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Semidiscrete optimal transport is a challenging generalization of the classical transportation problem in linear programming. The goal is to design a joint distribution for two random variables (one continuous, one discrete) with fixed…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-22 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

In this work, we propose a novel implementation of Newton's method for solving semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problems for cost functions which are a positive combination of $p$-norms, $1<p<\infty$. It is well understood that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

We give a new and constructive proof of the existence of global-in-time weak solutions of the 3-dimensional incompressible semi-geostrophic equations (SG) in geostrophic coordinates, for arbitrary initial measures with compact support. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 David P. Bourne , Charlie P. Egan , Beatrice Pelloni , Mark Wilkinson

We introduce and prove convergence of a damped Newton algorithm to approximate solutions of the semi-discrete optimal transport problem with storage fees, corresponding to a problem with hard capacity constraints. This is a variant of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Mohit Bansil , Jun Kitagawa

We present a 2-step optimal transport approach that performs a mapping from a source distribution to a target distribution. Here, the target has the particularity to present new classes not present in the source domain. The first step of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Marwa Kechaou , Romain Hérault , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Gilles Gasso

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

Bilevel optimization with traffic equilibrium constraints plays an important role in transportation planning and management problems such as traffic control, transport network design, and congestion pricing. In this paper, we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Akshit Goyal , Andrew Lamperski

Interpolating between measures supported by polygonal or polyhedral domains is a problem that has been recently addressed by the semi-discrete optimal transport framework. Within this framework, one of the domains is discretized with a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Agathe Herrou , Bruno Lévy , Vincent Nivoliers , Nicolas Bonneel , Julie Digne

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

Optimal transport maps and plans between two absolutely continuous measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ can be approximated by solving semi-discrete or fully-discrete optimal transport problems. These two problems ensue from approximating $\mu$ or both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto

In this paper, we describe a two-stage method for solving optimization problems with bound constraints. It combines the active-set estimate described in [Facchinei and Lucidi, 1995] with a modification of the non-monotone line search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Andrea Cristofari , Marianna De Santis , Stefano Lucidi , Francesco Rinaldi

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

We describe a mesh-free three-dimensional numerical scheme for solving the incompressible semi-geostrophic equations based on semi-discrete optimal transport techniques. These results generalise previous two-dimensional implementations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Théo Lavier

We introduce a concept of optimal transport for vector-valued measures and its dual formulation. In this note we concentrate on the semi-discrete case and show some fundamental differences between the scalar and vector cases. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Shlomi Gover , Gershon Wolansky

This paper shows that the semi-dual formulation of the optimal transport problem has a degenerate saddle-point structure, and that its numerical solution is equivalent to solving a constrained optimization problem. We derive necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Anton Selitskiy , David Millard

Given a $d$-dimensional continuous (resp. discrete) probability distribution $\mu$ and a discrete distribution $\nu$, the semi-discrete (resp. discrete) Optimal Transport (OT) problem asks for computing a minimum-cost plan to transport mass…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Sharath Raghvendra , Pouyan Shirzadian , Keegan Yao

In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-13 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

This paper aims at determining under which conditions the semi-discrete optimal transport is twice differentiable with respect to the parameters of the discrete measure and exhibits numerical applications. The discussion focuses on minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat

Filterless optical transport networks relies on passive optical interconnections between nodes, i.e., on splitters/couplers and amplifiers. While different studies have investigated their design, none of them offer a solution for an optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Brigitte Jaumard , Yan Wang
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