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Minimizing the number of reshuffling operations at maritime container terminals incorporates the Pre-Marshalling Problem (PMP) as an important problem. Based on an analysis of existing solution approaches we develop new heuristics utilizing…

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We present new geometric intuition on dynamical versions of regularized optimal transport. We introduce two families of variational problems on Riemannian manifolds which contain analogues of the Schr\"odinger bridge problem and the Yasue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Flavien Léger

Inverse problems in physical or biological sciences often involve recovering an unknown parameter that is random. The sought-after quantity is a probability distribution of the unknown parameter, that produces data that aligns with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-02 Qin Li , Maria Oprea , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

Schr\"{o}dinger bridge is a diffusion process that steers a given distribution to another in a prescribed time while minimizing the effort to do so. It can be seen as the stochastic dynamical version of the optimal mass transport, and has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Alexis M. H. Teter , Wenqing Wang , Abhishek Halder

This paper concerns the application of techniques from optimal transport (OT) to mean field control, in which the probability measures of interest in OT correspond to empirical distributions associated with a large collection of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Thomas Le Corre , Ana Busic , Sean Meyn

The Monge-Kantorovich mass-transportation problem has been shown to be fundamental for various basic problems in analysis and geometry in recent years. Shen and Zheng (2010) proposed a probability method to transform the celebrated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Zuo Quan Xu , Jia-An Yan

The aim of this paper is to obtain quantitative bounds for solutions to the optimal matching problem in dimension two. These bounds show that up to a logarithmically divergent shift, the optimal transport maps are close to be the identity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Michael Goldman , Martin Huesmann , Felix Otto

This article details a general numerical framework to approximate so-lutions to linear programs related to optimal transport. The general idea is to introduce an entropic regularization of the initial linear program. This regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Marco Cuturi , Luca Nenna , Gabriel Peyré

We consider a Beckmann formulation of an unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. The $\Gamma$-convergence of this formulation of UOT to the corresponding optimal transport (OT) problem is established as the balancing parameter $\alpha$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Zhe Xiong , Lei Li , Ya-Nan Zhu , Xiaoqun Zhang

We propose and study a system of Schr\"odinger's problems and functional equations in probability theory. More precisely, we consider a system of variational problems of relative entropies for probability measures on a Euclidean space with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Toshio Mikami , Jin Feng

Finding optimal trajectories for multiple traffic demands in a congested network is a challenging task. Optimal transport theory is a principled approach that has been used successfully to study various transportation problems. Its usage is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Michael Muehlebach , Caterina De Bacco

The basic problem of optimal transportation consists in minimizing the expected costs $\mathbb {E}[c(X_1,X_2)]$ by varying the joint distribution $(X_1,X_2)$ where the marginal distributions of the random variables $X_1$ and $X_2$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Nicolas Juillet

We revisit the optimal transport problem over angular velocity dynamics given by the controlled Euler equation. The solution of this problem enables stochastic guidance of spin states of a rigid body (e.g., spacecraft) over a hard deadline…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Abhishek Halder

Optimal Transport (OT) problems arise in a wide range of applications, from physics to economics. Getting numerical approximate solution of these problems is a challenging issue of practical importance. In this work, we investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Aurélien Alfonsi , Rafaël Coyaud , Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

Optimal transport (OT) is a versatile framework for comparing probability measures, with many applications to statistics, machine learning, and applied mathematics. However, OT distances suffer from computational and statistical scalability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato , Gabriel Rioux , Ritwik Sadhu

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

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…

While techniques have been developed for chance constrained stochastic optimal control using sample disturbance data that provide a probabilistic confidence bound for chance constraint satisfaction, far less is known about how to use sample…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Shawn Priore , Meeko Oishi

Optimal transport (OT) provides powerful tools for comparing probability measures in various types. The Wasserstein distance which arises naturally from the idea of OT is widely used in many machine learning applications. Unfortunately,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Shu Liu , Haodong Sun , Hongyuan Zha