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We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj

Optimal mass transport, also known as the earth mover's problem, is an optimization problem with important applications in various disciplines, including economics, probability theory, fluid dynamics, cosmology and geophysics to cite a few.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Said Kerrache , Yasushi Nakauchi

We investigate the approximation of Monge--Kantorovich problems on general compact metric spaces, showing that optimal values, plans and maps can be effectively approximated via a fully discrete method. First we approximate optimal values…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Maximiliano Frungillo

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport, also known as the Benamou-Brenier formulation, has been extended to the unbalanced case by introducing a source term in the continuity equation. When this source term is penalized based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mao Nishino , Martin Bauer , Tom Needham , Nicolas Charon

We introduce a concept of optimal transport for vector-valued measures and its dual formulation. In this note we concentrate on the semi-discrete case and show some fundamental differences between the scalar and vector cases. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Shlomi Gover , Gershon Wolansky

We study a rather general class of optimal "ballistic" transport problems for matrix-valued measures. These problems naturally arise, in the spirit of \emph{Y. Brenier. Comm. Math. Phys. (2018) 364(2) 579-605}, from a certain dual…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Dmitry Vorotnikov

We consider a Kantorovich potential associated to an optimal transportation problem between measures that are not necessarily absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure, but are comparable to the Lebesgue measure when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Antoine Mellet

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

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

We introduce the Sinkhorn treatment effect, an entropic optimal transport measure of divergence between counterfactual distributions. Unlike classical quantities such as the average treatment effect, this measure captures differences across…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Medha Agarwal , Alex Luedtke

This paper investigates the optimal transport problem within the framework of Linear Quadratic optimal control systems. We establish the well-posedness of the Monge problem and analyze the regularity of the resulting optimal transport map,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Luca Rizzi , Alec Jacopo Almo Schiavoni Piazza

We formulate and solve a class of finite-time transport and mixing problems in the set-oriented framework. The aim is to obtain optimal discrete-time perturbations in nonlinear dynamical systems to transport a specified initial measure on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Piyush Grover , Karthik Elamvazhuthi

The aim of this paper is to prove isoperimetric inequalities on submanifolds of the Euclidean space using mass transportation methods. We obtain a sharp ?weighted isoperimetric inequality? and a nonsharp classical inequality similar to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Philippe Castillon

As a generalization of the optimal mass transport (OMT) approach of Benamou and Brenier's, the regularized optimal mass transport (rOMT) formulates a transport problem from an initial mass configuration to another with the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Xinan Chen , Helene Benveniste , Allen R. Tannenbaum

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

This survey has been written in occasion of the School and Workshop about Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erd\"os Center in September 2022. We discuss some recent results on noncommutative entropic optimal transport problems and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lorenzo Portinale

We give a new proof of the Caffarelli contraction theorem, which states that the Brenier optimal transport map sending the standard Gaussian measure onto a uniformly log-concave probability measure is Lipschitz. The proof combines a recent…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Max Fathi , Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Prodhomme

In this paper, we study optimal transportation problems for multifractal random measures. Since these measures are much less regular than optimal transportation theory requires, we introduce a new notion of transportation which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-02 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Sébastien Gadat , Emilia Siviero

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