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We develop a full theory for the new class of Optimal Entropy-Transport problems between nonnegative and finite Radon measures in general topological spaces. They arise quite naturally by relaxing the marginal constraints typical of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

The duality theory of the Monge--Kantorovich transport problem is analyzed in a general setting. The spaces $X, Y$ are assumed to be polish and equipped with Borel probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$. The transport cost function $c:X\times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-07 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

Optimal transportation of raw material from suppliers to customers is an issue arising in logistics that is addressed here with a continuous model relying on optimal transport theory. A physics informed neuralnetwork method is advocated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Alexandre Caboussat , Anna Peruso

We present a systematic study of conditional triangular transport maps in function spaces from the perspective of optimal transportation and with a view towards amortized Bayesian inference. More specifically, we develop a theory of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Bamdad Hosseini , Alexander W. Hsu , Amirhossein Taghvaei

An imbalanced rotor is considered. A system of moving balancing masses is given. We determine the optimal movement of the balancing masses to minimize the imbalance on the rotor. The optimal movement is given by an open-loop control solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Matteo Gnuffi , Dario Pighin , Noboru Sakamoto

We consider the optimal transportation problem on a globally hyperbolic spacetime for some cost function $c_2$, which corresponds to the optimal transportation problem on a complete Riemannian manifold where the cost function is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Alec Metsch

Paper provides a method for solving the reverse Monge-Kantorovich transport problem (TP). It allows to accumulate positive decision-taking experience made by decision-taker in situations that can be presented in the form of TP. The initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Valery Vilisov

We develop the optimal transportation approach to modified log-Sobolev inequalities and to isoperimetric inequalities. Various sufficient conditions for such inequalities are given. Some of them are new even in the classical log-Sobolev…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-26 Franck Barthe , Alexander V. Kolesnikov

The aim of this survey article is to highlight several notoriously intractable problems about knots and links, as well as to provide a brief discussion of what is known about them.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-14 Marc Lackenby

The congestion formation on a urban road network is one of the key issue for the development of a sustainable mobility in the future smart cities. In this work we propose a reductionist approach studying the stationary states of a simple…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-28 Lorenzo Di Meco , Mirko Degli Esposti , Federico Bellisardi , Armando Bazzani

It is shown that, in the absence of nodes and under regularity assumptions, a solution in a finite interval of time of the free Schroedinger equation solves a minimization problem which is a stochastic generalization of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Laura M. Morato

It is well-known that duality in the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem holds true provided that the cost function $c:X\times Y\to [0,\infty]$ is lower semi-continuous or finitely valued, but it may fail otherwise. We present a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Mathias Beiglboeck , Aldo Pratelli

Chains are vector-valued signals sampling a curve. They are important to motion signal processing and to many scientific applications including location sensors. We propose a novel measure of smoothness for chains curves by generalizing the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Kucerovsky , Daniel Lemire

We consider the entropic regularization of discretized optimal transport and propose to solve its optimality conditions via a logarithmic Newton iteration. We show a quadratic convergence rate and validate numerically that the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Christoph Brauer , Christian Clason , Dirk Lorenz , Benedikt Wirth

Transportation is an essential area in the nowadays society, both for business sector and citizenry. There are different kinds of transportation systems, each one with its own characteristics. In the same way, various areas of knowledge can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Eneko Osaba

This article is an exposition on some recent theoretical advances in learning latent structured models, with a primary focus on the fundamental roles that optimal transport distances play in the statistical theory. We aim at what may be the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-19 XuanLong Nguyen , Yun Wei

This paper connects discrete optimal transport to a certain class of multi-objective optimization problems. In both settings, the decision variables can be organized into a matrix. In the multi-objective problem, the notion of Pareto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Johannes M. Schumacher

We consider the problem of transporting \nota{one probability measure into another through} the flow of a given driftless control-affine system. Under suitable regularity conditions, the controllability of the system by means of open-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Marco Caponigro , Arianna Vicari

A non-autonomous version of the standard map with a periodic variation of the parameter is introduced and studied. Symmetry properties in the variables and parameters of the map are found and used to find relations between rotation numbers…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Renato Calleja , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , David Martinez-del-Rio , Arturo Olvera

Consider a time series with missing observations but a known final point. Using control theory ideas we estimate/predict these missing observations. We obtain recurrence equations which minimize sum of squares of a control sequence. An…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Vyacheslav M. Abramov , Fima C. Klebaner