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Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

The problem of finding the shortest path for a vehicle visiting a given sequence of target points subject to the motion constraints of the vehicle is an important problem that arises in several monitoring and surveillance applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Sivakumar Rathinam , Pramod Khargonekar

A method is presented to solve a stochastic, nonlinear optimal control problem representative of spacecraft trajectory design under uncertainty. The problem is reformulated as a chance constrained nonlinear program, or what is known as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-05 William Fife , Pradipto Ghosh , Kyle DeMars

Given a graph $G = (V, E)$, we wish to compute a spanning tree whose maximum vertex degree, i.e. tree degree, is as small as possible. Computing the exact optimal solution is known to be NP-hard, since it generalizes the Hamiltonian path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ran Duan , Haoqing He , Tianyi Zhang

We propose a centralized transportation system that integrates public transit with ridesharing to provide multimodal transportation. At each time interval, the system receives a set of personal drivers, designated drivers, and public…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

Given a graph $G$ and a set of terminals $T$, a \emph{distance emulator} of $G$ is another graph $H$ (not necessarily a subgraph of $G$) containing $T$, such that all the pairwise distances in $G$ between vertices of $T$ are preserved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Hsien-Chih Chang , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

The Stacker Crane Problem is NP-Hard and the best known approximation algorithm only provides a 9/5 approximation ratio. The objective of this paper is threefold. First, by embedding the problem within a stochastic framework, we present a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Kyle Treleaven , Marco Pavone , Emilio Frazzoli

We consider a facility location problem, where the objective is to ``disperse'' a number of facilities, i.e., select a given number k of locations from a discrete set of n candidates, such that the average distance between selected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Henk Meijer

Continuous approximation (CA) models have been widely adopted in transit network design studies due to their strong analytical tractability and high computational efficiency. However, such models are typically formulated as nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Haoyang Mao , Weihua Gu , Wenbo Fan , Zhicheng Jin , Xiaokuan Zhao

In the Demand Strip Packing problem (DSP), we are given a time interval and a collection of tasks, each characterized by a processing time and a demand for a given resource (such as electricity, computational power, etc.). A feasible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Waldo Gálvez , Fabrizio Grandoni , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Kamyar Khodamoradi

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful framework to compare probability measures, a fundamental task in many statistical and machine learning problems. Substantial advances have been made in designing OT variants which are either…

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We describe a $\frac{4}{3}$-approximation algorithm for the traveling salesman problem in which the distances between points are induced by graph-theoretical distances in an unweighted graph. The algorithm is based on finding a minimum cost…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering the $W_2$-optimal transport map T between absolutely continuous measures $\mu,\nu\in\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ as the flow of a linear-control neural ODE, where the control depends only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Alessandro Scagliotti , Sara Farinelli

We propose a volumetric formulation for computing the Optimal Transport problem defined on surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, found in disciplines like optics, computer graphics, and computational methodologies. Instead of directly tackling the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Richard Tsai , Axel G. R. Turnquist

This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover , Spring Berman

The graph matching problem seeks to find an alignment between the nodes of two graphs that minimizes the number of adjacency disagreements. Solving the graph matching is increasingly important due to it's applications in operations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-11 Ali Saad-Eldin , Benjamin D. Pedigo , Carey E. Priebe , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Our work departs from the original definition of the Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) and extends it by considering an interchange point (crossdock) where vehicles can exchange their goods with other vehicles in order to shorten their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis , Amalia Nikolopoulou

This paper presents a framework for computing the Gromov-Wasserstein problem between two sets of points in low dimensional spaces, where the discrepancy is the squared Euclidean norm. The Gromov-Wasserstein problem is a generalization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Martin Ryner , Jan Kronqvist , Johan Karlsson