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This article details a general numerical framework to approximate so-lutions to linear programs related to optimal transport. The general idea is to introduce an entropic regularization of the initial linear program. This regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Marco Cuturi , Luca Nenna , Gabriel Peyré

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

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

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

Monge--Amp\`ere equation plays an important part in Analysis. For example, it is instrumental in mass transport problems. On the other hand, the Bellman function technique appeared recently as a way to consider certain Harmonic Analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-03-26 Vasily Vasyunin , Alexander Volberg

We study multi-marginal optimal transport problems from a probabilistic graphical model perspective. We point out an elegant connection between the two when the underlying cost for optimal transport allows a graph structure. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Isabel Haasler , Rahul Singh , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

We consider a minimax problem motivated by distributionally robust optimization (DRO) when the worst-case distribution is continuous, leading to significant computational challenges due to the infinite-dimensional nature of the optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-31 Linglingzhi Zhu , Yao Xie

The optimal transport problem studies how to transport one measure to another in the most cost-effective way and has wide range of applications from economics to machine learning. In this paper, we introduce and study an information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yikun Bai , Xiugang Wu , Ayfer Ozgur

These notes constitute a sort of Crash Course in Optimal Transport Theory. The different features of the problem of Monge-Kantorovitch are treated, starting from convex duality issues. The main properties of space of probability measures…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Filippo Santambrogio

It is well-known that the optimal transport problem on the real line for the classical distance cost may not have a unique solution. In this paper we recover uniqueness by considering the transport problems where the costs are a power…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Nicolas Juillet

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yukuan Hu , Huajie Chen , Xin Liu

By investigating model-independent bounds for exotic options in financial mathematics, a martingale version of the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem was introduced in \cite{BeiglbockHenry…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-10 Pierre Henry-Labordere , Nizar Touzi

Optimal transport (OT) has gained popularity due to its various applications in fields such as machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. However, the balanced mass requirement limits its performance in practical problems. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yikun Bai , Ivan Medri , Rocio Diaz Martin , Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Soheil Kolouri

This paper is concerned with the existence of globally smooth solutions for the second boundary value problem for Monge-Ampere equations and the application to regularity of potentials in optimal transportation. The cost functions satisfy a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Neil S Trudinger , Xu-jia Wang

We investigate the problem of pairwise multi-marginal optimal transport, that is, given a collection of probability distributions $\{P_\alpha\}$ on a Polish space $\mathcal{X}$, to find a coupling $\{X_\alpha\}$, $X_\alpha\sim P_\alpha$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Cheuk Ting Li , Venkat Anantharam

This work introduces novel computational methods for entropic optimal transport (OT) problems under martingale-type conditions. The considered problems include the discrete martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem. Moreover, as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xun Tang , Michael Shavlovsky , Holakou Rahmanian , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

We propose a discrete time formulation of the semi-martingale optimal transport problem based on multi-marginal entropic transport. This approach offers a new way to formulate and solve numerically the calibration problem proposed by [17],…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Grégoire Loeper

We describe a new MCMC method optimized for the sampling of probability measures on Hilbert space which have a density with respect to a Gaussian; such measures arise in the Bayesian approach to inverse problems, and in conditioned…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-04 Michela Ottobre , Natesh S. Pillai , Frank J. Pinski , Andrew M. Stuart

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…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-06 Koji Yokote

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