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We investigate the following question: what is the set of unit volume which can be best irrigated starting from a single source at the origin, in the sense of branched transport? We may formulate this question as a shape optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Paul Pegon , Filippo Santambrogio , Qinglan Xia

Optimal transportation theory is an area of mathematics with real-world applications in fields ranging from economics to optimal control to machine learning. We propose a new algorithm for solving discrete transport (network flow) problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-03 J. D. Walsh , Luca Dieci

We address the problem of optimal transport with a quadratic cost functional and a constraint on the flux through a constriction along the path. The constriction, conceptually represented by a toll station, limits the flow rate across. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Arthur Stephanovitch , Anqi Dong , Tryphon T. Georgiou

While motion planning approaches for automated driving often focus on safety and mathematical optimality with respect to technical parameters, they barely consider convenience, perceived safety for the passenger and comprehensibility for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Maximilian Naumann , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

Combinatorial optimization can be described as the problem of finding a feasible subset that maximizes a objective function. The paper discusses combinatorial optimization problems, where for each dimension the set of feasible subsets is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Nimrod Megiddo

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributions and has recently become an important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Gabriel Peyré

We study multi-marginal optimal transport problems from a probabilistic graphical model perspective. We point out an elegant connection between the two when the underlying cost for optimal transport allows a graph structure. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Isabel Haasler , Rahul Singh , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

We establish a connection between Optimal Transport Theory and classical Convection Theory for geophysical flows. Our starting point is the model designed few years ago by Angenent, Haker and Tannenbaum to solve some Optimal Transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Yann Brenier

Classic optimal transport theory is formulated through minimizing the expected transport cost between two given distributions. We propose the framework of distorted optimal transport by minimizing a distorted expected cost, which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Haiyan Liu , Bin Wang , Ruodu Wang , Sheng Chao Zhuang

Optimal Transport is a theory that allows to define geometrical notions of distance between probability distributions and to find correspondences, relationships, between sets of points. Many machine learning applications are derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Titouan Vayer

We develop primal and mixed variational formulations of transport phenomena on cell complexes with simple polytope connectivity. This framework addresses materials with internal structures comprising components of different topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Kiprian Berbatov , Andrey P. Jivkov

A prominent model for transportation networks is branched transport, which seeks the optimal transportation scheme to move material from a given initial to a final distribution. The cost of the scheme encodes a higher transport efficiency…

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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

We consider an extension of the Monge-Kantorovitch optimal transportation problem. The mass is transported along a continuous semimartingale, and the cost of transportation depends on the drift and the diffusion coefficients of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

Optimizing passengers routes is crucial to design efficient transportation networks. Recent results show that optimal transport provides an efficient alternative to standard optimization methods. However, it is not yet clear if this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-19 Alessandro Lonardi , Mario Putti , Caterina De Bacco

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

This paper is concerned with six variational problems and their mutual connections: The quadratic Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, the Schr\"odinger problem, Brenier's relaxed model for incompressible fluids, the so-called Br\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Aymeric Baradat , Léonard Monsaingeon

The mixing problem is classically encountered in the study of differential equations applied to fluid dynamics. An understanding of fluid movement under constraints is particularly important in the field of medicine as many therapeutics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Neil Zhao