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This paper presents a widely applicable approach to solving (multi-marginal, martingale) optimal transport and related problems via neural networks. The core idea is to penalize the optimization problem in its dual formulation and reduce it…

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This article introduces a generalization of the discrete optimal transport, with applications to color image manipulations. This new formulation includes a relaxation of the mass conservation constraint and a regularization term. These two…

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We propose deep learning methods for classical Monge's optimal mass transportation problems, where where the distribution constraint is treated as penalty terms defined by the maximum mean discrepancy in the theory of Hilbert space…

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Optimal mass transport, also known as the earth mover's problem, is an optimization problem with important applications in various disciplines, including economics, probability theory, fluid dynamics, cosmology and geophysics to cite a few.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Said Kerrache , Yasushi Nakauchi

We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

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This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. A sliding mode is coped with differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) and that guarantees accurate tracking of the sliding motion…

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We investigate the transportation problem under a Monge cost structure and derive compact formulas for optimal dual solutions based on the northwest-corner rule. As an application illustrating how these formulas yield structural insight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Stefan Nickel , Justo Puerto , Simon Ramoser , Alberto Torrejon

On the space of probability densities, we extend the Wasserstein geodesics to the case of higher-order interpolation such as cubic spline interpolation. After presenting the natural extension of cubic splines to the Wasserstein space, we…

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We address the problem of epipolar geometry using the motion of silhouettes. Such methods match epipolar lines or frontier points across views, which are then used as the set of putative correspondences. We introduce an approach that…

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In this work, we solve a discrete optimal transport problem in a nonuniform environment. To solve the optimal transport problem, we build the cost matrix and then use classical solvers for discrete optimal transport. The challenge is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

This paper deals with a bilevel approach of the location-allocation problem with dimensional facilities. We present a general model that allows us to consider very general shapes of domains for the dimensional facilities and we prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Lina Mallozzi , Justo Puerto , Moisés Rodríguez-Madrena

This paper focuses on spatial time-optimal motion planning, a generalization of the exact time-optimal path following problem that allows the system to plan within a predefined space. In contrast to state-of-the-art methods, we drop the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jon Arrizabalaga , Markus Ryll

The optimal transport problem has many applications in machine learning, physics, biology, economics, etc. Although its goal is very clear and mathematically well-defined, finding its optimal solution can be challenging for large datasets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

We discuss the mathematical modeling and numerical discretization of transport problems on one-dimensional networks. Suitable coupling conditions are derived that guarantee conservation of mass across network junctions and dissipation of a…

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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

This paper introduces a new optimization model that integrates the multi-port stowage planning problem with the container relocation problem. This problem is formulated as a binary mathematical programming model that must find the…

The basic optimal transportation problem consists in finding the most effective way of moving masses from one location to another, while minimizing the transportation cost. Such concept has been found to be useful to understand various…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Alonso Silva , Hamidou Tembine , Eitan Altman , Merouane Debbah

Point sets matching problems can be handled by optimal transport. The mechanism behind it is that optimal transport recovers the point-to-point correspondence associated with the least curl deformation. Optimal transport is a special form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Janith Wijesinghe , Pengwen Chen

A numerical method for the solution of the elliptic Monge-Ampere Partial Differential Equation, with boundary conditions corresponding to the Optimal Transportation (OT) problem is presented. A local representation of the OT boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese , Adam M. Oberman

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

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