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We consider the space of probability measures on a discrete set $X$, endowed with a dynamical optimal transport metric. Given two probability measures supported in a subset $Y \subseteq X$, it is natural to ask whether they can be connected…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas , Melchior Wirth

In this note, we extend the regularity theory for monotone measure-preserving maps, also known as optimal transports for the quadratic cost optimal transport problem, to the case when the support of the target measure is an arbitrary convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alessio Figalli , Yash Jhaveri

In this paper, we extend the scope of Caffarelli's contraction theorem, which provides a measure of the Lipschitz constant for optimal transport maps between log-concave probability densities in $\R^d$. Our focus is on a broader category of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Guillaume Carlier , Alessio Figalli , Filippo Santambrogio

Learning a transport model that maps a source distribution to a target distribution is a canonical problem in machine learning, but scientific applications increasingly require models that can generalize to source and target distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nic Fishman , Gokul Gowri , Paolo L. B. Fischer , Marinka Zitnik , Omar Abudayyeh , Jonathan Gootenberg

We consider the multi-marginal optimal transport of aligning several compactly supported marginals on the Heisenberg group to minimize the total cost, which we take to be the sum of the squared Carnot-Carath\'eodory distances from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Brendan Pass , Andrea Pinamonti , Mattia Vedovato

Optimal transport (OT) is a versatile framework for comparing probability measures, with many applications to statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. However, OT distances suffer from computational and statistical scalability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato , Gabriel Rioux , Ritwik Sadhu

This note exposes the differential topology and geometry underlying some of the basic phenomena of optimal transportation. It surveys basic questions concerning Monge maps and Kantorovich measures: existence and regularity of the former,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Robert J McCann

We study dynamical optimal transport metrics between density matrices associated to symmetric Dirichlet forms on finite-dimensional $C^*$-algebras. Our setting covers arbitrary skew-derivations and it provides a unified framework that…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Eric A. Carlen , Jan Maas

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

The dual problem of optimal transportation in Lorentz-Finsler geometry is studied. It is shown that in general no solution exists even in the presence of an optimal coupling. Under natural assumptions dual solutions are established. It is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Martin Kell , Stefan Suhr

For probability measures on countable spaces we derive distributional limits for empirical entropic optimal transport quantities. More precisely, we show that the empirical optimal transport plan weakly converges to a centered Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Shayan Hundrieser , Marcel Klatt , Axel Munk

Multi-marginal optimal transport enables one to compare multiple probability measures, which increasingly finds application in multi-task learning problems. One practical limitation of multi-marginal transport is computational scalability…

The goal of the present work is three-fold. The first goal is to set foundational results on optimal transport in Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces, including cyclical monotonicity, stability of optimal couplings and Kantorovich duality…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

We consider the numerical solution of the optimal transport problem between densities that are supported on sets of unequal dimension. Recent work by McCann and Pass reformulates this problem into a non-local Monge-Amp\`ere type equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Matthew A. Cassini , Brittany Froese Hamfeldt

In this paper, we introduce and develop the theory of semimartingale optimal transport in a path dependent setting. Instead of the classical constraints on marginal distributions, we consider a general framework of path dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Ivan Guo , Gregoire Loeper

We consider weak optimal problems (possibly entropically penalized) incorporating both soft and hard (including the case of the martingale condition) moment constraints. Even in the special case of the martingale optimal transport problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Guillaume Carlier , Hugo Malamut , Maxime Sylvestre

Motivated by the manifold hypothesis, which states that data with a high extrinsic dimension may yet have a low intrinsic dimension, we develop refined statistical bounds for entropic optimal transport that are sensitive to the intrinsic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Austin J. Stromme

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

Entropic optimal transport -- the optimal transport problem regularized by KL diver\-gence -- is highly successful in statistical applications. Thanks to the smoothness of the entropic coupling, its sample complexity avoids the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Alberto González-Sanz , Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz