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A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

We introduce and analyze a statistical estimator for Monge transport maps: solutions to the quadratic optimal transport problem in Euclidean space. For absolutely continuous source measures, this map is uniquely defined as the gradient of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels , Léo Portales

This chapter describes techniques for the numerical resolution of optimal transport problems. We will consider several discretizations of these problems, and we will put a strong focus on the mathematical analysis of the algorithms to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Quentin Merigot , Boris Thibert

We address the Monge problem in metric spaces with a geodesic distance: (X, d) is a Polish space and dL is a geodesic Borel distance which makes (X,dL) a non branching geodesic space. We show that under the assumption that geodesics are…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Stefano Bianchini , Fabio Cavalletti

This note establishes that a generalization of $c$-cyclical monotonicity from the Monge-Kantorovich problem with two marginals gives rise to a sufficient condition for optimality also in the multi-marginal version of that problem. To obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Claus Griessler

We study the entropic regularizations of optimal transport problems under suitable summability assumptions on the point-wise transport cost. These summability assumptions already appear in the literature. However, we show that the weakest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale , Anna Kausamo

We provide a unifying interpretation of various optimal transport problems as a minimisation of a linear functional over the set of all Choquet representations of a given pair of probability measures ordered with respect to a certain convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

We propose a general framework of mass transport between vector-valued measures, which will be called simultaneous optimal transport (SOT). The new framework is motivated by the need to transport resources of different types simultaneously,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-12-23 Ruodu Wang , Zhenyuan Zhang

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

We propose an extension of the computational fluid mechanics approach to the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem, which was developed by Benamou-Brenier. Our extension allows optimal transfer of unnormalized and unequal masses. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Wilfrid Gangbo , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Michael Puthawala

Let $X$ be a Polish space, $\mathcal{P}(X)$ be the set of Borel probability measures on $X$, and $T\colon X\to X$ be a homeomorphism. We prove that for the simplex $\mathrm{Dom} \subseteq \mathcal{P}(X)$ of all $T$-invariant measures, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Danila Zaev

In this paper, Monge-Kantorovich problem is considered in the infinite dimension on an abstract Wiener space $(W, H,\mu)$, where $H$ is Cameron-Martin space and $\mu$ is the Gaussian measure. We study the regularity of optimal transport…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Mine Caglar , Ihsan Demirel

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

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

We study a random matching problem on closed compact $2$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with respect to the squared Riemannian distance), with samples of random points whose common law is absolutely continuous with respect to the volume…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Nicolas Clozeau , Francesco Mattesini

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem between two measures, one of which is a weighted sum of Diracs. This problem is traditionally solved using expensive geometric methods. It can also be reformulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese

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

We study optimal transportation problems with constraints on densities of transport plans. We obtain a sharp condition for the uniqueness of an optimal solution to the Kantorovich problem with density constraints, namely that the Borel…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Svetlana Popova

The optimal transportation problem, first suggested by Gaspard Monge in the 18th century and later revived in the 1940s by Leonid Kantorovich, deals with the question of transporting a certain measure to another, using transport maps or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Shlomi Gover

Many results in probability (most famously, Strassen's theorem on stochastic domination), characterize some relationship between probability distributions in terms of the existence of a particular structured coupling between them. Optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Adam Quinn Jaffe , Daniel Raban