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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Erwan Stampfli

We construct Two-Point Flux Approximation (TPFA) finite volume schemes to solve the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamic form, namely the problem originally introduced by Benamou and Brenier. We show numerically that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

A generalized unbalanced optimal transport distance ${\rm WB}_{\Lambda}$ on matrix-valued measures $\mathcal{M}(\Omega,\mathbb{S}_+^n)$ was defined in [arXiv:2011.05845] \`{a} la Benamou-Brenier, which extends the Kantorovich-Bures and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Bowen Li , Jun Zou

In this paper we consider the Benamou-Brenier formulation of optimal transport for nonlinear control affine systems on $\Rd$, removing the compactness assumption of the underlying manifold in previous work by the author. By using Bernard's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Karthik Elamvazhuthi

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport, also known as the Benamou-Brenier formulation, has been extended to the unbalanced case by introducing a source term in the continuity equation. When this source term is penalized based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mao Nishino , Martin Bauer , Tom Needham , Nicolas Charon

One of the crucial features of optimal transport on Riemannian manifolds is the equivalence of the `static', original, formulation of the problem and of the `dynamic' one, based on the study of the continuity equation. This furnishes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Nicola Gigli , Felix Rott , Matteo Zanardini

This article reviews the use of first order convex optimization schemes to solve the discretized dynamic optimal transport problem, initially proposed by Benamou and Brenier. We develop a staggered grid discretization that is well adapted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Nicolas Papadakis , Gabriel Peyré , Edouard Oudet

We propose a technique for interpolating between probability distributions on discrete surfaces, based on the theory of optimal transport. Unlike previous attempts that use linear programming, our method is based on a dynamical formulation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Hugo Lavenant , Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Justin Solomon

We introduce a Benamou-Brenier formulation for the continuous-time martingale optimal transport problem as a weak length relaxation of its discrete-time counterpart. By the correspondence between classical martingale problems and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Martin Huesmann , Dario Trevisan

This paper deals with dynamical optimal transport metrics defined by spatial discretisation of the Benamou--Benamou formula for the Kantorovich metric $W_2$. Such metrics appear naturally in discretisations of $W_2$-gradient flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

We propose a discrete transport equation on graphs which connects distributions on both vertices and edges. We then derive a discrete analogue of the Benamou-Brenier formulation for Wasserstein-$1$ distance on a graph and as a result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kieran Morris , Oliver Johnson

We present a primal-dual dynamical formulation of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for (semi-)convex cost functions. Even in the two-marginal setting, this formulation applies to cost functions not covered by the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Brendan Pass , Yair Shenfeld

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 paper we investigate the numerical approximation of an analogue of the Wasserstein distance for optimal transport on graphs that is defined via a discrete modification of the Benamou--Brenier formula. This approach involves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Matthias Erbar , Martin Rumpf , Bernhard Schmitzer , Stefan Simon

We prove that the Benamou-Brenier formulation of the Optimal Transport problem and the Kantorovich formulation are equivalent on a sub-Riemannian connected and complete manifold $M$ without boundary and with no non-trivial abnormal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Giovanna Citti , Mattia Galeotti , Andrea Pinamonti

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo

We introduce and study a new optimal transport problem on a bounded domain $\bar\Omega \subset \mathbb R^d$, defined via a dynamical Benamou-Brenier formulation. The model handles differently the motion in the interior and on the boundary,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Léonard Monsaingeon

Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

We propose a variational model with diffeomorphic optimal transportation for joint image reconstruction and motion estimation. The proposed model is a production of assembling the Wasserstein distance with the Benamou--Brenier formula in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Chong Chen

We present a discretization of the dynamic optimal transport problem for which we can obtain the convergence rate for the value of the transport cost to its continuous value when the temporal and spatial stepsize vanish. This convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Sadashige Ishida , Hugo Lavenant
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