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We provide new answers about the placement of mass on spheres so as to minimize energies of pairwise interactions. We find optimal measures for the $p$-frame energies, i.e. energies with the kernel given by the absolute value of the inner…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Dmitriy Bilyk , Alexey Glazyrin , Ryan Matzke , Josiah Park , Oleksandr Vlasiuk

The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem is empirically known to have sparse solutions: its optimal coupling $\pi_{\varepsilon}$ has sparse support for small regularization parameter $\varepsilon$, in contrast to entropic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz

In the classical Monge-Kantorovich problem, the transportation cost only depends on the amount of mass sent from sources to destinations and not on the paths followed by this mass. Thus, it does not allow for congestion effects. Using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Carlier , C. Jimenez , F. Santambrogio

We identify a novel connection between a recently introduced pseudo-Riemannian framework for optimal mass transport and the geometry of Monge-Amp\`ere equations. We show this correspondence by application to an example from geophysical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Roberto D'Onofrio

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

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

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 demonstrate an iterative scheme to approximate the optimal transportation problem with a discrete target measure under certain standard conditions on the cost function. Additionally, we give a finite upper bound on the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Jun Kitagawa

Coupled 3D-1D problems arise in many practical applications, in an attempt to reduce the computational burden in simulations where cylindrical inclusions with a small section are embedded in a much larger domain. Nonetheless the resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Stefano Berrone , Denise Grappein , Stefano Scialò , Fabio Vicini

In this paper, we consider a class of transportation problems which arises in sample surveys and other areas of statistics. The associated cost matrices of these transportation problems are of special structure. We observe that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 A. K. Das , Deepmala , R. Jana

In this note we prove that, if the cost function satisfies some necessary structural conditions and the densities are bounded away from zero and infinity, then strictly $c$-convex potentials arising in optimal transportation belong to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Guido De Philippis , Alessio Figalli

In this work we develop a numerical method for solving a type of convex graph-structured tensor optimization problems. This type of problems, which can be seen as a generalization of multi-marginal optimal transport problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Axel Ringh , Isabel Haasler , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

We introduce an optimal transport topology on the space of probability measures over a fiber bundle, which penalizes the transport cost from one fiber to another. For simplicity, we illustrate our construction in the Euclidean case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Jan Peszek , David Poyato

This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Yuning Yang , Guoyin Li

One of the central objects in the theory of optimal transport is the Brenier map: the unique monotone transformation which pushes forward an absolutely continuous probability law onto any other given law. A line of recent work has analyzed…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Tudor Manole , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Larry Wasserman

The purpose of this paper is to show that in a finite dimensional metric space with Alexandrov's curvature bounded below, Monge's transport problem for the quadratic cost admits a unique solution.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jerome Bertrand

In this paper, we introduce a new nonlinear evolution partial differential equation for sparse deconvolution problems. The proposed PDE has the form of continuity equation that arises in various research areas, e.g. fluid dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-04-04 Yu Mao , Bin Dong , Stanley Osher

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

We consider cost minimizing stopping time solutions to Skorokhod embedding problems, which deal with transporting a source probability measure to a given target measure through a stopped Brownian process. PDEs and a free boundary problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

In this paper, we propose a unified algorithmic framework for solving many known variants of \mds. Our algorithm is a simple iterative scheme with guaranteed convergence, and is \emph{modular}; by changing the internals of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Arvind Agarwal , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian