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In this note we prove estimates for the average cost in the quadratic optimal transport problem on the two-dimensional flat torus which are optimal up to a double logarithm. We also prove sharp estimates on the displacement. This is based…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Michael Goldman , Martin Huesmann , Felix Otto

We investigate the random bipartite optimal matching problem on a flat torus in two-dimensions, considering general strictly convex power costs of the distance. We extend the successful ansatz first introduced by Caracciolo et al. for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Luigi Ambrosio , Federico Vitillaro , Dario Trevisan

We propose a new approach for the study of the quadratic stochastic Euclidean bipartite matching problem between two sets of $N$ points each, $N\gg 1$. The points are supposed independently randomly generated on a domain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-02 Sergio Caracciolo , Gabriele Sicuro

We study the distortion of one-sided and two-sided matching problems on the line. In the one-sided case, $n$ agents need to be matched to $n$ items, and each agent's cost in a matching is their distance from the item they were matched to.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Mohamad Latifian , Emma Rewinski , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the expected cost of the random matching problem on a $2$-dimensional compact manifold, improving in several aspects the results of L. Ambrosio, F. Stra and D. Trevisan (A PDE approach to a 2-dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Federico Glaudo

We consider the problem of partitioning a two-dimensional flat torus $T^2$ into $m$ sets in order to minimize the maximal diameter of a part. For $m \leqslant 25$ we give numerical estimates for the maximal diameter $d_m(T^2)$ at which the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Dmitry Protasov , Alexander Tolmachev , Vsevolod Voronov

We analyze the random Euclidean bipartite matching problem on the hypertorus in $d$ dimensions with quadratic cost and we derive the two--point correlation function for the optimal matching, using a proper ansatz introduced by Caracciolo et…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-23 Sergio Caracciolo , Gabriele Sicuro

We prove a sharp stability estimate for the problem of reconstructing a symmetric 2-tensor from its integrals along all maximal geodesics on a simple manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Plamen Stefanov

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

We consider the problem of finding a continuous and non-rigid matching between a 2D contour and a 3D mesh. While such problems can be solved to global optimality by finding a shortest path in the product graph between both shapes, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Paul Roetzer , Zorah Lähner , Florian Bernard

In this work, we solve a discrete optimal transport problem in a nonuniform environment. To solve the optimal transport problem, we build the cost matrix and then use classical solvers for discrete optimal transport. The challenge is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

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

Morse matchings capture the essential structural information of discrete Morse functions. We show that computing optimal Morse matchings is NP-hard and give an integer programming formulation for the problem. Then we present polyhedral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Joswig , Marc E. Pfetsch

In this paper we characterize sharp time-data tradeoffs for optimization problems used for solving linear inverse problems. We focus on the minimization of a least-squares objective subject to a constraint defined as the sub-level set of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Samet Oymak , Benjamin Recht , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

We propose a new algorithm to the problem of polygonal curve approximation based on a multiresolution approach. This algorithm is suboptimal but still maintains some optimality between successive levels of resolution using dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre-François Marteau , Gilbas Ménier

Although many well-known algorithms can solve each bipartite matching problem instance efficiently, it remains an open question how one could estimate the expected optimal matching distance for arbitrary numbers of randomly distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Shiyu Shen , Yuhui Zhai , Yanfeng Ouyang

There is a recent interest on first-order methods for linear programming (LP). In this paper,we propose a stochastic algorithm using variance reduction and restarts for solving sharp primal-dual problems such as LP. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

We show that the average cost for the traveling-salesman problem in two dimensions, which is the archetypal problem in combinatorial optimization, in the bipartite case, is simply related to the average cost of the assignment problem with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-03 Riccardo Capelli , Sergio Caracciolo , Andrea Di Gioacchino , Enrico M. Malatesta

The present paper is devoted to studying of minimal parametric fillings of finite metric spaces (a version of optimal connection problem) by methods of Linear Programming. The estimate on the multiplicity of multi-tours appearing in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-24 A. O. Ivanov , A. A. Tuzhilin

We present a $\frac53$-approximation algorithm for the matching augmentation problem (MAP): given a multi-graph with edges of cost either zero or one such that the edges of cost zero form a matching, find a 2-edge connected spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-14 J. Cheriyan , R. Cummings , J. Dippel , J. Zhu
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