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This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang , Zhou Zhou

Initially introduced in the framework of quantum control, the so-called "monotonic algorithms" have demonstrated excellent numerical performance when dealing with bilinear optimal control problems. This paper presents a unified formulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Julien Salomon , Gabriel Turinici

Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-13 François-Pierre Paty , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Marco Cuturi

This work investigates several aspects related to quantitative stability in optimal transport, as well as uniqueness of the dual transport problem. Our main contributions are as follows. Chapter 1: Observations regarding the quantitative…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 William Ford

We study the regularity of solutions to an optimal transportation problem where the dimension of the source is larger than that of the target. We demonstrate that if the target is $c$-convex, then the source has a canonical foliation whose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Brendan Pass

We study the vanishing-regularization limit of entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT) for the Euclidean distance cost $c(x,y)=\|x-y\|$ in dimension $d>1$. We develop a comprehensive variational convergence framework that entails…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Marcel Nutz , Chenyang Zhong

This paper investigates the optimal transport problem within the framework of Linear Quadratic optimal control systems. We establish the well-posedness of the Monge problem and analyze the regularity of the resulting optimal transport map,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Luca Rizzi , Alec Jacopo Almo Schiavoni Piazza

The main result of this paper is a proof using real analysis of the monotonicity of the topological entropy for the family of quadratic maps, sometimes called Milnor's Monotonicity Conjecture. In contrast, the existing proofs rely in one…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-13 José M. Amigó , Angel Giménez

We study the convergence of divergence-regularized optimal transport as the regularization parameter vanishes. Sharp rates for general divergences including relative entropy or $L^{p}$ regularization, general transport costs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz

We study stability and sample complexity properties of divergence regularized optimal transport (DOT). First, we obtain quantitative stability results for optimizers of DOT measured in Wasserstein distance, which are applicable to a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Erhan Bayraktar , Stephan Eckstein , Xin Zhang

This paper is concerned with an optimization problem governed by the Kantorovich optimal transportation problem. This gives rise to a bilevel optimization problem, which can be reformulated as a mathematical problem with complementarity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Sebastian Hillbrecht , Christian Meyer

Given a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, compact and without boundary, we analyze the dynamical optimal mass transport problem where the cost is given by the sum of the kinetic energy and the relative entropy with respect to a reference…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Gabriele Bocchi , Alessio Porretta

Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

This work studies how the introduction of the entropic regularization term in unbalanced Optimal Transport (OT) models may alter their homogeneity with respect to the input measures. We observe that in common settings (including balanced OT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Théo Lacombe

We develop a general approach to prove global regularity estimates for quadratic optimal transport using the entropic regularisation of the problem and the Prekopa-Leindler inequality.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Sylvestre

Developing a contemporary optimal transport (OT) solver requires navigating trade-offs among several critical requirements: GPU parallelization, scalability to high-dimensional problems, theoretical convergence guarantees, empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mete Kemertas , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Allan D. Jepson

A natural and important question in multi-marginal optimal transport is whether the \emph{Monge ansatz} is justified; does there exist a solution of Monge, or deterministic, form? We address this question for the quadratic cost when each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Pedram Emami , Brendan Pass

The modeling of phenomenological structure is a crucial aspect in inverse imaging problems. One emerging modeling tool in computational imaging is the optimal transport framework. Its ability to model geometric displacements across an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 John Lee , Nicholas P. Bertrand , Christopher J. Rozell

We analyze optimal transport problems with additional entropic cost evaluated along curves in the Wasserstein space which join two probability measures $m_0,m_1$. The effect of the additional entropy functional results into an elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Alessio Porretta

The inverse problem of electrical impedance tomography is severely ill-posed, meaning that, only limited information about the conductivity can in practice be recovered from boundary measurements of electric current and voltage. Recently it…

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