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Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

We develop a numerical method for the martingale analogue of the Benamou--Brenier optimal transport problem, which seeks a martingale interpolating two prescribed marginals which is closest to the Brownian motion. Recent contributions have…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-10 Manuel Hasenbichler , Benjamin Joseph , Gregoire Loeper , Jan Obloj , Gudmund Pammer

Optimal Transport (OT) distances are now routinely used as loss functions in ML tasks. Yet, computing OT distances between arbitrary (i.e. not necessarily discrete) probability distributions remains an open problem. This paper introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Arthur Mensch , Gabriel Peyré

We formulate and solve a class of finite-time transport and mixing problems in the set-oriented framework. The aim is to obtain optimal discrete-time perturbations in nonlinear dynamical systems to transport a specified initial measure on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Piyush Grover , Karthik Elamvazhuthi

We study the notion of debiasability for cost functions arising in optimal transport. We call a symmetric cost function $c:\mathscr{X}\times\mathscr{X}\to\mathbb{R}\cup\{+\infty\}$ debiasable if it satisfies $c(x,y)\ge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Virginie Ehrlacher , Gabriele Todeschi

We study the inverse optimal transport problem of recovering the ground cost from an optimal transport plan. In discrete settings, this problem reduces to inverse linear programming and is intrinsically ill-posed, exhibiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Gabriel Peyré , Clarice Poon , Oscar Tron

The basic problem of optimal transportation consists in minimizing the expected costs $\mathbb {E}[c(X_1,X_2)]$ by varying the joint distribution $(X_1,X_2)$ where the marginal distributions of the random variables $X_1$ and $X_2$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Nicolas Juillet

A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

This paper addresses the Optimal Transport problem, which is regularized by the square of Euclidean $\ell_2$-norm. It offers theoretical guarantees regarding the iteration complexities of the Sinkhorn--Knopp algorithm, Accelerated Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Michael Persiianov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

Multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) is a powerful framework for modeling interactions between multiple distributions, yet its applicability is bottlenecked by a high computational overhead. Entropic regularization provides computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dor Tsur , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Haim Permuter

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yukuan Hu , Huajie Chen , Xin Liu

The function that maps a family of probability measures to the solution of the dual entropic optimal transport problem is known as the Schr\"odinger map. We prove that when the cost function is $\mathcal{C}^{k+1}$ with $k\in \mathbb{N}^*$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Guillaume Carlier , Lénaïc Chizat , Maxime Laborde

Multi-marginal Optimal Transport (mOT), a generalization of OT, aims at minimizing the integral of a cost function with respect to a distribution with some prescribed marginals. In this paper, we consider an entropic version of mOT with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Maxence Noble , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , Alain Durmus

We characterize the solution to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem by a well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). Our approach works for discrete marginals and general cost functions, and in addition to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew , Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

In this paper, we introduce a generalized dynamical unbalanced optimal transport framework by incorporating limited control input and mass dissipation, addressing limitations in conventional optimal transport for control applications. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

Inverse optimal transport (OT) refers to the problem of learning the cost function for OT from observed transport plan or its samples. In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex optimization formulation of the inverse OT problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaojun Ma , Haodong Sun , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

In this paper, we are motivated by two important applications: entropy-regularized optimal transport problem and road or IP traffic demand matrix estimation by entropy model. Both of them include solving a special type of optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Sergey Omelchenko , Alexander Tiurin

While the optimal transport (OT) problem was originally formulated as a linear program, the addition of entropic regularization has proven beneficial both computationally and statistically, for many applications. The Sinkhorn fixed-point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-06 James Thornton , Marco Cuturi

Optimal Transport (OT) theory has seen an increasing amount of attention from the computer science community due to its potency and relevance in modeling and machine learning. It introduces means that serve as powerful ways to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Luis Caicedo Torres , Luiz Manella Pereira , M. Hadi Amini