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We establish a variant of Monge--Kantorovich duality for a constrained optimal transport problem with a continuum of agents, a finite set of alternatives, and general linear constraints. As an application, we revisit the large-market model…

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We combine the power flow model with the proportionally fair optimization criterion to study the control of congestion within a distribution electric grid network. The form of the mathematical optimization problem is a convex second order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Miroslav Gardlo , Ľuboš Buzna , Rui Carvalho , Richard Gibbens , Frank Kelly

This paper introduces the Packing While Traveling problem as a new non-linear knapsack problem. Given are a set of cities that have a set of items of distinct profits and weights and a vehicle that may collect the items when visiting all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Sergey Polyakovskiy , Frank Neumann

This paper presents a mixed traffic control policy designed to optimize traffic efficiency across diverse road topologies, addressing issues of congestion prevalent in urban environments. A model-free reinforcement learning (RL) approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Chuyang Xiao , Dawei Wang , Xinzheng Tang , Jia Pan , Yuexin Ma

The transition to Electric Vehicles (EVs) demands intelligent, congestion-aware infrastructure planning to balance user convenience, economic viability, and traffic efficiency. We present a joint optimisation framework for EV Charging…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Niloofar Aminikalibar , Farzaneh Farhadi , Maria Chli

We study the problem of planning routes in road networks when certain streets or areas are closed at certain times. For heavy vehicles, such areas may be very large since many European countries impose temporary driving bans during the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Alexander Kleff , Frank Schulz , Jakob Wagenblatt , Tim Zeitz

Congestion pricing has emerged as an effective tool for mitigating traffic congestion, yet implementing welfare or revenue-optimal dynamic tolls is often impractical. Most real-world congestion pricing deployments, including New York City's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Devansh Jalota , Xuan Di , Adam N. Elmachtoub

Traffic congestion has long been an ubiquitous problem that is exacerbating with the rapid growth of megacities. In this proof-of-concept work we study intrinsic motivation, implemented via the empowerment principle, to control autonomous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-20 Himaja Papala , Daniel Polani , Stas Tiomkin

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

Toll optimization in a large-scale dynamic traffic network is typically characterized by an expensive-to-evaluate objective function. In this paper, we propose two toll level problems (TLPs) integrated with a large-scale simulation-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Ziyuan Gu , S. Travis Waller , Meead Saberi

This article addresses the issue of computing the expected cost functions from a probabilistic model of the air traffic flow and capacity management. The Clenshaw-Curtis quadrature is compared to Monte-Carlo algorithms defined specifically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Gaétan Marceau , Pierre Savéant , Marc Schoenauer

In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method to address the high-dimensional dynamic unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. Dynamic UOT focuses on the optimal transportation between two densities with unequal total mass,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Wei Wan , Jiangong Pan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

We consider the problem of optimal exchange which can be formulated as a kind of optimal transportation problem. The existence of an optimal solution and a duality theorem for the optimal exchange problem are proved in case of completely…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Alexander Kolesnikov , Svetlana Popova

In this paper, we formulate the problem of inferring a Finite Mixture Model from discrete data as an optimal transport problem with entropic regularization of parameter $\lambda\geq 0$. Our method unifies hard and soft clustering, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Jean-Frédéric Diebold , Nicolas Papadakis , Arnaud Dessein , Charles-Alban Deledalle

We construct an efficient numerical scheme for solving obstacle problems in divergence form. The numerical method is based on a reformulation of the obstacle in terms of an L1-like penalty on the variational problem. The reformulation is an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Giang Tran , Hayden Schaeffer , William M. Feldman , Stanley J. Osher

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport has attracted growing interests in scientific computing and machine learning, and its computation requires to solve a PDE-constrained optimization problem. The classical Eulerian discretization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei Wan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Bin Dong , Zuoqiang Shi

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

Traffic congestion is one of the most notable problems arising in worldwide urban areas, importantly compromising human mobility and air quality. Current technologies to sense real-time data about cities, and its open distribution for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-30 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

Given facilities with capacities and clients with penalties and demands, the transportation problem with market choice consists in finding the minimum-cost way to partition the clients into unserved clients, paying the penalties, and into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Karen Aardal , Pierre Le Bodic

When selfish users share a road network and minimize their individual travel costs, the equilibrium they reach can be worse than the socially optimal routing. Tolls are often used to mitigate this effect in traditional congestion games,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Daniel A. Lazar , Ramtin Pedarsani