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We study solutions to the multi-marginal Monge-Kantorovich problem which are concentrated on several graphs over the first marginal. We first present two general conditions on the cost function which ensure, respectively, that any solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Abbas Moameni , Brendan Pass

We address optimal control problems on the space of measures for an objective containing a smooth functional and an optimal transport regularization. That is, the quadratic Monge-Kantorovich distance between a given prior measure and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Nicolas Borchard , Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider dynamical transport metrics for probability measures on discretisations of a bounded convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$. These metrics are natural discrete counterparts to the Kantorovich metric $\mathbb{W}_2$, defined using a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas

We prove existence and uniqueness results for solutions to a class of optimal transportation problems with infinitely many marginals, supported on the real line. We also provide a characterization of the solution with an explicit formula.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Brendan Pass

In this note, we derive upper-bounds on the statistical estimation rates of unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) maps for the quadratic cost. Our work relies on the stability of the semi-dual formulation of optimal transport (OT) extended to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Adrien Vacher , François-Xavier Vialard

We establish several quantitative stability estimates for optimal transport maps between non-degenerate densities on uniformly convex domains for the quadratic cost. Under H\"older regularity assumptions, we prove Lipschitz $L^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 F. -U. Caja-Lopez , Matias G. Delgadino , Jun Kitagawa

The optimal transport (OT) map is a geometry-driven transformation between high-dimensional probability distributions which underpins a wide range of tasks in statistics, applied probability, and machine learning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Sloan Nietert , Ziv Goldfeld

In this article, we propose a Krasnosel'ski\v{\i}-Mann-type algorithm for finding a common fixed point of a countably infinite family of nonexpansive operators $(T_n)_{n \geq 0}$ in Hilbert spaces. We formulate an asymptotic property which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Radu Ioan Bot , Dennis Meier

We study the optimal transport problem in the Euclidean space where the cost function is given by the value function associated with a Linear Quadratic minimization problem. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier's Theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Ahed Hindawi , Ludovic Rifford , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

We introduce a new variant of the weak optimal transport problem where mass is distributed from one space to the other through unnormalized kernels. We give sufficient conditions for primal attainment and prove a dual formula for this…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Philippe Choné , Nathael Gozlan , Francis Kramarz

We introduce an optimal transport-based model for learning a metric tensor from cross-sectional samples of evolving probability measures on a common Riemannian manifold. We neurally parametrize the metric as a spatially-varying matrix field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Christopher Scarvelis , Justin Solomon

We give a characterization of optimal transport plans for a variant of the usual quadratic transport cost introduced in [33]. Optimal plans are composition of a deterministic transport given by the gradient of a continuously differentiable…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Nathael Gozlan , Nicolas Juillet

Optimal transport is a geometrically intuitive, robust and flexible metric for sample comparison in data analysis and machine learning. Its formal Riemannian structure allows for a local linearization via a tangent space approximation. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Clément Sarrazin , Bernhard Schmitzer

We present a set-oriented graph-based computational framework for continuous-time optimal transport over nonlinear dynamical systems. We recover provably optimal control laws for steering a given initial distribution in phase space to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover

We consider the problem of optimal transportation with general cost between a empirical measure and a general target probability on R d , with d $\ge$ 1. We extend results in [19] and prove asymptotic stability of both optimal transport…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

This paper considers the optimization-based traffic allocation problem among multiple end points in connectionless networks. The network utility function is modeled as a non-concave function, since it is the best description of the quality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Jingyao Wang , Mahmoud Ashour , Constantino Lagoa , Necdet Aybat , Hao Che , Zhisheng Duan

Transportation matrices are $m\times n$ non-negative matrices whose row sums and row columns are equal to, or dominated above with given integral vectors $R$ and $C$. Those matrices belong to a convex polytope whose extreme points have been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Patrice Koehl

We show continuity of the martingale optimal transport optimisation problem as a functional of its marginals. This is achieved via an estimate on the projection in the nested/causal Wasserstein distance of an arbitrary coupling on to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Johannes Wiesel

The objective of this research is to explore a convex feasibility problem, which consists of a monotone variational inequality problem and a fixed point problem. We introduce four inertial extragradient algorithms that are motivated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Bing Tan , Jingjing Fan , Xiaolong Qin

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert