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We study the Wasserstein gradient flow of semi-discrete energies in the space of probability measures, that is functionals depending on two measures-one being an absolutely continuous density and the other an atomic measure. These energies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Joao Miguel Machado

We study a class of optimization problems in the Wasserstein space (the space of probability measures) where the objective function is nonconvex along generalized geodesics. Specifically, the objective exhibits some difference-of-convex…

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We introduce a non-quadratic generalization of the quantum mechanical optimal transport problem introduced in [De Palma and Trevisan, Ann. Henri Poincar\'e, {\bf 22} (2021), 3199-3234] where quantum channels realize the transport. Relying…

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It has been shown beneficial for many types of data which present an underlying hierarchical structure to be embedded in hyperbolic spaces. Consequently, many tools of machine learning were extended to such spaces, but only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Clément Bonet , Laetitia Chapel , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

Optimal Transport (OT) metrics allow for defining discrepancies between two probability measures. Wasserstein distance is for longer the celebrated OT-distance frequently-used in the literature, which seeks probability distributions to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Gilles Gasso , Maxime Berar , Alain Rakotomamonjy

Wasserstein distance, especially among symmetric positive-definite matrices, has broad and deep influences on development of artificial intelligence (AI) and other branches of computer science. A natural idea is to describe the geometry of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Yihao Luo , Shiqiang Zhang , Yueqi Cao , Huafei Sun

We introduce a version of Stein's method of comparison of operators specifically tailored to the problem of bounding the Wasserstein-1 distance between continuous and discrete distributions on the real line. Our approach rests on a new…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Gilles Germain , Yvik Swan

We provide a complete derivation of hydrodynamic equations for nonrelativistic systems based on quantum field theories of spinless Schr\"odeinger fields, assuming that an initial density operator takes a special form of the local Gibbs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-07 Masaru Hongo

Optimal transport has gained much attention in image processing field, such as computer vision, image interpolation and medical image registration. Recently, Bredies et al. (ESAIM:M2AN 54:2351-2382, 2020) and Schmitzer et al. (IEEE T MED…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Yiming Gao

We investigate proximal descent methods, inspired by the minimizing movement scheme introduced by Jordan, Kinderlehrer and Otto, for optimizing entropy-regularized functionals on the Wasserstein space. We establish linear convergence under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Razvan-Andrei Lascu , Mateusz B. Majka , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch

We study the Wasserstein projection of a compactly supported probability measure onto the class of measures whose density ratio is bounded, and we place this projection in a broader program connecting generative modeling, optimal transport,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Hy P. G. Lam

We propose a variational model with diffeomorphic optimal transportation for joint image reconstruction and motion estimation. The proposed model is a production of assembling the Wasserstein distance with the Benamou--Brenier formula in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Chong Chen

We consider the geometry of the space of Borel measures endowed with a distance that is defined by generalizing the dynamical formulation of the Wasserstein distance to concave, nonlinear mobilities. We investigate the energy landscape of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-27 José Antonio Carrillo , Stefano Lisini , Giuseppe Savaré , Dejan Slepčev

We prove the existence of semi-infinite geodesics for Brownian last-passage percolation (BLPP). Specifically, on a single event of probability one, there exist semi-infinite geodesics started from every space-time point and traveling in…

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This paper establishes the quantitative stability of invariant measures $\mu_{\alpha}$ for $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued ergodic stochastic differential equations driven by rotationally invariant multiplicative $\alpha$-stable processes with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Xinghu Jin , Xiaolong Zhang

We apply differential geometry methods to the computation of the anomaly-induced hydrodynamic equilibrium partition function. Implementing the imaginary-time prescription on the Chern-Simons effective action on a stationary background, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Juan L. Mañes , Eugenio Megias , Manuel Valle , Miguel A. Vazquez-Mozo

We study Fokker--Planck equations with symmetric, positive definite mobility matrices capturing diffusion in heterogeneous environments. A weighted Wasserstein metric is introduced for which these equations are gradient flows. This metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Hailiang Liu , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We show how one can obtain a class of quadratic Wasserstein metrics, that is to say, Wasserstein metrics of order 2, on the set of faithful normal states of a von Neumann algebra $A$, via transport plans, rather than through a dynamical…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Rocco Duvenhage

We prove the existence of solutions to a non-linear, non-local, degenerate equation which was previously derived as the formal hydrodynamic limit of an active Brownian particle system, where the particles are endowed with a position and an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Martin Burger , Simon Schulz