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In this note, we extend the regularity theory for monotone measure-preserving maps, also known as optimal transports for the quadratic cost optimal transport problem, to the case when the support of the target measure is an arbitrary convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alessio Figalli , Yash Jhaveri

This paper investigates the semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problem with entropic regularization. We characterize the solution using a governing, well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). This naturally yields an algorithm to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

The optimal control of a mechanical system is of crucial importance in many realms. Typical examples are the determination of a time-minimal path in vehicle dynamics, a minimal energy trajectory in space mission design, or optimal motion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-09 S. Ober-Bloebaum , O. Junge , J. E. Marsden

We study the semi-discrete formulation of one-dimensional partial optimal transport with quadratic cost, where a probability density is partially transported to a finite sum of Dirac masses of smaller total mass. This problem arises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Adrien Cances , Hugo Leclerc

In this paper, we study optimal transportation problems for multifractal random measures. Since these measures are much less regular than optimal transportation theory requires, we introduce a new notion of transportation which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-02 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang , Zhou Zhou

Finding optimal trajectories for multiple traffic demands in a congested network is a challenging task. Optimal transport theory is a principled approach that has been used successfully to study various transportation problems. Its usage is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Michael Muehlebach , Caterina De Bacco

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 has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Optimal transport provides a metric which quantifies the dissimilarity between probability measures. For measures supported in discrete metric spaces, finding the optimal transport distance has cubic time complexity in the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Samantha Chen , Puoya Tabaghi , Yusu Wang

Over the past five years, multi-marginal optimal transport, a generalization of the well known optimal transport problem of Monge and Kantorovich, has begun to attract considerable attention, due in part to a wide variety of emerging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Brendan Pass

In this paper we consider a scalar transport equation with constant coefficients on domains with discrete space and continuous, discrete or general time. We show that on all these underlying domains solutions of the transport equation can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Petr Stehlík , Jonáš Volek

The presentation covers prerequisite results from Topology and Measure Theory. This is then followed by an introduction into couplings and basic definitions for optimal transport. The Kantrorovich problem is then introduced and an existence…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Austin Vandegriffe

We propose an overview of optimal transport theory and its applications to econometric methodology. This review is specifically designed for practitioners, be they econometric theorists or applied econometricians. The review of applications…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-04-07 Alfred Galichon , Marc Henry

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

We provide a compactness criterion for the set of laws $\mathfrak{P}^{ac}_{sem}(\Theta)$ on the Skorokhod space for which the canonical process $X$ is a semimartingale having absolutely continuous characteristics with differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Chong Liu , Ariel Neufeld

This survey has been written in occasion of the School and Workshop about Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erd\"os Center in September 2022. We discuss some recent results on noncommutative entropic optimal transport problems and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lorenzo Portinale

Optimal transport and its related problems, including optimal partial transport, have proven to be valuable tools in machine learning for computing meaningful distances between probability or positive measures. This success has led to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinran Liu , Yikun Bai , Huy Tran , Zhanqi Zhu , Matthew Thorpe , Soheil Kolouri

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

We study an optimal transport problem where, at some intermediate time, the mass is accelerated by either an external force field, or self-interacting. We obtain regularity of the velocity potential, intermediate density, and optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Jiakun Liu , Grégoire Loeper