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We consider the model of a transportation problem with the objective of finding a minimum-cost transportation plan for shipping a given commodity from a set of supply centers to the customers. Since the exact values of supply and demand and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Elif Garajová , Miroslav Rada

We establish a general condition on the cost function to obtain uniqueness and Monge solutions in the multi-marginal optimal transport problem, under the assumption that a given collection of the marginals are absolutely continuous with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Brendan Pass , Adolfo Vargas-Jiménez

Stability of the value function and the set of minimizers w.r.t. the given data is a desirable feature of optimal transport problems. For the classical Kantorovich transport problem, stability is satisfied under mild assumptions and in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Martin Brückerhoff , Nicolas Juillet

In recent years, two prominent paradigms have shaped distributionally robust optimization (DRO), modeling distributional ambiguity through $\phi$-divergences and Wasserstein distances, respectively. While the former focuses on ambiguity in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Jose Blanchet , Daniel Kuhn , Jiajin Li , Bahar Taskesen

We extend the dimension free Talagrand inequalities for convex distance \cite{talagrand:1995} using an extension of Marton's weak transport \cite{marton:1996a} to other metrics than the Hamming distance. We study the dual form of these weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Olivier Wintenberger

We study the transportation problem on the unit sphere $S^{n-1}$ for symmetric probability measures and the cost function $c(x,y) = \log \frac{1}{\langle x, y \rangle}$. We calculate the variation of the corresponding Kantorovich functional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov

We investigate the convergence rate of the optimal entropic cost $v_\varepsilon$ to the optimal transport cost as the noise parameter $\varepsilon \downarrow 0$. We show that for a large class of cost functions $c$ on $\mathbb{R}^d\times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Guillaume Carlier , Paul Pegon , Luca Tamanini

The Cauchy problem for a multidimensional linear transport equation with discontinuous coefficient is investigated. Provided the coefficient satisfies a one-sided Lipschitz condition, existence, uniqueness and weak stability of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francois James , Simona Mancini , Francois Bouchut

The objective of this paper is to develop a duality between a novel Entropy Martingale Optimal Transport problem (A) and an associated optimization problem (B). In (A) we follow the approach taken in the Entropy Optimal Transport (EOT)…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-30 Alessandro Doldi , Marco Frittelli

We consider optimal transport problems where the cost is optimized over controlled dynamics and the end time is free. Unlike the classical setting, the search for optimal transport plans also requires the identification of optimal "stopping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

We study an optimal weak transport cost related to the notion of convex order between probability measures. On the real line, we show that this weak transport cost is reached for a coupling that does not depend on the underlying cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Nathael Gozlan , Cyril Roberto , Paul-Marie Samson , Yan Shu , Prasad Tetali

We consider an optimal transportation problem with more than two marginals. We use a family of semi-Riemannian metrics derived from the mixed, second order partial derivatives of the cost function to provide upper bounds for the dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Brendan Pass

In this work, optimality conditions and classical results from duality theory are derived for continuous-time linear optimization problems with inequality constraints. The optimality conditions are given in the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker form. Weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Valeriano Antunes de Oliveira

By using the Picard iteration scheme, this article establishes the existence and uniqueness theory for solutions to stochastic functional differential equations driven by G-Browniain motion. Assuming the monotonicity conditions, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Faiz Faizullah

Loosely speaking, causal transport plans are a relaxation of adapted processes in the same sense as Kantorovich transport plans extend Monge-type transport maps. The corresponding causal version of the transport problem has recently been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Julio Backhoff Veraguas , Mathias Beiglböck , Yiqing Lin , Anastasiia Zalashko

In this paper, we consider Strassen's version of optimal transport (OT) problem, which concerns minimizing the excess-cost probability (i.e., the probability that the cost is larger than a given value) over all couplings of two given…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Lei Yu

Multi-marginal optimal transport plans are concentrated on c-splitting sets. It is known that, similar to the two-marginal case, c-splitting sets are c-cyclically monotone. Within a suitable framework, the converse implication was very…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Sedi Bartz , Heinz H. Bauschke , Xianfu Wang

Brenier's theorem is a cornerstone of optimal transport that guarantees the existence of an optimal transport map $T$ between two probability distributions $P$ and $Q$ over $\mathbb{R}^d$ under certain regularity conditions. The main goal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jan-Christian Hütter , Philippe Rigollet

This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

This work deals with the asymptotic distribution of both potentials and couplings of entropic regularized optimal transport for compactly supported probabilities in $\R^d$. We first provide the central limit theorem of the Sinkhorn…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Alberto Gonzalez-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Jonathan Niles-Weed