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We construct homogeneous optimal transport maps for the quadratic cost between convex cones with homogeneous, possibly degenerate, densities when the cones satisfy an obliqueness condition. The existence of such maps plays a central role in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Tristan C. Collins , Benjy Firester , Freid Tong

Doubly-stochastic matrices (DSM) are increasingly utilized in structure-preserving deep architectures -- such as Optimal Transport layers and Sinkhorn-based attention -- to enforce numerical stability and probabilistic interpretability. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yizhi Liu

The framework of optimal transport has been leveraged to extend the notion of rank to the multivariate setting while preserving desirable properties of the resulting goodness-of-fit (GoF) statistics. In particular, the rank energy (RE) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-29 Shoaib Bin Masud , Matthew Werenski , James M. Murphy , Shuchin Aeron

We study an optimal transport problem in a compact convex set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ where bulk transport is coupled to dynamic optimal transport on a metric graph $ \mathsf{G} = (\mathsf{V},\mathsf{E})$ which is embedded in $\Omega$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Marcello Carioni , Juliane Krautz , Jan-F. Pietschmann

We propose a \textbf{uni}fied \textbf{f}ramework for \textbf{i}mplicit \textbf{ge}nerative \textbf{m}odeling (UnifiGem) with theoretical guarantees by integrating approaches from optimal transport, numerical ODE, density-ratio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yuan Gao , Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Jin Liu

The robustness of quantum transport under various perturbations is analyzed in disordered interacting many-body systems, which are constructed from the embedded Gaussian random matrix ensembles (EGEs). The transport efficiency can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Adrian Ortega , Thomas Stegmann , Luis Benet

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

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

This paper develops a comprehensive theory of optimal transport for signed (real) measures on Rd. Extending the classical Brenier theorem, we consider Jordan decompositions of measures with possibly fractal singular parts. Under suitable…

We present a minimization problem with a horizontal divergence-type constraint in the Heisenberg group. Our study explores its dual formulation and examines its relationship with the congested optimal transport problem, for $1 < p <…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Michele Circelli , Albert Clop

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of tasks, especially when it comes to prediction accuracy. However, in complex real-world scenarios, particularly in safety-critical applications, high accuracy alone…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Han Liu , Peng Cui , Bingning Wang , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu

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

In this work we consider an optimal transport problem with coefficients in a normed Abelian group $G$, and extract a purely intrinsic condition on $G$ that guarantees that the optimal transport (or the corresponding minimum filling) is not…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Mircea Petrache , Roger Züst

The affine maximal type hypersurface has been a core topic in Affine Geometry. When the hypersurface is presented as a regular graph of a convex function $u$, the statement that the graph is of affine maximal type is equivalent to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Huan-Jie Chen , Shi-Zhong Du

We study an optimal transport problem where, at some intermediate time, the mass is accelerated by either an external force field, or self-interacting. We obtain regularity of the velocity potential, intermediate density, and optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Jiakun Liu , Grégoire Loeper

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

Let $(X,d,m)$ be a proper, non-branching, metric measure space. We show existence and uniqueness of optimal transport maps for cost written as non-decreasing and strictly convex functions of the distance, provided $(X,d,m)$ satisfies a new…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Fabio Cavalletti , Martin Huesmann

Optimal Transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for learning minimal-displacement maps between distributions. The predominant approach involves a neural parametrization of the Monge formulation of OT, typically assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Athina Sotiropoulou , David Alvarez-Melis

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 study Benamou's domain decomposition algorithm for optimal transport in the entropy regularized setting. The key observation is that the regularized variant converges to the globally optimal solution under very mild assumptions. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Mauro Bonafini , Bernhard Schmitzer