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The notion of entropy-regularized optimal transport, also known as Sinkhorn divergence, has recently gained popularity in machine learning and statistics, as it makes feasible the use of smoothed optimal transportation distances for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jérémie Bigot , Elsa Cazelles , Nicolas Papadakis

The optimal transport problem has recently developed into a powerful framework for various applications in estimation and control. Many of the recent advances in the theory and application of optimal transport are based on regularizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

Deterministically solving charged particle transport problems at a sufficient spatial and angular resolution is often prohibitively expensive, especially due to their highly forward peaked scattering. We propose a model order reduction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Pia Stammer , Tiberiu Burlacu , Niklas Wahl , Danny Lathouwers , Jonas Kusch

We propose a novel probabilistic approach to multilevel clustering problems based on composite transportation distance, which is a variant of transportation distance where the underlying metric is Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Nhat Ho , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung , Michael I. Jordan

Computational implementation of optimal transport barycenters for a set of target probability measures requires a form of approximation, a widespread solution being empirical approximation of measures. We provide an $O(\sqrt{N/n})$…

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This paper deals with the deterministic particle method for the equation of porous media (with p = 2). We establish a convergence rate in the Wasserstein-2 distance between the approximate solution of the associated nonlinear transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Amina Amassad , Datong Zhou

Adjoint-based shape optimization most often relies on Eulerian flow field formulations. However, since Lagrangian particle methods are the natural choice for solving sedimentation problems in oceanography, extensions to the Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-07 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz

In this paper, a risk-aware motion control scheme is considered for mobile robots to avoid randomly moving obstacles when the true probability distribution of uncertainty is unknown. We propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

Minimizing a convex function of a measure with a sparsity-inducing penalty is a typical problem arising, e.g., in sparse spikes deconvolution or two-layer neural networks training. We show that this problem can be solved by discretizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lenaic Chizat

We formulate and study an optimal transportation problem with infinitely many marginals; this is a natural extension of the multi-marginal problem studied by Gangbo and Swiech (1998). We prove results on the existence, uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Brendan Pass

The objective of this paper is to develop a duality between a novel Entropy Martingale Optimal Transport problem (A) and an associated optimization problem (B). In (A) we follow the approach taken in the Entropy Optimal Transport (EOT)…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-30 Alessandro Doldi , Marco Frittelli

We consider some repulsive multimarginal optimal transportation problems which include, as a particular case, the Coulomb cost. We prove a regularity property of the minimizers (optimal transportation plan) from which we deduce existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Thierry Champion , Luigi De Pascale

We formulate and analyse an optimal control problem for the coagulation-fragmentation equation, where a scalar, time-dependent control modulates the coagulation rate by multiplying the coagulation kernel. The objective functional consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Enrico Sartor

We study the stability of entropically regularized optimal transport with respect to the marginals. Given marginals converging weakly, we establish a strong convergence for the Schr\"odinger potentials describing the density of the optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Marcel Nutz , Johannes Wiesel

We present a novel direct transcription method to solve optimization problems subject to nonlinear differential and inequality constraints. We prove convergence of our numerical method under reasonably mild assumptions: boundedness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Martin P. Neuenhofen , Eric C. Kerrigan

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

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We propose a new method to estimate Wasserstein distances and optimal transport plans between two probability distributions from samples in high dimension. Unlike plug-in rules that simply replace the true distributions by their empirical…

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Chuanzhi Lv , Xunmin Yin , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

This paper addresses a class of general nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problems subject to nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that a part of the objective function and the functional constraints exhibit local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Lahcen El Bourkhissi , Ion Necoara , Panagiotis Patrinos , Quoc Tran-Dinh

Semi-infinite programming can be used to model a large variety of complex optimization problems. The simple description of such problems comes at a price: semi-infinite problems are often harder to solve than finite nonlinear problems. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer