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We consider the all pairs all shortest paths (APASP) problem, which maintains all of the multiple shortest paths for every vertex pair in a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with a positive real weight on each edge. We present two fully dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

We present a novel neural-networks-based algorithm to compute optimal transport maps and plans for strong and weak transport costs. To justify the usage of neural networks, we prove that they are universal approximators of transport plans…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexander Korotin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev

In this paper we revisit a class of optimal transport problems associated to non-autonomous linear control systems. Building on properties of the cost functions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}\times\mathbb{R}^{d}$ derived from suitable variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Amit Einav , Yue Jiang , Alpár R. Mészáros

Vascular networks are used across the kingdoms of life to transport fluids, nutrients and cellular material. A popular unifying idea for understanding the diversity and constraints of these networks is that the conduits making up the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Shyr-Shea Chang , Marcus Roper

This paper considers the problem of optimally balancing motion energy and communication transmission energy of a mobile robot tasked with transmitting a given number of data bits to a remote station, while navigating to a prespecified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Usman Ali , Hong Cai , Yasamin Mostofi , Yorai Wardi

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

We introduce the problem of transporting vector-valued distributions. In this, a salient feature is that mass may flow between vectorial entries as well as across space (discrete or continuous). The theory relies on a first step taken to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

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

This paper studies distributional model risk in marginal problems, where each marginal measure is assumed to lie in a Wasserstein ball centered at a fixed reference measure with a given radius. Theoretically, we establish several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Yanqin Fan , Hyeonseok Park , Gaoqian Xu

Large optimal transport problems can be approached via domain decomposition, i.e. by iteratively solving small partial problems independently and in parallel. Convergence to the global minimizers under suitable assumptions has been shown in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Mauro Bonafini , Ismael Medina , Bernhard Schmitzer

The basic optimal transportation problem consists in finding the most effective way of moving masses from one location to another, while minimizing the transportation cost. Such concept has been found to be useful to understand various…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Alonso Silva , Hamidou Tembine , Eitan Altman , Merouane Debbah

We determine the optimal structure of couplings for the \emph{Martingale transport problem} between radially symmetric initial and terminal laws $\mu, \nu$ on $\R^d$ and show the uniqueness of optimizer. Here optimality means that such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Tongseok Lim

We propose a new anisotropic optimal transport model based on the theory of currents, where the anisotropic cost function splits as the product of a factor depending only on the spatial direction and a factor depending only on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Martina Bellettini , Andrea Marchese

Consider designing a transportation network on $n$ vertices in the plane, with traffic demand uniform over all source-destination pairs. Suppose the cost of a link of length $\ell$ and capacity $c$ scales as $\ell c^\beta$ for fixed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-03-17 David J. Aldous

We consider the problem of dynamic optimal transport with a density constraint. We derive variational limits in terms of $\Gamma$-convergence for two singular phenomena. First, for densities constrained near a hyperplane we recover the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We study a network design problem (NDP) where the planner aims at selecting the optimal single-link intervention on a transportation network to minimize the travel time under Wardrop equilibrium flows. Our first result is that, if the delay…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Leonardo Cianfanelli , Giacomo Como , Asuman Ozdaglar , Francesca Parise

We study network properties of networks evolving in time based on optimal transport principles. These evolve from a structure covering uniformly a continuous space towards an optimal design in terms of optimal transport theory. At…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

Weak optimal transport generalizes the classical theory of optimal transportation to nonlinear cost functions and covers a range of problems that lie beyond the traditional theory - including entropic transport, martingale transport, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Filip Pramenković

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