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We identify a condition for regularity of optimal transport maps that requires only three derivatives of the cost function, for measures given by densities that are only bounded above and below. This new condition is equivalent to the weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Nestor Guillen , Jun Kitagawa

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

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

We derive third order transport coefficients of skewness for a phase-space kinetic model that considers the processes of scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and recombination losses. The resulting expression for the skewness tensor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-26 Peter W. Stokes , Ilija Simonović , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Saša Dujko , Ronald D. White

Optimal transport has found widespread applications in signal processing and machine learning. Among its many equivalent formulations, optimal transport seeks to reconstruct a random variable/vector with a prescribed distribution at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jun Chen , Jia Wang , Ruibin Li , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Huan Liu , Yuanhao Yu

While many questions in robust finance can be posed in the martingale optimal transport framework or its weak extension, others like the subreplication price of VIX futures, the robust pricing of American options or the construction of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Benjamin Jourdain , Gudmund Pammer

This paper introduces two variational formulations for a model of robust optimal transport, that is, the problem of designing optimal transport networks that are resilient to potential damages, balancing construction costs against the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Luigi De Masi , Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi

Optimal transportation theory is an area of mathematics with real-world applications in fields ranging from economics to optimal control to machine learning. We propose a new algorithm for solving discrete transport (network flow) problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-03 J. D. Walsh , Luca Dieci

Global infrastructure robustness and local transport efficiency are critical requirements for transportation networks. However, since passengers often travel greedily to maximize their own benefit and trigger traffic jams, overall…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-01-09 Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

A number of researchers have introduced topological structures on the set of laws of stochastic processes. A unifying goal of these authors is to strengthen the usual weak topology in order to adequately capture the temporal structure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Daniel Bartl , Mathias Beiglböck , Manu Eder

We establish novel quantitative stability results for optimal transport problems with respect to perturbations in the target measure. We provide explicit bounds on the stability of optimal transport potentials and maps, which are relevant…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Octave Mischler , Dario Trevisan

Optimal Transport, a theory for optimal allocation of resources, is widely used in various fields such as astrophysics, machine learning, and imaging science. However, many applications impose elementwise constraints on the transport plan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zixuan Cang , Qing Nie , Yanxiang Zhao

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

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

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

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

Transport is an important function in many network systems and understanding its behavior on biological, social, and technological networks is crucial for a wide range of applications. However, it is a property that is not well-understood…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Lazaros K. Gallos , Chaoming Song , Shlomo Havlin , Hernan A. Makse

We investigate a mathematical theory for the erosion of sediment which begins with the study of a non-linear, parabolic, weighted 4-Laplace equation on a rectangular domain corresponding to a base segment of an extended landscape. Imposing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Björn Birnir , Julie Rowlett

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

We study the optimal transport between two probability measures on the real line, where the transport plans are laws of one-step martingales. A quasi-sure formulation of the dual problem is introduced and shown to yield a complete duality…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Marcel Nutz , Nizar Touzi