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The optimal transport (OT) problem has gained significant traction in modern machine learning for its ability to: (1) provide versatile metrics, such as Wasserstein distances and their variants, and (2) determine optimal couplings between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinran Liu , Rocío Díaz Martín , Yikun Bai , Ashkan Shahbazi , Matthew Thorpe , Akram Aldroubi , Soheil Kolouri

In this paper, we propose image restoration models using optimal transport (OT) and total variation regularization. We present theoretical results of the proposed models based on the relations between the dual Lipschitz norm from OT and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Weijia Huang , Zhongyi Huang , Wenli Yang , Wei Zhu

The paper outlines novel variational technique for finding microstructures of optimal multimaterial composites, bounds of composites properties, and multimaterial optimal designs. The translation method that is used for the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Andrej Cherkaev

Grogan et al [11,12] have recently proposed a solution to colour transfer by minimising the Euclidean distance L2 between two probability density functions capturing the colour distributions of two images (palette and target). It was shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Rozenn Dahyot , Hana Alghamdi , Mairead Grogan

We consider optimal design of infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by partial differential equations that contain secondary reducible model uncertainties, in addition to the uncertainty in the inversion parameters.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Alen Alexanderian , Noemi Petra , Georg Stadler , Isaac Sunseri

The branching geometry of biological transport networks is characterized by a diameter scaling exponent $\alpha$. Two structural attractors compete: impedance matching ($\alpha \sim 2$) for pulsatile flow and viscous-metabolic minimization…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Riccardo Marchesi

5G vehicular communication is one of key enablers in next generation intelligent transportation system (ITS), that require ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC). To meet this requirement, a new hybrid vehicular network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Shikuan Li , Zipeng Li , Xiaohu Ge , Yonghui Li

The duality between the robust (or equivalently, model independent) hedging of path dependent European options and a martingale optimal transport problem is proved. The financial market is modeled through a risky asset whose price is only…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Yan Dolinsky , H. Mete Soner

Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

We use the randomization idea and proof techniques from optimal transport to study optimal reinsurance problems. We start by providing conditions for a class of problems that allow us to characterize the support of optimal treaties, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Beatrice Acciaio , Hansjörg Albrecher , Brandon García Flores

It is nowadays widely acknowledged that optimal structural design should be robust with respect to the uncertainties in loads and material parameters. However, there are several alternatives to consider such uncertainties in structural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Gustavo Assis da Silva , Eduardo Lenz Cardoso , Andre T. Beck

We study optimal transport-based distributionally robust optimization problems where a fictitious adversary, often envisioned as nature, can choose the distribution of the uncertain problem parameters by reshaping a prescribed reference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Soroosh Shafiee , Liviu Aolaritei , Florian Dörfler , Daniel Kuhn

This study provides a foundational theoretical investigation into the mathematical existence and asymptotic properties of Ulanowicz's structural resilience. While ecological evidence suggests that sustainable systems gravitate toward an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-22 Si-Yao Wei , Wei-Xing Zhou

In this work, we consider optimal control problems for mechanical systems on vector spaces with fixed initial and free final state and a quadratic Lagrange term. Specifically, the dynamics is described by a second order ODE containing an…

Distributionally robust optimization tackles out-of-sample issues like overfitting and distribution shifts by adopting an adversarial approach over a range of possible data distributions, known as the ambiguity set. To balance conservatism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ahmad-Reza Ehyaei , Golnoosh Farnadi , Samira Samadi

Recovering the dynamics from a few snapshots of a high-dimensional system is a challenging task in statistical physics and machine learning, with important applications in computational biology. Many algorithms have been developed to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuhao Sun , Zhenyi Zhang , Zihan Wang , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

Transport systems on networks are crucial in various applications, but face a significant risk of being adversely affected by unforeseen circumstances such as disasters. The application of entropy-regularized optimal transport (OT) on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Yota Hashizume , Tomohiko Jimbo , Hirotaka Kaji , Kenji Kashima

In this work, we present a semi-discrete scheme to approximate solutions to the scalar LWR traffic model with spatially discontinuous flux, described by the equation $u_t + (k(x)u(1-u))_x = 0$. This approach is based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Eduardo Abreu , Maria Teresa Chiri , Richard De la cruz , Juan Juajibioy , Wanderson Lambert

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann
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