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This paper considers the problem of finding a quickest path between two points in the Euclidean plane in the presence of a transportation network. A transportation network consists of a planar network where each road (edge) has an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Radwa El Shawi , Joachim Gudmundsson , Christos Levcopoulos

Given a set of points $P = (P^+ \sqcup P^-) \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ for some constant $d$ and a supply function $\mu:P\to \mathbb{R}$ such that $\mu(p) > 0~\forall p \in P^+$, $\mu(p) < 0~\forall p \in P^-$, and $\sum_{p\in P}{\mu(p)} = 0$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Emily Fox , Jiashuai Lu

Transportation cost is an attractive similarity measure between probability distributions due to its many useful theoretical properties. However, solving optimal transport exactly can be prohibitively expensive. Therefore, there has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Nathaniel Lahn , Deepika Mulchandani , Sharath Raghvendra

In this paper, we study the optimal transport problem induced by separable cost functions. In this framework, transportation can be expressed as the composition of two lower-dimensional movements. Through this reformulation, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Gennaro Auricchio

We study an optimization problem related to the approximation of given data by a linear combination of transformed modes. In the simplest case, the optimization problem reduces to a minimization problem well-studied in the context of proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Felix Black , Philipp Schulze , Benjamin Unger

One might argue that solving a trajectory optimization problem over a million grid points is preposterous. How about solving such a problem at an incredibly fast computational time? On a small form-factor processor? Algorithmic details that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 A. Javeed , D. P. Kouri , D. Ridzal , J. D. Steinman , I. M. Ross

Microtransit and other flexible transit fleet services can reduce costs by incorporating transfers. However, transfers are costly to users if they must get off a vehicle and wait at a stop for another pickup. A mixed integer linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Zhexi Fu , Joseph Y. J. Chow

The optimal transport problem studies how to transport one measure to another in the most cost-effective way and has wide range of applications from economics to machine learning. In this paper, we introduce and study an information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yikun Bai , Xiugang Wu , Ayfer Ozgur

We present a flexible method for computing Bayesian optimal experimental designs (BOEDs) for inverse problems with intractable posteriors. The approach is applicable to a wide range of BOED problems and can accommodate various optimality…

Computation · Statistics 2024-08-20 Karina Koval , Roland Herzog , Robert Scheichl

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

We investigate finding a map $g$ within a function class $G$ that minimises an Optimal Transport (OT) cost between a target measure $\nu$ and the image by $g$ of a source measure $\mu$. This is relevant when an OT map from $\mu$ to $\nu$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Eloi Tanguy , Agnès Desolneux , Julie Delon

We address optimal placement of vehicles with simple motion to intercept a mobile target that arrives stochastically on a line segment. The optimality of vehicle placement is measured through a cost function associated with intercepting the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-03-07 Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Stephen L. Smith , Francesco Bullo

Entropic optimal transport problems are regularized versions of optimal transport problems. These models play an increasingly important role in machine learning and generative modelling. For finite spaces, these problems are commonly solved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Pierre Del Moral , Joaquín Miguez

We propose new variational principles for traffic assignment problems. So to find equillibrium we have to solve large-scale convex optimization problem of special type. We propose some kind of "algebra" on different models and corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Alexander Gasnikov

Seismic traveltime tomography represents a popular and useful tool for unravelling the structure of the subsurface across the scales. In this work we address the case where the forward model is represented by the eikonal equation and derive…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Andrea Zunino , Scott Keating , Andreas Fichtner

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

We introduce a new class of objectives for optimal transport computations of datasets in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. The new objectives are parametrized by $\rho \geq 1$, and provide a metric space $\mathcal{R}_{\rho}(\cdot, \cdot)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Moses Charikar , Beidi Chen , Christopher Re , Erik Waingarten

A quadratic optimal transport metric on the set of probability measure over $\R^2$ is introduced. The quadratic cost is given by the euclidean norm on $\R^2$ associated to some well chosen symmetric positive matrix, which makes the metric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Samir Salem

This paper discusses a graph based route solving algorithm to find the optimal path for an electric vehicle picking the best charging locations among thousands to minimize the total cumulative driving distance between the end points of the…

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