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In this paper we study a variant of the branched transportation problem, that we call multi-material transport problem. This is a transportation problem, where distinct commodities are transported simultaneously along a network. The cost of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi , Riccardo Tione

We consider the problem of estimating the optimal transport map between two probability distributions, $P$ and $Q$ in $\mathbb R^d$, on the basis of i.i.d. samples. All existing statistical analyses of this problem require the assumption…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Vincent Divol , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We develop a scheme for the computation of the full-counting statistics of transport described by Markovian master equations with an arbitrary time dependence. It is based on a hierarchy of generalized density operators, where the trace of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Mónica Benito , Michael Niklas , Sigmund Kohler

Accurate and reliable bus travel time prediction in real-time is essential for improving the operational efficiency of public transportation systems. However, this remains a challenging task due to the limitations of existing models and…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-11 Yuran Sun , James Spall , Wai Wong , Xilei Zhao

We study an optimal weak transport cost related to the notion of convex order between probability measures. On the real line, we show that this weak transport cost is reached for a coupling that does not depend on the underlying cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Nathael Gozlan , Cyril Roberto , Paul-Marie Samson , Yan Shu , Prasad Tetali

The increased use of personal vehicles presents environmental challenges, prompting the exploration of public transportation as an affordable, eco-friendly alternative. However, obstacles like fixed schedules, limited routes, and extended…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-13 Meiyu , Pan , Christa Brelsford , Majbah Uddin

Given a stochastic state process $(X_t)_t$ and a real-valued submartingale cost process $(S_t)_t$, we characterize optimal stopping times $\tau$ that minimize the expectation of $S_\tau$ while realizing given initial and target…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

Different populations of vehicles travel along a network. Each population has its origin, destination and travel costs - which may well be unbounded. Under the only requirement of the continuity of the travel costs, we prove the existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Luca Giuzzi , Francesca Marcellini

This paper aims at determining under which conditions the semi-discrete optimal transport is twice differentiable with respect to the parameters of the discrete measure and exhibits numerical applications. The discussion focuses on minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Frédéric de Gournay , Jonas Kahn , Léo Lebrat

Transport phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and known to be important for various scientific domains. Examples can be found in physics, electrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, physiology, etc. To obtain new information about diffusive…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis S. Grebenkov

We address the problem of finite-horizon control of a discrete-time linear system, where the initial state distribution follows a Gaussian mixture model, the terminal state must follow a specified Gaussian distribution, and the state and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Naoya Kumagai , Kenshiro Oguri

We investigate duality and existence of dual optimizers for several adapted optimal transport problems under minimal assumptions. This includes the causal and bicausal transport, the causal and bicausal barycenter problem, and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Daniel Kršek , Gudmund Pammer

This paper is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

Non-recurrent congestion is a major problem in traffic networks that causes unexpected delays during travels. In such a scenario, it is preferable to use adaptive paths or policies where next link decisions on reaching junctions are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Hemant Gehlot , Satish V. Ukkusuri

The inverse optimal transport problem is to find the underlying cost function from the knowledge of optimal transport plans. While this amounts to solving a linear inverse problem, in this work we will be concerned with the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Alberto González-Sanz , Michel Groppe , Axel Munk

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function that is evolving according to unknown and possibly stochastic dynamics, which may depend jointly on time and on the decision variable itself. Such problems abound in the machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Joshua Cutler , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Zaid Harchaoui

We study dynamic traffic assignment with side-constraints. We first give a counter-example to a key result from the literature regarding the existence of dynamic equilibria for volume-constrained traffic models in the classical edge-delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Lukas Graf , Tobias Harks

In this article, we propose a novel characterization of law-invariant and coherent risk measures, based on a generalized optimal transport problem in which the second marginal of the admissible plans is not fixed, but required to lie within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Riccardo Bonalli , Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Laurent Pfeiffer

This paper proposes a bilevel transit network design problem considering supply side uncertainty. The upper level problem determines frequency settings to simultaneously maximize the efficiency and equity measures, which are defined by the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-06 Yu Jiang

We study the problem of optimally managing an inventory with unknown demand trend. Our formulation leads to a stochastic control problem under partial observation, in which a Brownian motion with non-observable drift can be singularly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Neofytos Rodosthenous