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We introduce and analyze a statistical estimator for Monge transport maps: solutions to the quadratic optimal transport problem in Euclidean space. For absolutely continuous source measures, this map is uniquely defined as the gradient of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels , Léo Portales

In this note, we study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the transport equation in the BMO space and certain Triebel-Lizorkin spaces.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Albert Clop , Renjin Jiang , Joan Mateu , Joan Orobitg

Mixture models are widely used in Bayesian statistics and machine learning, in particular in computational biology, natural language processing and many other fields. Variational inference, a technique for approximating intractable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif , Pierre Alquier

Brenier's theorem is a cornerstone of optimal transport that guarantees the existence of an optimal transport map $T$ between two probability distributions $P$ and $Q$ over $\mathbb{R}^d$ under certain regularity conditions. The main goal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jan-Christian Hütter , Philippe Rigollet

We consider transport of a passive scalar advected by an irregular divergence free vector field. Given any non-constant initial data $\bar \rho \in H^1_\text{loc}({\mathbb R}^d)$, $d\geq 2$, we construct a divergence free advecting velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Gianluca Crippa , Tarek Elgindi , Gautam Iyer , Anna L. Mazzucato

We present an optimal mass transport framework on the space of Gaussian mixture models, which are widely used in statistical inference. Our method leads to a natural way to compare, interpolate and average Gaussian mixture models.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

The field theoretic renormalization group and the operator product expansion are applied to the stochastic model of a passively advected vector field. The advecting velocity field is generated by the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-22 Nikolay V. Antonov , Nikolay M. Gulitskiy , Maria M. Kostenko , Tomáš Lučivjanský

The quadratically regularized optimal transport problem is empirically known to have sparse solutions: its optimal coupling $\pi_{\varepsilon}$ has sparse support for small regularization parameter $\varepsilon$, in contrast to entropic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz

In this paper we characterize the mixing properties in the advection of passive tracers by exploiting the extreme value theory for dynamical systems. With respect to classical techniques directly related to the Poincar\'e recurrences…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-07 Davide Faranda , Xavier Leoncini , Sandro Vaienti

The aim of this paper is to obtain quantitative bounds for solutions to the optimal matching problem in dimension two. These bounds show that up to a logarithmically divergent shift, the optimal transport maps are close to be the identity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Michael Goldman , Martin Huesmann , Felix Otto

We prove that for bounded, divergence-free vector fields in $L^1_{loc}((0,+\infty);BV_{loc}(R^d;R^d))$, regularisation by convolution of the vector field selects a single solution of the transport equation for any integrable initial datum.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Jules Pitcho

The reverse perturbation method [Phys. Rev. E 59, 4894 (1999)] for shearing simple liquids and measuring their viscosity is extended to the Vicsek-model (VM) of active particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226 (1995)] and its metric-free…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-23 Arash Nikoubashman , Thomas Ihle

In the present work, we establish space Bounded Variation $(BV)$ regularity of the solution for a non-linear parabolic partial differential equations involving a linear drift term. We study the problem in a bounded domain with mixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 El Mahdi Erraji , Noureddine Igbida , Fahd Karami , Driss Meskine

We investigate the 1D version of the notable Bressan's mixing conjecture, and introduce various formulation in the classical optimal transport setting, the branched optimal transport setting and a combinatorial optimization. In the discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Bohan Zhou

Detailed calculations of the transport coefficients of a recently introduced particle-based model for fluid dynamics with a non-ideal equation of state are presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-06 Thomas Ihle

The calculation of transport profiles from experimental measurements belongs in the category of inverse problems which are known to come with issues of ill-conditioning or singularity. A reformulation of the calculation, the matricial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 D. F. Escande , F. Sattin

We consider minimizing a sum of agent-specific nondifferentiable merely convex functions over the solution set of a variational inequality (VI) problem in that each agent is associated with a local monotone mapping. This problem finds an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Harshal D. Kaushik , Sepideh Samadi , Farzad Yousefian

We develop a non-parametric, semimartingale optimal transport, calibration methodology for local volatility models with stochastic interest rate. The method finds a fully calibrated model which is the closest, in a way that can be defined…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-08 Benjamin Joseph , Gregoire Loeper , Jan Obloj

We present a new numerical method for transporting arbitrary sets in a velocity field. The method computes a deformation mapping of the domain and advects particular sets by function composition with the map. This also allows for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Olivier Mercier , Xi-Yuan Yin , Jean-Christophe Nave

We study the quadratically regularized optimal transport (QOT) problem for quadratic cost and compactly supported marginals $\mu$ and $\nu$. It has been empirically observed that the optimal coupling $\pi_\epsilon$ for the QOT problem has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Johannes Wiesel , Xingyu Xu