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Many optimization problems can be naturally represented as (hyper) graphs, where vertices correspond to variables and edges to tasks, whose cost depends on the values of the adjacent variables. Capitalizing on the structure of the graph,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Nicklas Hoch , Ugo Montanari , Matteo Sammartino

We propose a protocol optimization technique that is applicable to both weighted or unweighted graphs. Our aim is to explore by how much a small variation around the Shortest Path or Optimal Path protocols can enhance protocol performance.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Jose J. Ramasco , Marta S. de la Lama , Eduardo Lopez , Stefan Boettcher

We provide new results on the structure of optimal transportation networks obtained as minimizers of an energy cost functional consisting of a kinetic (pumping) and material (metabolic) cost terms, constrained by a local mass conservation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Jan Haskovec , Jan Vybiral

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

We study the replacement paths problem in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model of distributed computing. Given an $s$-$t$ shortest path $P$, the goal is to compute, for every edge $e$ in $P$, the shortest-path distance from $s$ to $t$ avoiding $e$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yi-Jun Chang , Yanyu Chen , Dipan Dey , Gopinath Mishra , Hung Thuan Nguyen , Bryce Sanchez

In this paper, we introduce a new model for sublinear algorithms called \emph{dynamic sketching}. In this model, the underlying data is partitioned into a large \emph{static} part and a small \emph{dynamic} part and the goal is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li , Val Tannen

Understanding the complex patterns in space-time exhibited by active systems has been the subject of much interest in recent times. Complementing this forward problem is the inverse problem of controlling active matter. Here we use optimal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Suraj Shankar , Vidya Raju , L. Mahadevan

We introduce a novel model based on the discrete optimal transport problem that incorporates congestion costs and replaces traditional constraints with weighted penalization terms. This approach better captures real-world scenarios…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Marcelo Gallardo , Manuel Loaiza , Jorge Chávez

We introduce a new graph problem, the token dropping game, and we show how to solve it efficiently in a distributed setting. We use the token dropping game as a tool to design an efficient distributed algorithm for stable orientations and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sebastian Brandt , Barbara Keller , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

This paper discusses a graph based route solving algorithm to find the optimal path for an electric vehicle picking the best charging locations among thousands to minimize the total cumulative driving distance between the end points of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 B. Kaan Karamete , Eli Glaser

We study the urban-scale macroscopic traffic flow in city networks. Star graph is considered as traffic network. Star graphs with controlled traffic flow are transformed to various cell-transmission graphs by using the cell transmission…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-10 Takashi Nagatani

We analyze several problems of Optimal Transport Theory in the setting of Ergodic Theory. In a certain class of problems we consider questions in Ergodic Transport which are generalizations of the ones in Ergodic Optimization. Another class…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Artur O. Lopes , Jairo K. Mengue

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of an analogue of the Wasserstein distance for optimal transport on graphs that is defined via a discrete modification of the Benamou--Brenier formula. This approach involves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Matthias Erbar , Martin Rumpf , Bernhard Schmitzer , Stefan Simon

Optimal transport is widely used in pure and applied mathematics to find probabilistic solutions to hard combinatorial matching problems. We extend the Wasserstein metric and other elements of optimal transport from the matching of sets to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Evan Patterson

Entropic regularization provides a generalization of the original optimal transport problem. It introduces a penalty term defined by the Kullback-Leibler divergence, making the problem more tractable via the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

This paper develops a comprehensive theory of optimal transport for signed (real) measures on Rd. Extending the classical Brenier theorem, we consider Jordan decompositions of measures with possibly fractal singular parts. Under suitable…

We present a 2-step optimal transport approach that performs a mapping from a source distribution to a target distribution. Here, the target has the particularity to present new classes not present in the source domain. The first step of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Marwa Kechaou , Romain Hérault , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Gilles Gasso

We show in full generality the stability of optimal traffic paths in branched transport: namely we prove that any limit of optimal traffic paths is optimal as well. This solves an open problem in the field (cf. Open problem 1 in the book…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-25 Maria Colombo , Antonio De Rosa , Andrea Marchese

The Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem involves optimizing with respect to a given a cost function. Uniqueness is a fundamental open question about which little is known when the cost function is smooth and the landscapes containing…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Najma Ahmad , Hwa Kil Kim , Robert J. McCann

We introduce a new variant of the weak optimal transport problem where mass is distributed from one space to the other through unnormalized kernels. We give sufficient conditions for primal attainment and prove a dual formula for this…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Philippe Choné , Nathael Gozlan , Francis Kramarz