new type of Monge-Ampere measure on X, defined for singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Robert J. Berman , David Witt Nystrom

We consider so-called branched transport and variants thereof in two space dimensions. In these models one seeks an optimal transportation network for a given mass transportation task. In two space dimensions, they are closely connected to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Carolin Dirks , Benedikt Wirth

We formulate an optimal transport problem for matrix-valued density functions. This is pertinent in the spectral analysis of multivariable time-series. The "mass" represents energy at various frequencies whereas, in addition to a usual…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Lipeng Ning , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

In this paper we present a novel method for the numerical solution of linear transport equations, which is based on ridgelets. Such equations arise for instance in radiative transfer or in phase contrast imaging. Due to the fact that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Philipp Grohs , Axel Obermeier

The multistochastic $ (n,k)$-Monge--Kantorovich problem on a product space $\prod_{i=1}^n X_i$ is an extension of the classical Monge--Kantorovich problem. This problem is considered on the space of measures with fixed projections onto…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Nikita A. Gladkov , Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Alexander P. Zimin

In this work, we introduce a novel first-order nonlocal partial differential equation with saturated diffusion to describe the macroscopic behavior of traffic dynamics. We show how the proposed model is better in comparison with existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Dawson Do , Hossein Nick Zinat Matin , Masuma Mollika Miti , Maria Laura Delle Monache