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We study a class of dynamically consistent risk measures that robustify a time-homogeneous Markovian reference model by allowing for distributional uncertainty in its transition laws. We start from one-step convex risk evaluations in which…

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We study causal optimal transport in continuous time, with Markovian cost, between a finite-state Markov source and a diffusion target. By replacing the source with its conditional law given the observation of the target, we characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Julio Backhoff , Erhan Bayraktar , Ibrahim Ekren , Antonios Zitridis

We consider a stochastic transportation problem between two prescribed probability distributions (a source and a target) over processes with general drift dependence and with free end times. First, and in order to establish a dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Samer Dweik , Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

We consider an extension of the Monge-Kantorovitch optimal transportation problem. The mass is transported along a continuous semimartingale, and the cost of transportation depends on the drift and the diffusion coefficients of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

Semidiscrete optimal transport is a challenging generalization of the classical transportation problem in linear programming. The goal is to design a joint distribution for two random variables (one continuous, one discrete) with fixed…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-22 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

This work investigates several aspects related to quantitative stability in optimal transport, as well as uniqueness of the dual transport problem. Our main contributions are as follows. Chapter 1: Observations regarding the quantitative…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 William Ford

We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Sébastien Gadat , Emilia Siviero

Modelling passenger assignments in public transport networks is a fundamental task for city planners, especially when deliberating network infrastructure decisions. A key aspect of a realistic model is to integrate passengers' selfish…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Tobias Harks , Sven Jäger , Michael Markl , Philine Schiewe

We develop a Markovian traffic equilibrium model for ride-hailing in which vehicles, whether empty or hired, make sequential order-acceptance and link-choice decisions over a traffic network to maximize total discounted return in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Song Gao , Hanyu Cheng , Chiwei Yan , Guocheng Jiang

In this paper, we consider a dynamic equilibrium transportation problem. There is a fixed number of cars moving from origin to destination areas. Preferences for arrival times are expressed as a cost of arriving before or after the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Victoria Guseva , Ilya Sklonin , Irina Podlipnova , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

Recent advancements in vehicle autonomy have drawn interest in understanding the impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic systems. In this paper, we study a traffic assignment problem in a mixed-autonomy setting where both human-driven and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Lihui Yi , Ermin Wei

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 paper investigates a time-inconsistent portfolio selection problem in the incomplete mar ket model, integrating expected utility maximization with risk control. The objective functional balances the expected utility and variance on log…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-02 Yue Cao , Zongxia Liang , Sheng Wang , Xiang Yu

This paper considers a class of stochastic control problems with implicitly defined objective functions, which are the sources of time-inconsistency. We study the closed-loop equilibrium solutions in a general controlled diffusion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Zongxia Liang , Jianming Xia , Keyu Zhang

Standard Markovian optimal stopping problems are consistent in the sense that the first entrance time into the stopping set is optimal for each initial state of the process. Clearly, the usual concept of optimality cannot in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Sören Christensen , Kristoffer Lindensjö

This article studies unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) and its dynamical extension, unbalanced density control (UDC), for a class of constrained discrete-time linear systems. UOT compares measures with unequal total mass by balancing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

We study a class of games with a continuum of players for which Cournot-Nash equilibria can be obtained by the minimisation of some cost, related to optimal transport. This cost is not convex in the usual sense in general but it turns out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Adrien Blanchet , Guillaume Carlier

In this paper we revisit a class of optimal transport problems associated to non-autonomous linear control systems. Building on properties of the cost functions on $\mathbb{R}^{d}\times\mathbb{R}^{d}$ derived from suitable variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Amit Einav , Yue Jiang , Alpár R. Mészáros

In this paper we study the bicausal optimal transport problem for Markov chains, an optimal transport formulation suitable for stochastic processes which takes into consideration the accumulation of information as time evolves. Our analysis…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Vrettos Moulos

This paper characterizes differentiable and subgame Markov perfect equilibria in a continuous time intertemporal decision problem with non-constant discounting. Capturing the idea of non commitment by letting the commitment period being…

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