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We propose a variational scheme for computing Wasserstein gradient flows. The scheme builds upon the Jordan--Kinderlehrer--Otto framework with the Benamou-Brenier's dynamic formulation of the quadratic Wasserstein metric and adds a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Wuchen Li , Jianfeng Lu , Li Wang

We study the optimal transport problem for $d>2$ discrete measures. This is a linear programming problem on $d$-tensors. It gives a way to compute a "distance" between two sets of discrete measures. We introduce an entropic regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shmuel Friedland

This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

The Wasserstein gradient flow structure of the PDE system governing multiphase flows in porous media was recently highlighted in [C. Canc\`es, T. O. Gallou\"et, and L. Monsaingeon, {\it Anal. PDE} 10(8):1845--1876, 2017]. The model can thus…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Clément Cancès , Thomas O. Gallouët , Maxime Laborde , Léonard Monsaingeon

We study stability of optimizers and convergence of Sinkhorn's algorithm for the entropic optimal transport problem. In the special case of the quadratic cost, our stability bounds imply that if one of the two entropic potentials is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Alberto Chiarini , Giovanni Conforti , Giacomo Greco , Luca Tamanini

In this work, we present numerical analysis for a distributed optimal control problem, with box constraint on the control, governed by a subdiffusion equation which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

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 study an entropic optimal transport problem in which the transport plan is penalized by a nonlinear convex functional acting on the coupling. We establish existence, uniqueness, and uniform a priori bounds for minimizers, and we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaozhen Wang , Yufei Zhang

We consider an optimal transport problem on the unit simplex whose solutions are given by gradients of exponentially concave functions and prove two main results. First, we show that the optimal transport is the large deviation limit of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Soumik Pal , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

We consider the fundamental problem of sampling the optimal transport coupling between given source and target distributions. In certain cases, the optimal transport plan takes the form of a one-to-one mapping from the source support to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mara Daniels , Tyler Maunu , Paul Hand

Vector-quantized networks (VQNs) have exhibited remarkable performance across various tasks, yet they are prone to training instability, which complicates the training process due to the necessity for techniques such as subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Borui Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

This note develops easily applicable techniques that improve the convergence and reduce the computational time of indirect low thrust trajectory optimization when solving fuel- and time-optimal problems. For solving fuel optimal (FO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Minduli C. Wijayatunga , Roberto Armellin , Laura Pirovano

Optimal transport is an important tool in machine learning, allowing to capture geometric properties of the data through a linear program on transport polytopes. We present a single-loop optimization algorithm for minimizing general convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marin Ballu , Quentin Berthet

The current best practice for computing optimal transport (OT) is via entropy regularization and Sinkhorn iterations. This algorithm runs in quadratic time as it requires the full pairwise cost matrix, which is prohibitively expensive for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Johannes Gasteiger , Marten Lienen , Stephan Günnemann

This contribution presents substantial computational advancements to compare measures even with varying masses. Specifically, we utilize the nonequispaced fast Fourier transform to accelerate the radial kernel convolution in unbalanced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler

We study distributionally robust optimization with Sinkhorn distance -- a variant of Wasserstein distance based on entropic regularization. We derive a convex programming dual reformulation for general nominal distributions, transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

This paper presents a novel learning-based trajectory planning framework for quadrotors that combines model-based optimization techniques with deep learning. Specifically, we formulate the trajectory optimization problem as a quadratic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yuwei Wu , Xiatao Sun , Igor Spasojevic , Vijay Kumar

In this work, we use the JKO scheme to approximate a general class of diffusion problems generated by Darcy's law. Although the scheme is now classical, if the energy density is spatially inhomogeneous or irregular, many standard methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Matt Jacobs , Inwon Kim , Jiajun Tong

We show that the derivatives of the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm, or iterative proportional fitting procedure, converge towards the derivatives of the entropic regularization of the optimal transport problem with a locally uniform linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

In this article we set up a splitting variant of the JKO scheme in order to handle gradient flows with respect to the Kantorovich-Fisher-Rao metric, recently introduced and defined on the space of positive Radon measure with varying masses.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Thomas Gallouët , Léonard Monsaingeon