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We propose a discrete time formulation of the semi-martingale optimal transport problem based on multi-marginal entropic transport. This approach offers a new way to formulate and solve numerically the calibration problem proposed by [17],…

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We study the multi-marginal partial optimal transport (POT) problem between $m$ discrete (unbalanced) measures with at most $n$ supports. We first prove that we can obtain two equivalence forms of the multimarginal POT problem in terms of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-25 Khang Le , Huy Nguyen , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho

The Sinkhorn algorithm has emerged as a powerful tool for solving optimal transport problems, finding applications in various domains such as machine learning, image processing, and computational biology. Despite its widespread use, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Jose Rafael Espinosa Mena

This paper studies the Partial Optimal Transport (POT) problem between two unbalanced measures with at most $n$ supports and its applications in various AI tasks such as color transfer or domain adaptation. There is hence the need for fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Anh Duc Nguyen , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Quang Minh Nguyen , Hoang H. Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen , Kim-Chuan Toh

We introduce in this paper a novel strategy for efficiently approximating the Sinkhorn distance between two discrete measures. After identifying neglectable components of the dual solution of the regularized Sinkhorn problem, we propose to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-22 Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Maxime Bérar , Gilles Gasso , Alain Rakotomamonjy

In this paper, we propose the optimal production transport model, which is an extension of the classical optimal transport model. We observe in economics, the production of the factories can always be adjusted within a certain range, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jie Fan , Tianhao Wu , Hao Wu

The Sinkhorn algorithm is a widely used method for solving the optimal transport problem, and the Greenkhorn algorithm is one of its variants. While there are modified versions of these two algorithms whose computational complexities are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Jianzhou Luo , Dingchuan Yang , Ke Wei

We investigate the problem of efficiently computing optimal transport (OT) distances, which is equivalent to the node-capacitated minimum cost maximum flow problem in a bipartite graph. We compare runtimes in computing OT distances on data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yihe Dong , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Ilya Razenshteyn , Saurabh Sawlani

We consider the fundamental problem of sampling the optimal transport coupling between given source and target distributions. In certain cases, the optimal transport plan takes the form of a one-to-one mapping from the source support to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Tyler Maunu , Paul Hand

We consider the optimal control problem of steering an agent population to a desired distribution over an infinite horizon. This is an optimal transport problem over dynamical systems, which is challenging due to its high computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

This paper presents consideration of the Semi-Relaxed Sinkhorn (SR-Sinkhorn) algorithm for the semi-relaxed optimal transport (SROT) problem, which relaxes one marginal constraint of the standard OT problem. For evaluation of how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Takumi Fukunaga , Hiroyuki Kasai

Starting from Brenier's relaxed formulation of the incompressible Euler equation in terms of geodesics in the group of measure-preserving diffeomorphisms, we propose a numerical method based on Sinkhorn's algorithm for the entropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Luca Nenna

In [Q. Liao et al., Commun. Math. Sci., 20(2022)], a linear-time Sinkhorn algorithm is developed based on dynamic programming, which significantly reduces the computational complexity involved in solving optimal transport problems. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Ziyuan Lyu , Zihao Wang , Hao Wu , Shuai Yang

This work introduces novel computational methods for entropic optimal transport (OT) problems under martingale-type conditions. The considered problems include the discrete martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem. Moreover, as the…

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In this paper, we develop a fast mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) framework for multi-robot navigation by combining graph attention networks and distributed optimization. We formulate a mixed-integer optimization problem for receding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Viet-Anh Le , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

In this paper, we study the Entropic Martingale Optimal Transport (EMOT) problem on \mathbb{R}. The investigation of the EMOT problem arises in the calibration problem of the Stochastic Volatility Models, where martingale constraints…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Fan Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaozhen Wang

We develop a fast and reliable method for solving large-scale optimal transport (OT) problems at an unprecedented combination of speed and accuracy. Built on the celebrated Douglas-Rachford splitting technique, our method tackles the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Vien V. Mai , Jacob Lindbäck , Mikael Johansson

In this article we investigate an inexact iterative regularization method based on generalized Bregman distances of an optimal control problem with control constraints. We show robustness and convergence of the inexact Bregman method under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Frank Pörner

Regularized optimal transport (OT) is now increasingly used as a loss or as a matching layer in neural networks. Entropy-regularized OT can be computed using the Sinkhorn algorithm but it leads to fully-dense transportation plans, meaning…

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