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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Ovidiu Savin , Hui Yu

In recent work arXiv:2109.07820 we have shown the equivalence of the widely used nonconvex (generalized) branched transport problem with a shape optimization problem of a street or railroad network, known as (generalized) urban planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We study the equivalence between the weighted least gradient problem and the weighted Beckmann minimal flow problem or equivalently, the optimal transport problem with Riemannian cost. Thanks to this equivalence, we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Samer Dweik , Wojciech Górny

We investigate finding a map $g$ within a function class $G$ that minimises an Optimal Transport (OT) cost between a target measure $\nu$ and the image by $g$ of a source measure $\mu$. This is relevant when an OT map from $\mu$ to $\nu$…

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We study optimal transport-based distributionally robust optimization problems where a fictitious adversary, often envisioned as nature, can choose the distribution of the uncertain problem parameters by reshaping a prescribed reference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Soroosh Shafiee , Liviu Aolaritei , Florian Dörfler , Daniel Kuhn

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

This survey hinges on the interplay between regularity and approximation for linear and quasi-linear fractional elliptic problems on Lipschitz domains. For the linear Dirichlet integral Laplacian, after briefly recalling H\"older regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Wenbo Li , Ricardo H. Nochetto

The aim of this work is to investigate semi-Lagrangian approximation schemes on unstructured grids for viscous transport and conservative equations with measurable coefficients that satisfy a one-sided Lipschitz condition. To establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Fabio Camilli , Adriano Festa , Luciano Marzufero

Multi-marginal optimal transport enables one to compare multiple probability measures, which increasingly finds application in multi-task learning problems. One practical limitation of multi-marginal transport is computational scalability…

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances and more generally optimal transport (OT) theory are playing an increasingly important role in data sciences. Such problems can be used to form an examplar measure out of various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

We study a nonlinear multimarginal optimal transport problem arising in risk management, where the objective is to maximize a spectral risk measure of the pushforward of a coupling by a cost function. Although this problem is inherently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Adrien Cances , Quentin Mérigot , Luca Nenna

We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-15 J. Balzer , S. Soatto

We establish that solving an optimal transportation problem in which the source and target densities are defined on manifolds with different dimensions, is equivalent to solving a new nonlocal analog of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Robert J McCann , Brendan Pass

An analysis of the error of the upwind scheme for transport equation with discontinuous coefficients is provided. We consider here a velocity field that is bounded and one-sided Lipschitz continuous. In this framework, solutions are defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-19 François Delarue , Frédéric Lagoutière , Nicolas Vauchelet

Optimal transportation theory and the related $p$-Wasserstein distance ($W_p$, $p\geq 1$) are widely-applied in statistics and machine learning. In spite of their popularity, inference based on these tools has some issues. For instance, it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Yiming Ma , Hang Liu , Davide La Vecchia , Metthieu Lerasle

Many tasks in machine learning and signal processing can be solved by minimizing a convex function of a measure. This includes sparse spikes deconvolution or training a neural network with a single hidden layer. For these problems, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Francis Bach

We study the semi-discrete formulation of one-dimensional partial optimal transport with quadratic cost, where a probability density is partially transported to a finite sum of Dirac masses of smaller total mass. This problem arises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Adrien Cances , Hugo Leclerc

In this paper, we propose a novel shape optimization approach for the source identification of elliptic equations. This identification problem arises from two application backgrounds: actuator placement in PDE-constrained optimal controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-13 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

We study the stability of entropically regularized optimal transport with respect to the marginals. Lipschitz continuity of the value and H\"older continuity of the optimal coupling in $p$-Wasserstein distance are obtained under general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz