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Many numerical and learning algorithms rely on the solution of the Monge-Kantorovich problem and Wasserstein distances, which provide appropriate distributional metrics. While the natural approach is to treat the problem as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mohsen Sadr , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Hossein Gorji

We establish that solving an optimal transportation problem in which the source and target densities are defined on manifolds with different dimensions, is equivalent to solving a new nonlocal analog of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Robert J McCann , Brendan Pass

We consider two different variational models of transport networks, the so-called branched transport problem and the urban planning problem. Based on a novel relation to Mumford-Shah image inpainting and techniques developed in that field,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Alessio Brancolini , Carolin Rossmanith , Benedikt Wirth

We present a deep generative model, named Monge-Amp\`ere flow, which builds on continuous-time gradient flow arising from the Monge-Amp\`ere equation in optimal transport theory. The generative map from the latent space to the data space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Linfeng Zhang , Weinan E , Lei Wang

We study the most common image and informal description of the optimal transport problem for quadratic cost, also known as the second boundary value problem for the Monge--Amp\`{e}re equation -- What is the most efficient way to fill a hole…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Yash Jhaveri , Ovidiu Savin

An equation of Monge-Amp\`ere type has, for the first time, been solved numerically on the surface of the sphere in order to generate optimally transported (OT) meshes, equidistributed with respect to a monitor function. Optimal transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Hilary Weller , Philip Browne , Chris Budd , Mike Cullen

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

This paper presents a widely applicable approach to solving (multi-marginal, martingale) optimal transport and related problems via neural networks. The core idea is to penalize the optimization problem in its dual formulation and reduce it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Stephan Eckstein , Michael Kupper

In moving mesh methods, the underlying mesh is dynamically adapted without changing the connectivity of the mesh. We specifically consider the generation of meshes which are adapted to a scalar monitor function through equidistribution.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Andrew T. T. McRae , Colin J. Cotter , Chris J. Budd

This article studies problems of optimal transport, by embedding them in a general functional analytic framework of convex optimization. This provides a unified treatment of a large class of related problems in probability theory and allows…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Teemu Pennanen , Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

Repeatedly solving the parameterized optimal mass transport (pOMT) problem is a frequent task in applications such as image registration and adaptive grid generation. It is thus critical to develop a highly efficient reduced solver that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Shijin Hou , Yanlai Chen , Yinhua Xia

We construct solutions to Monge-Amp\`ere equations whose Monge-Amp\`ere measures contain singular components supported on low codimensional sets. We also study the regularity of such solutions. To motivate our construction, we present…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Arghya Rakshit , Aranya Sen

Optimal maps, solutions to the optimal transportation problems, are completely determined by the corresponding c-convex potential functions. In this paper, we give simple sufficient conditions for a smooth function to be c-convex when the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Paul W. Y. Lee

We study the estimation of optimal transport (OT) maps between an arbitrary source probability measure and a log-concave target probability measure. Our contributions are twofold. First, we propose a new evolution equation in the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Théo Dumont , Théo Lacombe , François-Xavier Vialard

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

The increasing penetration of renewables in distribution networks calls for faster and more advanced voltage regulation strategies. A promising approach is to formulate the problem as an optimization problem, where the optimal reactive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Yize Chen , Yuanyuan Shi , Baosen Zhang

We consider an optimal transport problem between laws of random probability measures: given a base cost function, we build the associated OT cost between probability measures that in turn we use to define the OT cost between probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Alessandro Pinzi

We consider the problem to transport resources/mass while abiding by constraints on the flow through constrictions along their path between specified terminal distributions. Constrictions, conceptualized as toll stations at specified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Anqi Dong , Arthur Stephanovitch , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We propose a numerical method to find the optimal transport map between a measure supported on a lower-dimensional subset of R^d and a finitely supported measure. More precisely, the source measure is assumed to be supported on a simplex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Quentin Mérigot , Jocelyn Meyron , Boris Thibert

We present a general convex relaxation approach to study a wide class of Unbalanced Optimal Transport problems for finite non-negative measures with possibly different masses. These are obtained as the lower semicontinuous and convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Giuseppe Savaré , Giacomo Enrico Sodini