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Parametrized measures (or Young measures) enable to reformulate non-convex variational problems as convex problems at the cost of enlarging the search space from space of functions to space of measures. To benefit from such machinery, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Rayehe Karimi Mahabadi , Jianfeng Lu , Hossein Salahshoor

We show that a certain entropy-like function is convex, under an optimal transport problem that is adapted to Ricci flow. We use this to reprove the monotonicity of Perelman's reduced volume.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-09 John Lott

In this note functions that transform open segments of a linear space into open segments of another linear space are studied and characterized. Assuming that the range is non-collinear, it is proved that such a map can always be expressed…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Zsolt Páles

We define a class of divergences to measure differences between probability density functions in one-dimensional sample space. The construction is based on the convex function with the Jacobi operator of mapping function that pushforwards…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Wuchen Li

In this paper, we extend the scope of Caffarelli's contraction theorem, which provides a measure of the Lipschitz constant for optimal transport maps between log-concave probability densities in $\R^d$. Our focus is on a broader category of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Guillaume Carlier , Alessio Figalli , Filippo Santambrogio

The fundamental theorem on commutant lifting due to Sarason does not carry over to the setting of the polydisc. This paper presents two classifications of commutant lifting in several variables. The first classification links the lifting…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Deepak K. D. , Jaydeb Sarkar

Spatial coupling has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm to construct graphical models that work well under low-complexity message-passing algorithms. Although much progress has been made on the analysis of spatially coupled models…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Rafah El-Khatib , Nicolas Macris , Ruediger Urbanke

In this paper, we study the optimal transport problem induced by separable cost functions. In this framework, transportation can be expressed as the composition of two lower-dimensional movements. Through this reformulation, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Gennaro Auricchio

Optimal transport is a geometrically intuitive, robust and flexible metric for sample comparison in data analysis and machine learning. Its formal Riemannian structure allows for a local linearization via a tangent space approximation. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Clément Sarrazin , Bernhard Schmitzer

In many applications, such as economics, operations research and reinforcement learning, one often needs to estimate a multivariate regression function f subject to a convexity constraint. For example, in sequential decision processes the…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-09-05 Lauren A. Hannah , David B. Dunson

Lifting is an efficient technique to scale up graphical models generalized to relational domains by exploiting the underlying symmetries. Concurrently, neural models are continuously expanding from grid-like tensor data into structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Gustav Sourek , Filip Zelezny , Ondrej Kuzelka

Over the past years a theory of conjugate duality for set-valued functions that map into the set of upper closed subsets of a preordered topological vector space was developed. For scalar duality theory, continuity of convex functions plays…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-13 Frank Heyde , Carola Schrage

This article, which is substantially motivated by the previous joint work with J. McKay [8], establishes the analytic analogues of the relations we found free probability has with Witt vectors. Therefore, we first present a novel analytic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Roland M. Friedrich

In this paper we consider functions in the Hardy space $\mathbf{H}_2^{p\times q}$ defined in the unit disc of matrix-valued. We show that it is possible, as in the scalar case, to decompose those functions as linear combinations of suitably…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-11-25 D. Alpay , F. Colombo , T. Qian , I. Sabadini

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 investigate the properties of a class of piecewise-fractional maps arising from the introduction of an invariance under rescaling into convex quadratic maps. The subsequent maps are quasiconvex, and pseudoconvex on specific convex cones;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Alexandra Zverovich , Matthew Hutchings , Bertrand Gauthier

In machine learning and computer vision, optimal transport has had significant success in learning generative models and defining metric distances between structured and stochastic data objects, that can be cast as probability measures. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Anton Mallasto , Markus Heinonen , Samuel Kaski

We study the problem of estimating, in the sense of optimal transport metrics, a measure which is assumed supported on a manifold embedded in a Hilbert space. By establishing a precise connection between optimal transport metrics, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Guillermo D. Canas , Lorenzo Rosasco

We study the Optimal Transport problem for laws of random measures in the Kantorovich-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathcal{P}_2(\mathrm{H}))$, associated with a Hilbert space $\mathrm{H}$ (with finite or infinite dimension) and for the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Alessandro Pinzi , Giuseppe Savaré

Extension problems for polynomial valuations on different cones of convex functions are investigated. It is shown that for the classes of functions under consideration, the extension problem reduces to a simple geometric obstruction on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Jonas Knoerr , Jacopo Ulivelli