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This paper considers a nested stochastic distributed optimization problem. In it, approximate solutions to realizations of the inner-problem are leveraged to obtain a Distributed Stochastic Cubic Regularized Newton (DiSCRN) update to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Tor Anderson , Sonia Martinez

Capacity constrained optimal transport is a variant of optimal transport, which adds extra constraints on the set of feasible couplings in the original optimal transport problem to limit the mass transported between each pair of source and…

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We propose a discrete time formulation of the semi-martingale optimal transport problem based on multi-marginal entropic transport. This approach offers a new way to formulate and solve numerically the calibration problem proposed by [17],…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Grégoire Loeper

In this paper we study inexact dumped Newton method implemented in a distributed environment. We start with an original DiSCO algorithm [Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization of Self-Concordant Empirical Loss, Yuchen Zhang and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Chenxin Ma , Martin Takáč

Clustering may be the most fundamental problem in unsupervised learning which is still active in machine learning research because its importance in many applications. Popular methods like K-means, may suffer from instability as they are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Yancheng Yuan , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh

Thresholding algorithms for sparse optimization problems involve two key components: search directions and thresholding strategies. In this paper, we use the compressed Newton direction as a search direction, derived by confining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nan Meng , Yun-Bin Zhao

Optimal mass transport is described by an approximation of transport cost via semi-discrete costs. The notions of optimal partition and optimal strong partition are given as well. We also suggest an algorithm for computation of Optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Gershon Wolansky

In this paper we describe a fast algorithm for generating periodic RVEs of polycrystalline materials. In particular, we use the damped Newton method from semi-discrete optimal transport theory to generate 3D periodic Laguerre tessellations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 D. P. Bourne , M. Pearce , S. M. Roper

We propose two deep neural network-based methods for solving semi-martingale optimal transport problems. The first method is based on a relaxation/penalization of the terminal constraint, and is solved using deep neural networks. The second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

We discuss the mathematical modeling and numerical discretization of transport problems on one-dimensional networks. Suitable coupling conditions are derived that guarantee conservation of mass across network junctions and dissipation of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Herbert Egger , Nora Philippi

Efficient algorithms for solving optimal transport problems are important for measuring and optimizing distances between functions. In the $L^2$ semi-discrete context, this problem consists of finding a map from a continuous density…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Philip Claude Caplan

Discrete optimal transport solvers do not scale well on dense large problems since they do not explicitly exploit the geometric structure of the cost function. In analogy to continuous optimal transport we provide a framework to verify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Bernhard Schmitzer

We present a primal--dual memory efficient algorithm for solving a relaxed version of the general transportation problem. Our approach approximates the original cost function with a differentiable one that is solved as a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Mariano Rivera

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

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

Sequential implicit (SI) formulations are gaining increasing interest due to their ability to decouple reservoir simulation problems into distinct flow and transport subproblems, allowing for the use of specialized solvers tailored to each.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Omar Chaabi , Mohammed Al-Kobaisi

This paper proposes a novel distributed semismooth Newton based augmented Lagrangian method for solving a class of optimization problems over networks, where the global objective is defined as the sum of locally held cost functions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Qihao Ma , Chengjing Wang , Peipei Tang , Dunbiao Niu , Aimin Xu

Optimal transport (OT) finds a least cost transport plan between two probability distributions using a cost matrix defined on pairs of points. Unlike standard OT, which infers unstructured pointwise mappings, low-rank optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Henri Schmidt , Peter Halmos , Ben Raphael

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Xun Tang , Holakou Rahmanian , Michael Shavlovsky , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

This paper provides a theoretical and numerical approach to show existence, uniqueness, and the numerical determination of metalenses refracting radiation with energy patterns. The theoretical part uses ideas from optimal transport and for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Cristian E. Gutiérrez , Qingbo Huang , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert