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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Luisa Arlotti , Bertrand Lods

We propose a new general framework for recovering low-rank structure in optimal transport using Schatten-$p$ norm regularization. Our approach extends existing methods that promote sparse and interpretable transport maps or plans, while…

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We investigate the approximation of Monge--Kantorovich problems on general compact metric spaces, showing that optimal values, plans and maps can be effectively approximated via a fully discrete method. First we approximate optimal values…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Maximiliano Frungillo

We analyze a number of natural estimators for the optimal transport map between two distributions and show that they are minimax optimal. We adopt the plugin approach: our estimators are simply optimal couplings between measures derived…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Tudor Manole , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Larry Wasserman

We consider a Kantorovich potential associated to an optimal transportation problem between measures that are not necessarily absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure, but are comparable to the Lebesgue measure when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Antoine Mellet

We consider an optimal transport problem with backward martingale constraint. The objective function is given by the scalar product of a pseudo-Euclidean space $S$. We show that the supremums over maps and plans coincide, provided that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Dmitry Kramkov , Mihai Sîrbu

Many causal and structural parameters in economics can be identified and estimated by computing the value of an optimization program over all distributions consistent with the model and the data. Existing tools apply when the data is…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-07-31 Andrei Voronin

We prove that, in the optimal transportation problem with general costs and positive continuous densities, the potential function is always of class $W^{2,p}_{loc}$ for any $p \geq 1$ outside of a closed singular set of measure zero. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Shibing Chen , Alessio Figalli

We study stability and sample complexity properties of divergence regularized optimal transport (DOT). First, we obtain quantitative stability results for optimizers of DOT measured in Wasserstein distance, which are applicable to a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Erhan Bayraktar , Stephan Eckstein , Xin Zhang

We present a new proof of the turnpike property for nonlinear optimal control problems, when the running target is a steady control-state pair of the underlying system. Our strategy combines the construction of quasi-turnpike controls via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Borjan Geshkovski , Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

We establish quantitative global stability estimates, formulated in terms of optimal transport (OT) cost, for inverse point-source problems governed by elliptic and parabolic equations with spatially varying coefficients. The key idea is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Lingyun Qiu , Shenwen Yu

Motivated by the manifold hypothesis, which states that data with a high extrinsic dimension may yet have a low intrinsic dimension, we develop refined statistical bounds for entropic optimal transport that are sensitive to the intrinsic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Austin J. Stromme

This paper presents a unified framework for smooth convex regularization of discrete optimal transport problems. In this context, the regularized optimal transport turns out to be equivalent to a matrix nearness problem with respect to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Arnaud Dessein , Nicolas Papadakis , Jean-Luc Rouas

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

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

We consider maps $T$ solving the optimal transport problem with a cost $c(x-y)$ modeled on the $p$-cost. For H\"older continuous marginals, we prove a $C^{1,\alpha}$-partial regularity result for $T $in the set $\{|T(x)-x|>0\}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Michael Goldman , Lukas Koch

This paper studies the uniqueness of solutions to the dual optimal transport problem, both qualitatively and quantitatively (bounds on the diameter of the set of optimisers). On the qualitative side, we prove that when one marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 William Ford

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Xun Tang , Holakou Rahmanian , Michael Shavlovsky , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

Developing a contemporary optimal transport (OT) solver requires navigating trade-offs among several critical requirements: GPU parallelization, scalability to high-dimensional problems, theoretical convergence guarantees, empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mete Kemertas , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Allan D. Jepson

Starting from Brenier's relaxed formulation of the incompressible Euler equation in terms of geodesics in the group of measure-preserving diffeomorphisms, we propose a numerical method based on Sinkhorn's algorithm for the entropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Luca Nenna
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