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Traditional vehicle routing algorithms do not consider the changing nature of traffic. While implementations of Dijkstra's algorithm with varying weights exist, the weights are often changed after the outcome of algorithm is executed, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Piyush Udhan , Akhilesh Ganeshkar , Poobigan Murugesan , Abhishek Raj Permani , Sameep Sanjeeva , Parth Deshpande

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

Many numerical and learning algorithms rely on the solution of the Monge-Kantorovich problem and Wasserstein distances, which provide appropriate distributional metrics. While the natural approach is to treat the problem as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mohsen Sadr , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Hossein Gorji

Optimal transport (OT) is a widely used technique for distribution alignment, with applications throughout the machine learning, graphics, and vision communities. Without any additional structural assumptions on trans-port, however, OT can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chi-Heng Lin , Mehdi Azabou , Eva L. Dyer

Efficient computation of the optimal transport distance between two distributions serves as an algorithm subroutine that empowers various applications. This paper develops a scalable first-order optimization-based method that computes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gen Li , Yanxi Chen , Yu Huang , Yuejie Chi , H. Vincent Poor , Yuxin Chen

We suggest a global perspective on dynamic network flow problems that takes advantage of the similarities to port-Hamiltonian dynamics. Dynamic minimum cost flow problems are formulated as open-loop optimal control problems for general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Onur Tanil Doganay , Kathrin Klamroth , Bruno Lang , Michael Stiglmayr , Claudia Totzeck

In this paper we study the Steiner tree problem over a dynamic set of terminals. We consider the model where we are given an $n$-vertex graph $G=(V,E,w)$ with positive real edge weights, and our goal is to maintain a tree which is a good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Jakub Łącki , Jakub Oćwieja , Marcin Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski , Anna Zych

In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal solution is obtained from the long-time limit of the gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Enrico Facca , Michele Benzi

An algorithm on weighted graphs is called universally optimal if it is optimal for every input graph, in the worst case taken over all weight assignments. Informally, this means the algorithm is competitive even with algorithms that are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn

We investigate the minimum cost of a wide class of combinatorial optimization problems over random bipartite geometric graphs in $\mathbb{R}^d$ where the edge cost between two points is given by a $p$-th power of their Euclidean distance.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Michael Goldman , Dario Trevisan

We consider a discrete-time model of continuous-time distributed optimization over dynamic directed-graphs (digraphs) with applications to distributed learning. Our optimization algorithm works over general strongly connected dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Wei Jiang , Muwahida Liaquat , Alireza Aghasi , Houman Zarrabi

To remedy the drawbacks of full-mass or fixed-mass constraints in classical optimal transport, we propose adaptive optimal transport which is distinctive from the classical optimal transport in its ability of adaptive-mass preserving. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Pei Yang , Qi Tan , Guihua Wen

We present a distributed self-adjusting algorithm for skip graphs that minimizes the average routing costs between arbitrary communication pairs by performing topological adaptation to the communication pattern. Our algorithm is fully…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sikder Huq , Sukumar Ghosh

Real-world network systems are inherently dynamic, with network topologies undergoing continuous changes over time. Previous works often focus on static networks or rely on complete prior knowledge of evolving topologies, whereas real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Chunyu Pan , Xizhe Zhang , Haoyu Zheng , Zhao Su , Changsheng Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

We study an optimal transport problem in a compact convex set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ where bulk transport is coupled to dynamic optimal transport on a metric graph $ \mathsf{G} = (\mathsf{V},\mathsf{E})$ which is embedded in $\Omega$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Marcello Carioni , Juliane Krautz , Jan-F. Pietschmann

We investigate the optimal transport problem between probability measures when the underlying cost function is understood to satisfy a least action principle, also known as a Lagrangian cost. These generalizations are useful when connecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Brandon Amos

We consider a profit maximization problem in an urban mobility on-demand service, of which the operator owns a fleet, provides both exclusive and shared trip services, and dynamically determines prices of offers. With knowledge of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Han Qiu , Ruimin Li , Jinhua Zhao

We present a novel neural-networks-based algorithm to compute optimal transport maps and plans for strong and weak transport costs. To justify the usage of neural networks, we prove that they are universal approximators of transport plans…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexander Korotin , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev

Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon