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We propose a discrete transport equation on graphs which connects distributions on both vertices and edges. We then derive a discrete analogue of the Benamou-Brenier formulation for Wasserstein-$1$ distance on a graph and as a result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kieran Morris , Oliver Johnson

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

We study a variant of the dynamical optimal transport problem in which the energy to be minimised is modulated by the covariance matrix of the distribution. Such transport metrics arise naturally in mean-field limits of certain ensemble…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Martin Burger , Matthias Erbar , Franca Hoffmann , Daniel Matthes , André Schlichting

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

Many existing transductive bounds rely on classical complexity measures that are computationally intractable and often misaligned with empirical behavior. In this work, we establish new representation-based generalization bounds in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 MoonJeong Park , Seungbeom Lee , Kyungmin Kim , Jaeseung Heo , Seunghyuk Cho , Shouheng Li , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

We develop an explicit second order staggered finite difference discretization scheme for simulating the transport of highly heterogeneous gas mixtures through pipeline networks. This study is motivated by the proposed blending of hydrogen…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yan Brodskyi , Vitaliy Gyrya , Anatoly Zlotnik

We outline a new control system model for the distributed dynamics of compressible gas flow through large-scale pipeline networks with time-varying injections, withdrawals, and control actions of compressors and regulators. The gas dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Anatoly Zlotnik , Michael Chertkov , Scott Backhaus

This paper presents a Wasserstein attraction approach for solving dynamic mass transport problems over networks. In the transport problem over networks, we start with a distribution over the set of nodes that needs to be "transported" to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Ferran Arqué , César A. Uribe , Carlos Ocampo-Martinez

We present control-oriented models for transient dynamics of isothermal one-dimensional gas flow through multiple pipes in series and intersecting pipe geometries. These composite models subsume algebraic constraints that would otherwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Sven Brüggemann , Robert R. Bitmead

The current energy transition promotes the convergence of operation between the power and natural gas systems. In that direction, it becomes paramount to improve the modeling of non-convex natural gas flow dynamics within the coordinated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Adriano Arrigo , Mihály Dolányi , Kenneth Bruninx , Jean-François Toubeau

This article details a novel numerical scheme to approximate gradient flows for optimal transport (i.e. Wasserstein) metrics. These flows have proved useful to tackle theoretically and numerically non-linear diffusion equations that model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Gabriel Peyré

We present an optimal mass transport framework on the space of Gaussian mixture models, which are widely used in statistical inference. Our method leads to a natural way to compare, interpolate and average Gaussian mixture models.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

We provide a general bound on the Wasserstein distance between two arbitrary distributions of sequences of Bernoulli random variables. The bound is in terms of a mixing quantity for the Glauber dynamics of one of the sequences, and a simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Gesine Reinert , Nathan Ross

We present a novel framework based on optimal transport for the challenging problem of comparing graphs. Specifically, we exploit the probabilistic distribution of smooth graph signals defined with respect to the graph topology. This allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille EL Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

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

The least gradient problem (minimizing the total variation with given boundary data) is equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain, which is in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Filippo Santambrogio , Samer Dweik

In this paper, we introduce a variant of optimal transport adapted to the causal structure given by an underlying directed graph $G$. Different graph structures lead to different specifications of the optimal transport problem. For…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Patrick Cheridito , Stephan Eckstein

In this paper, the equations governing the unsteady flow of a perfect polytropic gas in three space dimensions are considered. The basic similarity reductions for this system are performed. Reduced equations and exact solutions associated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Mehdi Nadjafikhah

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub

We consider the transport of gas in long pipes and pipeline networks for which the dynamics are dominated by friction at the pipe walls. The governing equations can be formulated as an abstract dissipative Hamiltonian system which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Herbert Egger , Jan Giesselmann