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This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

We prove a conjecture regarding the asymptotic behavior at infinity of the Kantorovich potential for the Multimarginal Optimal Transport with Coulomb and Riesz costs.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Rodrigue Lelotte

We investigate the approximation of Monge--Kantorovich problems on general compact metric spaces, showing that optimal values, plans and maps can be effectively approximated via a fully discrete method. First we approximate optimal values…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Maximiliano Frungillo

We consider the problem to transport resources/mass while abiding by constraints on the flow through constrictions along their path between specified terminal distributions. Constrictions, conceptualized as toll stations at specified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Anqi Dong , Arthur Stephanovitch , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem of transporting densities $\rho_0$ to $\rho_1$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with a strictly convex cost function. A popular relaxation of the problem is the one-parameter family called the entropic cost problem.…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Soumik Pal

We study optimal transport between probability measures supported on the same finite metric space, where the ground cost is a distance induced by a weighted connected graph. Building on recent work showing that the resulting Kantorovich…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Jérémie Bigot , Luis Fredes

Tools from optimal transport (OT) theory have recently been used to define a notion of quantile function for directional data. In practice, regularization is mandatory for applications that require out-of-sample estimates. To this end, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-06 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Gauthier Thurin

In recent years, the use of entropy-regularized optimal transport with $L^p$-type entropies has become increasingly popular. In this setting, the solutions are sparse, in the sense that the support of the regularized optimal coupling,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Alberto González-Sanz , Rishabh S. Gvalani , Lukas Koch

We study the convergence of 1D Schr\"odinger ope\-rators $H_\varepsilon$ with the potentials which are regularizations of a class of pseudo-potentials having in particular the form $$ \alpha \delta'(x)+\beta…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Yuriy Golovaty

We develop a theory of optimal transport relative to a distinguished subset, which acts as a reservoir of mass, allowing us to compare measures of different total variation. This relative transportation problem has an optimal solution and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Peter Bubenik , Alex Elchesen

We describe some analogy between optimal transport and the Schr\"odinger problem where the transport cost is replaced by an entropic cost with a reference path measure. A dual Kantorovich type formulation and a Benamou-Brenier type…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Ivan Gentil , Christian Léonard , Luigia Ripani

Many results in probability (most famously, Strassen's theorem on stochastic domination), characterize some relationship between probability distributions in terms of the existence of a particular structured coupling between them. Optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Adam Quinn Jaffe , Daniel Raban

Entropic optimal transport offers a computationally tractable approximation to the classical problem. In this note, we study the approximation rate of the entropic optimal transport map (in approaching the Brenier map) when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Ritwik Sadhu , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

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

The fundamental theorem of classical optimal transport establishes strong duality and characterizes optimizers through a complementary slackness condition. Milestones such as Brenier's theorem and the Kantorovich-Rubinstein formula are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Mathias Beiglböck , Gudmund Pammer , Lorenz Riess , Stefan Schrott

We consider probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^{\infty}$ and study optimal transportation mappings for the case of infinite Kantorovich distance. Our examples include 1) quasi-product measures, 2) measures with certain symmetric…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Danila A. Zaev

In this paper we study theoretical properties of the entropy-transport functional with repulsive cost functions. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a minimizer in a class of metric spaces and prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Augusto Gerolin , Anna Kausamo , Tapio Rajala

Our goal in this paper is twofold. First, we characterize the class of pairwise interactions for which the Seidl conjecture on the structure of optimal plans for the symmetric multimarginal optimal transport problem with one-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Thiago Carvalho Corso

We consider the problem of steering an initial probability density for the state vector of a linear system to a final one, in finite time, using minimum energy control. In the case where the dynamics correspond to an integrator ($\dot x(t)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

The distance and divergence of the probability measures play a central role in statistics, machine learning, and many other related fields. The Wasserstein distance has received much attention in recent years because of its distinctions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Qijun Tong , Kei Kobayashi