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We study the least-energy way to reshape a probability distribution when motion is constrained to a horizontal bundle, that is, optimal transport and distribution steering in sub-Riemannian geometry, motivated by density control over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Daniel Owusu Adu , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Bahman Gharesifard

We establish novel quantitative stability results for optimal transport problems with respect to perturbations in the target measure. We provide explicit bounds on the stability of optimal transport potentials and maps, which are relevant…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Octave Mischler , Dario Trevisan

We consider polynomial Bergman kernels with respect to exponentially varying weights $e^{-n \mathscr Q(z)}$ depending on a potential $\mathscr Q:\mathbb C^d\to\mathbb R$. We use these kernels to construct determinantal point processes on…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 L. D. Molag

Regularization by the Shannon entropy enables us to efficiently and approximately solve optimal transport problems on a finite set. This paper is concerned with regularized optimal transport problems via Bregman divergence. We introduce the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Keiichi Morikuni , Koya Sakakibara , Asuka Takatsu

Practical applications of kernel methods often use variable bandwidth kernels, also known as self-tuning kernels, however much of the current theory of kernel based techniques is only applicable to fixed bandwidth kernels. In this paper, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tyrus Berry , John Harlim

This paper studies data-driven distributionally robust bottleneck combinatorial problems (DRBCP) with stochastic costs, where the probability distribution of the cost vector is contained in a ball of distributions centered at the empirical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Weijun Xie , Jie Zhang , Shabbir Ahmed

In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) offer a powerful approach to modeling diversity in many applications where the goal is to select a diverse subset. We study the problem of learning the parameters (the kernel matrix) of a DPP from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-10 Boqing Gong , Wei-lun Chao , Kristen Grauman , Fei Sha

Optimal transport has emerged as a fundamental methodology with applications spanning multiple research areas in recent years. However, the convergence rate of the empirical estimator to its population counterpart suffers from the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

A new type of dependent thinning for point processes in continuous space is proposed, which leverages the advantages of determinantal point processes defined on finite spaces and, as such, is particularly amenable to statistical, numerical,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Bartłomiej Błaszczyszyn , Paul Keeler

Optimal transport provides an inherently geometric and highly structured framework for studying spaces of probability measures, supplying a rich theoretical toolkit for contemporary statistics, machine learning, and generative modelling. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Riccardo Passeggeri , Rohan M. Shenoy , Pengcheng Ye

We propose a fast algorithm for the calculation of the Wasserstein-1 distance, which is a particular type of optimal transport distance with homogeneous of degree one transport cost. Our algorithm is built on multilevel primal-dual…

Computation · Statistics 2019-08-06 Jialin Liu , Wotao Yin , Wuchen Li , Yat Tin Chow

The Ginibre point process is one of the main examples of deter- minantal point processes on the complex plane. It forms a recurring model in stochastic matrix theory as well as in pratical applications. However, this model has mostly been…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Laurent Decreusefond , Ian Flint , Anaïs Vergne

We study optimal payoff choice for an expected utility maximizer under the constraint that their payoff is not allowed to deviate ``too much'' from a given benchmark. We solve this problem when the deviation is assessed via a…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-19 Silvana M. Pesenti , Steven Vanduffel , Yang Yang , Jing Yao

Optimization problems with stochastic dominance constraints provide a possibility to shape risk by selecting a benchmark random outcome with a desired distribution. The comparison of the relevant random outcomes to the respective benchmarks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Darinka Dentcheva , Yunxuan Yi

We tackle the data-driven chance-constrained density steering problem using the Gromov-Wasserstein metric. The underlying dynamical system is an unknown linear controlled recursion, with the assumption that sufficiently rich input-output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

We study a nonlinear multimarginal optimal transport problem arising in risk management, where the objective is to maximize a spectral risk measure of the pushforward of a coupling by a cost function. Although this problem is inherently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Adrien Cances , Quentin Mérigot , Luca Nenna

The optimal transport problem seeks to minimize the total transportation cost between two distributions, thus providing a measure of distance between them. In this work, we study the optimal transport of the eigenspectrum of one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Mingtao Xu , Zongping Gong , Wei Yi

We consider the conjecture proposed in Matsumoto, Zhang and Schiebinger (2022) suggesting that optimal transport with quadratic regularisation can be used to construct a graph whose discrete Laplace operator converges to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Gilles Mordant , Stephen Zhang

Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher