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This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

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

The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem is empirically known to have sparse solutions: its optimal coupling $\pi_{\varepsilon}$ has sparse support for small regularization parameter $\varepsilon$, in contrast to entropic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-13 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

By adding entropic regularization, multi-marginal optimal transport problems can be transformed into tensor scaling problems, which can be solved numerically using the multi-marginal Sinkhorn algorithm. The main computational bottleneck of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Christoph Strössner , Daniel Kressner

In this note, we extend the regularity theory for monotone measure-preserving maps, also known as optimal transports for the quadratic cost optimal transport problem, to the case when the support of the target measure is an arbitrary convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Alessio Figalli , Yash Jhaveri

Many research has been conducted about quadratic programming and inverse optimization. In this paper we present the combination aspect of these subjects, applying on transportation problem. First, we obtain the inverse form of quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

An optimal transport problem on finite spaces is a linear program. Recently, a relaxation of the optimal transport problem via strictly convex functions, especially via the Kullback--Leibler divergence, sheds new light on data sciences.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Asuka Takatsu

We study the consequences of the equivalence between the least gradient problem and a boundary-to-boundary optimal transport problem in two dimensions. We extend the relationship between the two problems to their respective dual problems,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Wojciech Górny

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

We study the semi-discrete formulation of one-dimensional partial optimal transport with quadratic cost, where a probability density is partially transported to a finite sum of Dirac masses of smaller total mass. This problem arises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Adrien Cances , Hugo Leclerc

We study the statistical properties of the entropic optimal (self) transport problem for smooth probability measures. We provide an accurate description of the limit distribution for entropic (self-)potentials and plans as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Gilles Mordant

We consider an optimal transport problem on the unit simplex whose solutions are given by gradients of exponentially concave functions and prove two main results. First, we show that the optimal transport is the large deviation limit of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Soumik Pal , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

In optimal transport, quadratic regularization is a sparse alternative to entropic regularization: the solution measure tends to have small support. Computational experience suggests that the support decreases monotonically to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz , Andrés Riveros Valdevenito

Optimal transport has found widespread applications in signal processing and machine learning. Among its many equivalent formulations, optimal transport seeks to reconstruct a random variable/vector with a prescribed distribution at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jun Chen , Jia Wang , Ruibin Li , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Huan Liu , Yuanhao Yu

The Sinkhorn algorithm is a numerical method for the solution of optimal transport problems. Here, I give a brief survey of this algorithm, with a strong emphasis on its geometric origin: it is natural to view it as a discretization, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Klas Modin

We address optimal control problems on the space of measures for an objective containing a smooth functional and an optimal transport regularization. That is, the quadratic Monge-Kantorovich distance between a given prior measure and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Nicolas Borchard , Gerd Wachsmuth

We prove existence of an optimal transport map in the Monge-Kantorovich problem associated to a cost $c(x,y)$ which is not finite everywhere, but coincides with $|x-y|^2$ if the displacement $y-x$ belongs to a given convex set $C$ and it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Chloé Jimenez , Filippo Santambrogio

In several applications, including imaging of deformable objects while in motion, simultaneous localization and mapping, and unlabeled sensing, we encounter the problem of recovering a signal that is measured subject to unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yanting Ma , Petros T. Boufounos , Hassan Mansour , Shuchin Aeron

In this paper we study the class of optimal entropy-transport problems introduced by Liero, Mielke and Savar\'e in Inventiones Mathematicae 211 in 2018. This class of unbalanced transport metrics allows for transport between measures of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 David P. Bourne , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth
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