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We establish weak limits for the empirical entropy regularized optimal transport cost, the expectation of the empirical plan and the conditional expectation. Our results require only uniform boundedness of the cost function and no…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Alberto González-Sanz , Shayan Hundrieser

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Tyler Maunu

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

We develop an $\e$-regularity theory at the boundary for a general class of Monge-Amp\`ere type equations arising in optimal transportation. As a corollary we deduce that optimal transport maps between H\"older densities supported on $C^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Shibing Chen , Alessio Figalli

Entropic Brenier maps are regularized analogues of Brenier maps (optimal transport maps) which converge to Brenier maps as the regularization parameter shrinks. In this work, we prove quantitative stability bounds between entropic Brenier…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Vincent Divol , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Aram-Alexandre Pooladian

In this paper, we are motivated by two important applications: entropy-regularized optimal transport problem and road or IP traffic demand matrix estimation by entropy model. Both of them include solving a special type of optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Sergey Omelchenko , Alexander Tiurin

Large-deviation upper bounds on compact sets do not, in general, extend to arbitrary closed sets without additional tightness. We show that this obstruction already occurs in static entropic optimal transport. More precisely, we construct a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Maja Gwozdz

The discretization of optimal transport problems often leads to large linear programs with sparse solutions. We derive error estimates for the approximation of the problem using convex combinations of Dirac measures and devise an active-set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Sören Bartels , Stephan Hertzog

Entropically regularized optimal transport between probability measures supported on compact subsets of Euclidean space admits a representation as an information projection under moment inequality constraints. Exploiting this structure, I…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Rami V. Tabri

We study the convergence of entropically regularized optimal transport to optimal transport. The main result is concerned with the convergence of the associated optimizers and takes the form of a large deviations principle quantifying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Espen Bernton , Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

In this essay, we discuss the notion of optimal transport on geodesic measure spaces and the associated (2-)Wasserstein distance. We then examine displacement convexity of the entropy functional on the space of probability measures. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Otis Chodosh

We consider the LP in standard form min {c T x\,: Ax = b; x $\ge$ 0} and inspired by $\epsilon$-regularization in Optimal Transport, we introduce its $\epsilon$-regularization ''min {c T x + $\epsilon$ f (x)\,: Ax = b; x $\ge$ 0}'' via the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Saroj Prasad Chhatoi , Jean B Lasserre

We introduce a technique for the analysis of general spatially coupled systems that are governed by scalar recursions. Such systems can be expressed in variational form in terms of a potential functional. We show, under mild conditions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Rafah El-Khatib , Nicolas Macris , Tom Richardson , Ruediger Urbanke

We provide an asymptotic analysis of linear transport problems in the diffusion limit under minimal regularity assumptions on the domain, the coefficients, and the data. The weak form of the limit equation is derived and the convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-31 Herbert Egger , Matthias Schlottbom

In order to circumvent the difficulties in solving numerically the discrete optimal transport problem, in which one minimizes the linear target function $P\mapsto\langle C,P\rangle:=\sum_{i,j}C_{ij}P_{ij}$, Cuturi introduced a variant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Daiji Tsutsui

The least gradient problem (minimizing the total variation with given boundary data) is equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain, which is in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Filippo Santambrogio , Samer Dweik

In recent works - both experimental and theoretical - it has been shown how to use computational geometry to efficently construct approximations to the optimal transport map between two given probability measures on Euclidean space, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Robert J. Berman

We study the small-regularisation limit of the entropic optimal transport problem on the line with distance cost. While convergence of entropic minimizers is well understood in the discrete setting and in the case where the cost is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Armand Ley

Sampling-based motion planners have proven to be efficient solutions to a variety of high-dimensional, geometrically complex motion planning problems with applications in several domains. The traditional view of these approaches is that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Andrew Dobson , George V. Moustakides , Kostas E. Bekris

This work revisits a recent finding by the first author concerning the local convergence of a regularized scalar conservation law. We significantly improve the original statement by establishing a global convergence result within the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Billel Guelmame , Haroune Houamed