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Discrete optimal transport solvers do not scale well on dense large problems since they do not explicitly exploit the geometric structure of the cost function. In analogy to continuous optimal transport we provide a framework to verify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Bernhard Schmitzer

It is well known that the quadratic-cost optimal transportation problem is formally equivalent to the second boundary value problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. Viscosity solutions are a powerful tool for analysing and approximating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt

Optimal transport has emerged as a fundamental methodology with applications spanning multiple research areas in recent years. However, the convergence rate of the empirical estimator to its population counterpart suffers from the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

During recent decades, there has been a substantial development in optimal mass transport theory and methods. In this work, we consider multi-marginal problems wherein only partial information of each marginal is available, which is a setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler , Andreas Jakobsson , Johan Karlsson

Entropic regularization provides a generalization of the original optimal transport problem. It introduces a penalty term defined by the Kullback-Leibler divergence, making the problem more tractable via the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

This paper is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

Optimal transport (OT) naturally arises in a wide range of machine learning applications but may often become the computational bottleneck. Recently, one line of works propose to solve OT approximately by searching the \emph{transport plan}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Weijie Liu , Chao Zhang , Nenggan Zheng , Hui Qian

The basic problem of optimal transportation consists in minimizing the expected costs $\mathbb {E}[c(X_1,X_2)]$ by varying the joint distribution $(X_1,X_2)$ where the marginal distributions of the random variables $X_1$ and $X_2$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Nicolas Juillet

This paper treats the problem of minimizing a general continuously differentiable function subject to sparsity constraints. We present and analyze several different optimality criteria which are based on the notions of stationarity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Amir Beck , Yonina C. Eldar

We characterize the solution to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem by a well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). Our approach works for discrete marginals and general cost functions, and in addition to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew , Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

This paper shows that the semi-dual formulation of the optimal transport problem has a degenerate saddle-point structure, and that its numerical solution is equivalent to solving a constrained optimization problem. We derive necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Anton Selitskiy , David Millard

We present an adaptation of the MA-LBR scheme to the Monge-Amp{\`e}re equation with second boundary value condition, provided the target is a convex set. This yields a fast adaptive method to numerically solve the Optimal Transport problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Jean-David Benamou , Vincent Duval

We analyze continuous optimal transport problems in the so-called Kantorovich form, where we seek a transport plan between two marginals that are probability measures on compact subsets of Euclidean space. We consider the case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Christian Clason , Dirk A. Lorenz , Hinrich Mahler , Benedikt Wirth

Let $M,N$ be two smooth compact hypersurfaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$ which bound strictly convex domains equipped with two absolutely continuous measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ (with respect to the volume measures of $M$ and $N$). We consider the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Emmanuel Humbert , Luc Molinet

We consider weak optimal problems (possibly entropically penalized) incorporating both soft and hard (including the case of the martingale condition) moment constraints. Even in the special case of the martingale optimal transport problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Guillaume Carlier , Hugo Malamut , Maxime Sylvestre

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

It is well known that optimal transport suffers from the curse of dimensionality: when the prescribed marginals are approximated by i.i.d. samples, the convergence of the empirical optimal transport problem to the population counterpart…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Alberto González-Sanz , Eustasio del Barrio , Marcel Nutz

We study Sinkhorn's algorithm for solving the entropically regularized optimal transport problem. Its iterate $\pi_{t}$ is shown to satisfy $H(\pi_{t}|\pi_{*})+H(\pi_{*}|\pi_{t})=O(t^{-1})$ where $H$ denotes relative entropy and $\pi_{*}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

The aim of this short note is to extend the recent variational proof of partial regularity for optimal transport maps to the case of continuous densities.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Michael Goldman

In this paper we develop a boundary $\varepsilon$-regularity theory for optimal transport maps between bounded open sets with $C^{1,\alpha}$-boundary. Our main result asserts sharp $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity of transport maps at the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Tatsuya Miura , Felix Otto