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Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher

Optimal transport is widely used to learn distributions, enforce distributional constraints, and model uncertainty. In applications, transport losses are often computed from samples through tractable representations, such as one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le

We study the convergence of divergence-regularized optimal transport as the regularization parameter vanishes. Sharp rates for general divergences including relative entropy or $L^{p}$ regularization, general transport costs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz

In this paper we study general transportation problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$, in which $m$ different goods are moved simultaneously. The initial and final positions of the goods are prescribed by measures $\mu^-$, $\mu^+$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi , Salvatore Stuvard , Riccardo Tione

We revisit the question of characterizing the convergence rate of plug-in estimators of optimal transport costs. It is well known that an empirical measure comprising independent samples from an absolutely continuous distribution on…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Tudor Manole , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We analyze several problems of Optimal Transport Theory in the setting of Ergodic Theory. In a certain class of problems we consider questions in Ergodic Transport which are generalizations of the ones in Ergodic Optimization. Another class…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Artur O. Lopes , Jairo K. Mengue

Computational implementation of optimal transport barycenters for a set of target probability measures requires a form of approximation, a widespread solution being empirical approximation of measures. We provide an $O(\sqrt{N/n})$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Léo Portales , Edouard Pauwels , Elsa Cazelles

This paper deals with the 3/4-discrete 2-Wasserstein optimal transport between two measures, where one is supported by a set of segment and the other one is supported by a set of Dirac masses. We select the most suitable optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

We present a novel framework based on optimal transport for the challenging problem of comparing graphs. Specifically, we exploit the probabilistic distribution of smooth graph signals defined with respect to the graph topology. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille EL Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

In this work, we solve a discrete optimal transport problem in a nonuniform environment. To solve the optimal transport problem, we build the cost matrix and then use classical solvers for discrete optimal transport. The challenge is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

In the current book I suggest an off-road path to the subject of optimal transport. I tried to avoid prior knowledge of analysis, PDE theory and functional analysis, as much as possible. Thus I concentrate on discrete and semi-discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Gershon Wolansky

The question of which costs admit unique optimizers in the Monge-Kantorovich problem of optimal transportation between arbitrary probability densities is investigated. For smooth costs and densities on compact manifolds, the only known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Robert J. McCann , Ludovic Rifford

We study cyclically monotone transport plans between measures in $\mathrm{M}_0(\mathbb{R}^d)$, the class of Borel measures on $\mathbb{R}^d \setminus \{0\}$ that are finite on sets bounded away from the origin but may have infinite total…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alexandre Reber , Anne Sabourin , Johan Segers , Cees de Valk

We study the stability of entropically regularized optimal transport with respect to the marginals. Lipschitz continuity of the value and H\"older continuity of the optimal coupling in $p$-Wasserstein distance are obtained under general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz

It is well-known that the intersection of the matching polytope with a cardinality constraint is integral [8]. We prove a similar result for the polytope corresponding to the transportation problem with market choice (TPMC) (introduced in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Pelin Damci-Kurt , Santanu S. Dey , Simge Kucukyavuz

We prove a central limit theorem for the entropic transportation cost between subgaussian probability measures, centered at the population cost. This is the first result which allows for asymptotically valid inference for entropic optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto Gonzalez-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We discuss the relation between the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between probability distributions on a metric space, arising in the study of Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, and the spectral distance of noncommutative geometry.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Andrea , Pierre Martinetti

In the semi-discrete version of Monge's problem one tries to find a transport map $T$ with minimum cost from an absolutely continuous measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ to a discrete measure $\nu$ that is supported on a finite set in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Valentin Hartmann

We give a characterization of optimal transport plans for a variant of the usual quadratic transport cost introduced in [33]. Optimal plans are composition of a deterministic transport given by the gradient of a continuously differentiable…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Nathael Gozlan , Nicolas Juillet