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Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

We develop a numerical method for the martingale analogue of the Benamou--Brenier optimal transport problem, which seeks a martingale interpolating two prescribed marginals which is closest to the Brownian motion. Recent contributions have…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-10 Manuel Hasenbichler , Benjamin Joseph , Gregoire Loeper , Jan Obloj , Gudmund Pammer

The objective of this paper is to develop a duality between a novel Entropy Martingale Optimal Transport problem (A) and an associated optimization problem (B). In (A) we follow the approach taken in the Entropy Optimal Transport (EOT)…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-30 Alessandro Doldi , Marco Frittelli

Inverse optimal transport (OT) refers to the problem of learning the cost function for OT from observed transport plan or its samples. In this paper, we derive an unconstrained convex optimization formulation of the inverse OT problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shaojun Ma , Haodong Sun , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

Multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) has emerged as a useful framework for many applied problems. However, compared to the well-studied classical two-marginal optimal transport theory, analysis of MOT is far more challenging and remains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Pengtao Li , Xiaohui Chen

Theoretical models applied to option pricing should take into account the empirical characteristics of the underlying financial time series. In this paper, we show how to price basket options when assets follow a shifted log-normal process…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-12-17 Tommaso Paletta , Arturo Leccadito , Radu Tunaru

We present a primal-dual dynamical formulation of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for (semi-)convex cost functions. Even in the two-marginal setting, this formulation applies to cost functions not covered by the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Brendan Pass , Yair Shenfeld

The duality between the robust (or equivalently, model independent) hedging of path dependent European options and a martingale optimal transport problem is proved. The financial market is modeled through a risky asset whose price is only…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Yan Dolinsky , H. Mete Soner

An American option grants the holder the right to select the time at which to exercise the option, so pricing an American option entails solving an optimal stopping problem. Difficulties in applying standard numerical methods to complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Glasserman , Bin Yu

The optimal transport problem for measures supported on non-Euclidean spaces has recently gained ample interest in diverse applications involving representation learning. In this paper, we focus on circular probability measures, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Rocio Diaz Martin , Ivan Medri , Yikun Bai , Xinran Liu , Kangbai Yan , Gustavo K. Rohde , Soheil Kolouri

Multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) is a powerful framework for modeling interactions between multiple distributions, yet its applicability is bottlenecked by a high computational overhead. Entropic regularization provides computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dor Tsur , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Haim Permuter

Minibatch optimal transport coupling straightens paths in unconditional flow matching. This leads to computationally less demanding inference as fewer integration steps and less complex numerical solvers can be employed when numerically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ho Kei Cheng , Alexander Schwing

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

Pricing of exotic financial derivatives, such as Asian and multi-asset American basket options, poses significant challenges for standard numerical methods such as binomial trees or Monte Carlo methods. While the former often scales…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-26 Maarten van Damme , Rishi Sreedhar , Martin Ganahl

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

Distributionally robust optimization has been shown to offer a principled way to regularize learning models. In this paper, we find that Tikhonov regularization is distributionally robust in an optimal transport sense (i.e., if an adversary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Jiajin Li , Sirui Lin , Jose Blanchet , Viet Anh Nguyen

Motivated by robust dynamic resource allocation in operations research, we study the \textit{Online Learning to Transport} (OLT) problem where the decision variable is a probability measure, an infinite-dimensional object. We draw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Wenxuan Guo , YoonHaeng Hur , Tengyuan Liang , Christopher Ryan

Optimal Transport (OT) theory has seen an increasing amount of attention from the computer science community due to its potency and relevance in modeling and machine learning. It introduces means that serve as powerful ways to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Luis Caicedo Torres , Luiz Manella Pereira , M. Hadi Amini

Randomised arcade processes are a class of continuous stochastic processes that interpolate in a strong sense, i.e., omega by omega, between any given ordered set of random variables, at fixed pre-specified times. Utilising these processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Georges Kassis , Andrea Macrina

We study the Schr\"odinger-Bass problem, a one-parameter family of semimartingale optimal transport problems indexed by $\beta>0$, whose limiting regimes interpolate between the classical Schr\"odinger bridge, the Brenier-Strassen problem,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Manuel Hasenbichler , Gudmund Pammer , Stefan Thonhauser