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In compact settings, the convergence rate of the empirical optimal transport cost to its population value is well understood for a wide class of spaces and cost functions. In unbounded settings, however, hitherto available results require…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Thomas Staudt , Shayan Hundrieser

The function that maps a family of probability measures to the solution of the dual entropic optimal transport problem is known as the Schr\"odinger map. We prove that when the cost function is $\mathcal{C}^{k+1}$ with $k\in \mathbb{N}^*$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Guillaume Carlier , Lénaïc Chizat , Maxime Laborde

Optimal transport (OT) formalizes the problem of finding an optimal coupling between probability measures given a cost matrix. The inverse problem of inferring the cost given a coupling is Inverse Optimal Transport (IOT). IOT is less well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Wei-Ting Chiu , Pei Wang , Patrick Shafto

Several recent applications of optimal transport (OT) theory to machine learning have relied on regularization, notably entropy and the Sinkhorn algorithm. Because matrix-vector products are pervasive in the Sinkhorn algorithm, several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Meyer Scetbon , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

The optimal transport map between the standard Gaussian measure and an $\alpha$-strongly log-concave probability measure is $\alpha^{-1/2}$-Lipschitz, as first observed in a celebrated theorem of Caffarelli. In this paper, we apply two…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Sinho Chewi , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian

The Optimal Transport (OT) problem with squared Euclidean cost consists in finding a coupling between two input measures that maximizes correlation. Consequently, the optimal coupling is often singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Paul Freulon , Nikitas Georgakis , Victor Panaretos

We study the vanishing-regularization limit of entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT) for the Euclidean distance cost $c(x,y)=\|x-y\|$ in dimension $d>1$. We develop a comprehensive variational convergence framework that entails…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Marcel Nutz , Chenyang Zhong

We consider entropically regularized, semi-discrete versions of variational problems on the set of probability measures involving optimal transport as well as other terms. We prove that the solutions can be characterized by well-posed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Adrien Cances , Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) extends optimal transport (OT) to take into account mass variations to compare distributions. This is crucial to make OT successful in ML applications, making it robust to data normalization and outliers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Thibault Séjourné , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

We propose a numerical algorithm for the computation of multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT) problems involving general probability measures that are not necessarily discrete. By developing a relaxation scheme in which marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

In this paper, we address the numerical solution to the multimarginal optimal transport (MMOT) with pairwise costs. MMOT, as a natural extension from the classical two-marginal optimal transport, has many important applications including…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Bohan Zhou , Matthew Parno

Optimal transport has emerged as a fundamental methodology with applications spanning multiple research areas in recent years. However, the convergence rate of the empirical estimator to its population counterpart suffers from the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

Regularization by the Shannon entropy enables us to efficiently and approximately solve optimal transport problems on a finite set. This paper is concerned with regularized optimal transport problems via Bregman divergence. We introduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Keiichi Morikuni , Koya Sakakibara , Asuka Takatsu

We introduce a traceable operator-algebraic framework for incompressible transport on M= T3 (and, more generally, compact Riemannian manifolds endowed with a smooth invariant probability measure). Given an autonomous divergence-free…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Gautier-Edouard Edouard Filardo

We prove that non-commutative martingale transforms are of weak type $(1,1)$. More precisely, there is an absolute constant $C$ such that if $\M$ is a semi-finite von Neumann algebra and $(\M_n)_{n=1}^\infty$ is an increasing filtration of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Narcisse Randrianantoanina

In this paper, we introduce weak optimal entropy transport problems that cover both optimal entropy transport problems and weak optimal transport problems introduced by Liero, Mielke, and Savar\'{e} [27]; and Gozlan, Roberto, Samson and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nhan-Phu Chung , Thanh-Son Trinh

In this paper, we consider Strassen's version of optimal transport (OT) problem, which concerns minimizing the excess-cost probability (i.e., the probability that the cost is larger than a given value) over all couplings of two given…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Lei Yu

Entropic regularization is quickly emerging as a new standard in optimal transport (OT). It enables to cast the OT computation as a differentiable and unconstrained convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Mathieu Blondel , Vivien Seguy , Antoine Rolet

In two and three dimensions, we analyze a finite element method to approximate the solutions of an eigenvalue problem arising from neutron transport. We derive the eigenvalue problem of interest, which results to be non-symmetric. Under a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Nicolás A. Barnafi , Felipe Lepe , Francisca Muñoz Riquelme

We introduce graphs associated to transport problems between discrete marginals, that allow to characterize the set of all optimizers given one primal optimizer. In particular, we establish that connectivity of those graphs is a necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Beatrice Acciaio , Berenice Anne Neumann
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