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Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

We study a simple transport model driven out of equilibrium by reservoirs at the boundaries, corresponding to the hydrodynamic limit of the symmetric simple exclusion process. We show that a nonlocal transformation of densities and currents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-03 Julien Tailleur , Jorge Kurchan , Vivien Lecomte

We study a class of variational problems for regularized conservation laws with Lax's entropy-entropy flux pairs. We first introduce a modified optimal transport space based on conservation laws with diffusion. Using this space, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Wuchen Li , Siting Liu , Stanley Osher

We describe a new method which allows us to obtain a result of exact controllability to trajectories of multidimensional conservation laws in the context of entropy solutions and under a mere non-degeneracy assumption on the flux and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Carlotta Donadello , Vincent Perrollaz

We develop an $\e$-regularity theory at the boundary for a general class of Monge-Amp\`ere type equations arising in optimal transportation. As a corollary we deduce that optimal transport maps between H\"older densities supported on $C^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Shibing Chen , Alessio Figalli

Existing macroscopic traffic control methods often struggle to strictly regulate rare, safety-critical extreme events under stochastic disturbances. In this paper, we develop a rare chance-constrained optimal control framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Rui Xu , Shanyin Tong , Xuan Di

In this paper, we study the local exact boundary controllability of entropy solutions to a class linearly degenerate hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with constant multiplicity. The authors prove the two-sided boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Tatsien Li , Lei Yu

In the setting of a recently developed cellular stochastic traffic flow model, it has shown that the joint per-cell vehicle densities, as a function of time, can be accurately approximated by a Gaussian process, which has the attractive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Michel Mandjes , Jaap Storm

Motivated by the computational difficulties incurred by popular deep learning algorithms for the generative modeling of temporal densities, we propose a cheap alternative which requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and scales favorably to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse , Yunan Yang , Romit Maulik

This paper addresses the problem of steering the distribution of the state of a discrete-time linear system to a given target distribution while minimizing an entropy-regularized cost functional. This problem is called a maximum entropy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

In this paper, we study the concept of approximate controllability of retarded network systems of neutral type. On one hand, we reformulate such systems as free-delay boundary control systems on product spaces. On the other hand, we use the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Yassine El Gantouh , Said Hadd

In this paper an approximation of the set of multivariable and $L_2$ integrable trajectories of the control system described by Urysohn type integral equation is considered. It is assumed that the system is affine with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Nesir Huseyin , Anar Huseyin , Khalik G. Guseinov

Designing continuous trajectories whose time-averaged occupancy provably matches a prescribed spatial density (the \emph{ergodic coverage} problem) is central to UAV-assisted data collection and sensing, robotic exploration, and mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ehsan Aghazadeh , Masoud Malekzadeh , Ahmad Ghasemi , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Scheduling control problems for a family of unitary networks under heavy traffic with general interarrival and service times, probabilistic routing and an infinite horizon discounted linear holding cost are studied. Diffusion control…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Amarjit Budhiraja , Arka P. Ghosh

We investigate traffic routing both from the perspective of theory as well as real world data. First, we introduce a new type of games: $\theta$-free flow games. Here, commuters only consider, in their strategy sets, paths whose free-flow…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Francisco Benita , Vittorio Bilò , Barnabé Monnot , Georgios Piliouras , Cosimo Vinci

Motivated by applications in conditional sampling, given a probability measure $\mu$ and a diffeomorphism $\phi$, we consider the problem of simultaneously approximating $\phi$ and the pushforward $\phi_{\#}\mu$ by means of the flow of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Borjan Geshkovski , Domènec Ruiz-Balet

This paper focuses on the optimal control of weak (i.e. in general non smooth) solutions to the continuity equation with non local flow. Our driving examples are a supply chain model and an equation for the description of pedestrian flows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Michael Herty , Magali Mercier

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

Estimating the reachable set of a dynamical system is a fundamental problem in control theory, particularly when control inputs are bounded. Direct simulation using randomly sampled admissible controls often leads to trajectories that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Sachin Shivakumar

In this work, we study the minimal time to steer a given crowd to a desired configuration. The control is a vector field, representing a perturbation of the crowd velocity, localized on a fixed control set. We will assume that there is no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Michel Duprez , Morgan Morancey , Francesco Rossi