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In this paper we study the class of optimal entropy-transport problems introduced by Liero, Mielke and Savar\'e in Inventiones Mathematicae 211 in 2018. This class of unbalanced transport metrics allows for transport between measures of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 David P. Bourne , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal solution is obtained from the long-time limit of the gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Enrico Facca , Michele Benzi

To remedy the drawbacks of full-mass or fixed-mass constraints in classical optimal transport, we propose adaptive optimal transport which is distinctive from the classical optimal transport in its ability of adaptive-mass preserving. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Pei Yang , Qi Tan , Guihua Wen

Electric vehicles (EVs) play a significant role in enhancing the sustainability of transportation systems. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by inadequate public charging infrastructure, particularly to support long-distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Tina Radvand , Alireza Talebpour , Homa Khosravian

In this paper, we study dynamical optimal transport on a connected graph from the perspective of the Benamou-Brenier formulation, where densities are assigned to vertices and velocities to edges. However, directly using Newton's method on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Qujiangxue Chen , Jianbo Cui , Luca Dieci , Haomin Zhou

This paper introduces a numerical algorithm to compute the $L_2$ optimal transport map between two measures $\mu$ and $\nu$, where $\mu$ derives from a density $\rho$ defined as a piecewise linear function (supported by a tetrahedral mesh),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Bruno Levy

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

In minimum-cost inverse optimization problems, we are given a feasible solution to an underlying optimization problem together with a linear cost function, and the goal is to modify the costs by a small deviation vector so that the input…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Kristóf Bérczi , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Kitti Varga

We consider distributed optimization problems where networked nodes cooperatively minimize the sum of their locally known convex costs. A popular class of methods to solve these problems are the distributed gradient methods, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

This paper exploit the equivalence between the Schr\"odinger Bridge problem and the entropy penalized optimal transport in order to find a different approach to the duality, in the spirit of optimal transport. This approach results in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Simone Di Marino , Augusto Gerolin

Discrete optimal transportation problems arise in various contexts in engineering, the sciences and the social sciences. Often the underlying cost criterion is unknown, or only partly known, and the observed optimal solutions are corrupted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Andrew M. Stuart , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Computing optimal transport distances such as the earth mover's distance is a fundamental problem in machine learning, statistics, and computer vision. Despite the recent introduction of several algorithms with good empirical performance,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Jason Altschuler , Jonathan Weed , Philippe Rigollet

Sinkhorn algorithm is the de-facto standard approximation algorithm for optimal transport, which has been applied to a variety of applications, including image processing and natural language processing. In theory, the proof of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kazuki Watanabe , Noboru Isobe

Many machine learning models involve solving optimization problems. Thus, it is important to deal with a large-scale optimization problem in big data applications. Recently, subsampled Newton methods have emerged to attract much attention…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Zhihua Zhang

We show that, on a $2$-dimensional compact manifold, the optimal transport map in the semi-discrete random matching problem is well-approximated in the $L^2$-norm by identity plus the gradient of the solution to the Poisson problem $-\Delta…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Luigi Ambrosio , Federico Glaudo , Dario Trevisan

This paper attempts to solve the famous Vehicle Routing Problem by considering multiple constraints including capacitated vehicles, single depot, and distance using two approaches namely, cluster first and route the second algorithm and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Apurv Choudhari , Ameya Ekbote , Prerona Chaudhuri

We show that the discrete Sinkhorn algorithm - as applied in the setting of Optimal Transport on a compact manifold - converges to the solution of a fully non-linear parabolic PDE of Monge-Ampere type, in a large-scale limit. The latter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Robert J. Berman

This paper studies distributed stochastic nonconvex optimization problems with compressed communication and differential privacy, in which each agent aims to minimize the sum of all agents' cost functions by using local compressed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Antai Xie , Xiaoqiang Ren , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Xiaofan Wang

In [Q. Liao et al., Commun. Math. Sci., 20(2022)], a linear-time Sinkhorn algorithm is developed based on dynamic programming, which significantly reduces the computational complexity involved in solving optimal transport problems. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Ziyuan Lyu , Zihao Wang , Hao Wu , Shuai Yang