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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

We derive a Benamou-Brenier type dynamical formulation for the Wasserstein metric $\mathsf W_p$ between stationary random measures recently introduced in [EHJM23]. A key step is a reformulation of the metric $\mathsf W_p$ using Palm…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Martin Huesmann , Bastian Müller

Mesh deformation plays a pivotal role in many 3D vision tasks including dynamic simulations, rendering, and reconstruction. However, defining an efficient discrepancy between predicted and target meshes remains an open problem. A prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tung Le , Khai Nguyen , Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Nhat Ho , Xiaohui Xie

Computing optimal transport (OT) between measures in high dimensions is doomed by the curse of dimensionality. A popular approach to avoid this curse is to project input measures on lower-dimensional subspaces (1D lines in the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

We propose a new approach to measuring the agreement between two oscillatory time series, such as seismic waveforms, and demonstrate that it can be employed effectively in inverse problems. Our approach is based on Optimal Transport theory…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Malcolm Sambridge , Andrew Jackson , Andrew P. Valentine

We formulate a class of velocity-free finite-particle methods for mass transport problems based on a time-discrete incremental variational principle that combines entropy and the cost of particle transport, as measured by the Wasserstein…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Anna Pandolfi , Laurent Stainier , Michael Ortiz

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

This paper presents a novel mathematical framework for representing uncertainty in large deformation diffeomorphic image registration. The Bayesian posterior distribution over the deformations aligning a moving and a fixed image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Demian Wassermann , Matt Toews , Marc Niethammer , William Wells

We study the computational complexity of the optimal transport problem that evaluates the Wasserstein distance between the distributions of two K-dimensional discrete random vectors. The best known algorithms for this problem run in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bahar Taşkesen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn , Karthik Natarajan

In this paper we prove that, within the framework of $RCD^*(K,N)$ spaces with $N < \infty$, the entropic cost (i.e. the minimal value of the Schr\"odinger problem) admits: - a threefold dynamical variational representation, in the spirit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Nicola Gigli , Luca Tamanini

In the context of optimal transport methods, the subspace detour approach was recently presented by Muzellec and Cuturi (2019). It consists in building a nearly optimal transport plan in the measures space from an optimal transport plan in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Clément Bonet , Nicolas Courty , François Septier , Lucas Drumetz

We consider a class of convex optimization problems modelling temporal mass transport and mass change between two given mass distributions (the so-called dynamic formulation of unbalanced transport), where we focus on those models for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We propose two models for the interpolation between RGB images based on the dynamic optimal transport model of Benamou and Brenier [8]. While the application of dynamic optimal transport and its extensions to unbalanced transform were…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Jan Henrik Fitschen , Friederike Laus , Gabriele Steidl

Coverage control algorithms have traditionally focused on static target densities, where agents are deployed to optimally cover a fixed spatial distribution. However, many applications involve time-varying densities, including environmental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Italo Napolitano , Mario di Bernardo

We propose a variational finite volume scheme to approximate the solutions to Wasserstein gradient flows. The time discretization is based on an implicit linearization of the Wasserstein distance expressed thanks to Benamou-Brenier formula,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Clément Cancès , Thomas O. Gallouët , Gabriele Todeschi

What is the optimal way to deform a projective hypersurface into another one? In this paper we will answer this question adopting the point of view of measure theory, introducing the optimal transport problem between complex algebraic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Paolo Antonini , Fabio Cavalletti , Antonio Lerario

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 study the optimal transport problem in sub-Riemannian manifolds where the cost function is given by the square of the sub-Riemannian distance. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier-McCann's Theorem proving existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-15 Alessio Figalli , Ludovic Rifford

We address the following problem: given two smooth densities on a manifold, find an optimal diffeomorphism that transforms one density into the other. Our framework builds on connections between the Fisher-Rao information metric on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

We introduce and study a simple model capturing the main features of unbalanced optimal transport. It is based on equipping the conical extension of the group of all diffeomorphisms with a natural metric, which allows a Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Boris Khesin , Klas Modin , Luke Volk