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Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

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

We consider a class of discretionary stopping problems within the $G$-framework. We first establish the well-definedness of the stopping problem under the $G$-expectation, by showing the quasi-continuity of the stopped process. We then…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Xin Guo , Chen Pan , Shige Peng

We prove a central limit theorem for the entropic transportation cost between subgaussian probability measures, centered at the population cost. This is the first result which allows for asymptotically valid inference for entropic optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto Gonzalez-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Jonathan Niles-Weed

In this paper, we introduce a class of indicators that enable to compute efficiently optimal transport plans associated to arbitrary distributions of N demands and M supplies in R in the case where the cost function is concave. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Julie Delon , Julien Salomon , Andrei Sobolevskii

A key inequality which underpins the regularity theory of optimal transport for costs satisfying the Ma--Trudinger--Wang condition is the Pogorelov second derivative bound. This translates to an apriori interior $C^1$ estimate for smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Simon Brendle , Flavien Léger , Robert J. McCann , Cale Rankin

We generalize various notions of stability of invariant sets of dynamical systems to invariant measures, by defining a topology on the set of measures. The defined topology is similar, but not topologically equivalent to weak* topology, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-11-04 Sinisa Slijepcevic

The cost functions considered are $c(x,y)=h(x-y)$, where $h\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, homogeneous of degree $p\geq 2$, with a positive definite Hessian in the unit sphere. We study multivalued monotone maps with respect to that cost and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Cristian E. Gutierrez , Annamaria Montanari

This paper discusses a general and useful stability principle which, roughly speaking, says that given a uniformly continuous function defined on an arbitrary metric space, if the function is bounded on the constraint set and we slightly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro

Optimal transport is widely used in pure and applied mathematics to find probabilistic solutions to hard combinatorial matching problems. We extend the Wasserstein metric and other elements of optimal transport from the matching of sets to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Evan Patterson

Finding optimal trajectories for multiple traffic demands in a congested network is a challenging task. Optimal transport theory is a principled approach that has been used successfully to study various transportation problems. Its usage is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Michael Muehlebach , Caterina De Bacco

In this note, we introduce a class of indicators that enable to compute efficiently optimal transport plans associated to arbitrary distributions of $N$ demands and $N$ supplies in $\mathbf{R}$ in the case where the cost function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Julie Delon , Julien Salomon , A. Sobolevskii

In recent works - both experimental and theoretical - it has been shown how to use computational geometry to efficently construct approximations to the optimal transport map between two given probability measures on Euclidean space, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Robert J. Berman

The contribution of this work is twofold. The first part deals with a Hilbert-space version of McCann's celebrated result on the existence and uniqueness of monotone measure-preserving maps: given two probability measures $\rm P$ and $\rm…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Alberto González-Sanz , Marc Hallin , Bodhisattva Sen

We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Axel G. R. Turnquist

A local convergence rate is established for a Gauss orthogonal collocation method applied to optimal control problems with control constraints. If the Hamiltonian possesses a strong convexity property, then the theory yields convergence for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 William W. Hager , Jun Liu , Subhashree Mohapatra , Anil V. Rao , Xiang-Sheng Wang

Spatial coupling has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm to construct graphical models that work well under low-complexity message-passing algorithms. Although much progress has been made on the analysis of spatially coupled models…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Rafah El-Khatib , Nicolas Macris , Ruediger Urbanke

Fix a pair of smooth source and target densities $\rho$ and $\rho^*$ of equal mass, supported on bounded domains $\Omega, \Omega^* \subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Also fix a cost function $c_0 \in C^{4,\alpha}(\overline{\Omega} \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Farhan Abedin , Jun Kitagawa

This paper links matching markets with aligned preferences to optimal transport theory. We show that stability, efficiency, and fairness emerge as solutions to a parametric family of optimal transport problems. The parameter reflects…

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