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The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem has recently been considered in various applications where the coupling needs to be \emph{sparse}, i.e., the density of the coupling needs to be zero for a large subset of the product…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Alejandro Garriz-Molina , Alberto González-Sanz , Gilles Mordant

We consider regularised quadratic optimal transport with subquadratic polynomial or entropic regularisation. In both cases, we prove interior Lipschitz-estimates on a transport-like map and interior gradient Lipschitz-estimates on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Rishabh S. Gvalani , Lukas Koch

The optimal transport problem with quadratic regularization is useful when sparse couplings are desired. The density of the optimal coupling is described by two functions called potentials; equivalently, potentials can be defined as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Marcel Nutz

Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon

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 a combinatorial Laplace operator on a sequence of discrete graphs which approximates the m-dimensional torus when the discretization parameter tends to infinity. We establish a polyhomogeneous expansion of the resolvent trace…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Boris Vertman

In optimal transport, quadratic regularization is an alternative to entropic regularization when sparse couplings or small regularization parameters are desired. Quadratic regularization penalizes transport couplings by the squared $L^2$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz , Andrés Riveros Valdevenito

We consider a linear-quadratic optimization problem with pointwise bounds on the state for which the constraint is given by the Laplace-Beltrami equation (to have uniqueness we add an lower order term) on a two-dimensional surface . By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Michael Hinze , Heiko Kröner

We derive nearly tight and non-asymptotic convergence bounds for solutions of entropic semi-discrete optimal transport. These bounds quantify the stability of the dual solutions of the regularized problem (sometimes called Sinkhorn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Alex Delalande

We consider optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs on hypersurfaces in 2- or 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The leading part of the PDE is given by the Laplace-Beltrami operator, which is discretized by finite elements on a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Michael Hinze , Morten Vierling

Quadratically regularized optimal transport (QOT) is a sparse alternative to entropic optimal transport. We develop a quantitative stability theory for QOT under perturbations of the marginals, the transport cost function, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz

We study the quadratically regularized optimal transport (QOT) problem for quadratic cost and compactly supported marginals $\mu$ and $\nu$. It has been empirically observed that the optimal coupling $\pi_\epsilon$ for the QOT problem has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Johannes Wiesel , Xingyu Xu

This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang , Zhou Zhou

In order to circumvent the difficulties in solving numerically the discrete optimal transport problem, in which one minimizes the linear target function $P\mapsto\langle C,P\rangle:=\sum_{i,j}C_{ij}P_{ij}$, Cuturi introduced a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Daiji Tsutsui

Quadratic regularization has emerged as a potential alternative to the popular entropic regularization in computational optimal transport, offering the theoretical advantage of producing sparse couplings through its hinge density structure.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Long Nguyen-Chi , Nam Nguyen , Binh Nguyen

This article details a general numerical framework to approximate so-lutions to linear programs related to optimal transport. The general idea is to introduce an entropic regularization of the initial linear program. This regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Marco Cuturi , Luca Nenna , Gabriel Peyré

In the field of optimal transport, two prominent subfields face each other: (i) unregularized optimal transport, "\`a-la-Kantorovich", which leads to extremely sparse plans but with algorithms that scale poorly, and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ehsan Amid , Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock , Manfred K. Warmuth

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…

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
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