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We present a functional calculus treatment of Entropic Optimal Transport (EOT) between Gaussian measures on separable Hilbert spaces, providing a unified framework that handles infinite-dimensional degeneracy. By leveraging the notion of…

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In this work, we address the problem of Hessian inversion bias in distributed second-order optimization algorithms. We introduce a novel shrinkage-based estimator for the resolvent of gram matrices which is asymptotically unbiased, and…

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We present a continuous nonlinear optimization model for the Spin Glass Problem (SGP), building on a classical result by Rosenberg (1972), which shows that for a class of multilinear polynomial problems the optimal values of the continuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Phil Duxbury , Carlile Lavor , Luiz Leduino de Salles-Neto

We establish the existence of a solution to a nonlinear competitive Schr\"odinger system whose scalar potential tends to a positive constant at infinity with an appropriate rate. This solution has the property that all components are…

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We present a family of algorithms for the numerical approximation of the Schr\"odinger equation with potential concentrated at a finite set of points. Our methods belong to the so-called fast and oblivious convolution quadrature algorithms.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Lehel Banjai , María López-Fernández

A basic idea in optimal transport is that optimizers can be characterized through a geometric property of their support sets called cyclical monotonicity. In recent years, similar "monotonicity principles" have found applications in other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Mathias Beiglböck , Giovanni Conforti

We develop a novel stability theory for Sinkhorn semigroups based on Lyapunov techniques and quantitative contraction coefficients, and establish exponential convergence of Sinkhorn iterations on weighted Banach spaces. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-28 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Pierre del Moral , Joaquin Miguez

We show that the derivatives of the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm, or iterative proportional fitting procedure, converge towards the derivatives of the entropic regularization of the optimal transport problem with a locally uniform linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

Stochastic optimization naturally appear in many application areas, including machine learning. Our goal is to go further in the analysis of the Stochastic Average Gradient Accelerated (SAGA) algorithm. To achieve this, we introduce a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Luis Fredes , Bernard Bercu , Eméric Gbaguidi

We establish the stability of solutions to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem with respect to the marginals and the cost function. The result is based on the geometric notion of cyclical invariance and inspired by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz , Espen Bernton

Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

In this paper we analyze the Schwarz alternating method for unconstrained elliptic optimal control problems. We discuss the convergence properties of the method in the continuous case first and then apply the arguments to the finite…

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Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

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We give in this paper a convergence result concerning parallel asynchronous algorithm with bounded delays to solve a nonlinear fixed point problems. This result is applied to calculate the solution of a strongly monotone operator. Special…

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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

Large optimal transport problems can be approached via domain decomposition, i.e. by iteratively solving small partial problems independently and in parallel. Convergence to the global minimizers under suitable assumptions has been shown in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Mauro Bonafini , Ismael Medina , Bernhard Schmitzer

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Tianlin Liu , Joan Puigcerver , Mathieu Blondel

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,…

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In this article a unified approach to iterative soft-thresholding algorithms for the solution of linear operator equations in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces is presented. We formulate the algorithm in the framework of generalized…

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The $k$-means method is an iterative clustering algorithm which associates each observation with one of $k$ clusters. It traditionally employs cluster centers in the same space as the observed data. By relaxing this requirement, it is…

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