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We develop a numerical method for the martingale analogue of the Benamou--Brenier optimal transport problem, which seeks a martingale interpolating two prescribed marginals which is closest to the Brownian motion. Recent contributions have…

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We consider cost minimizing stopping time solutions to Skorokhod embedding problems, which deal with transporting a source probability measure to a given target measure through a stopped Brownian process. PDEs and a free boundary problem…

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In this work, we aim at efficiently solving a parametrized family of optimal transport problems by using model order reduction methods. We propose a reduced-order model by adding to the primal (respectively dual) version of the…

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In this note, I review entropy-regularized Monge-Kantorovich problem in Optimal Transport, and derive the gradients of several popular algorithms popular in Computational Optimal Transport, including the Sinkhorn algorithms, Wasserstein…

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The purpose of the present work is to expand substantially the type of control and estimation problems that can be addressed following the paradigm of Schr\"odinger bridges, by incorporating termination (killing) of stochastic flows.…

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We develop a theory for image restoration with a learned regularizer that is analogous to that of Meyer's characterization of solutions of the classical variational method of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF). The learned regularizer we use is a…

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