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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…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

Caffarelli's contraction theorem states that the Brenier optimal transport map from the standard Gaussian measure to a more log-concave probability measure is 1-Lipschitz. Owing to its many applications in analysis, probability, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Shrey Aryan

Optimal transportation of raw material from suppliers to customers is an issue arising in logistics that is addressed here with a continuous model relying on optimal transport theory. A physics informed neuralnetwork method is advocated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Alexandre Caboussat , Anna Peruso

We address optimal control problems on the space of measures for an objective containing a smooth functional and an optimal transport regularization. That is, the quadratic Monge-Kantorovich distance between a given prior measure and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Nicolas Borchard , Gerd Wachsmuth

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

Inspired by the matching of supply to demand in logistical problems, the optimal transport (or Monge--Kantorovich) problem involves the matching of probability distributions defined over a geometric domain such as a surface or manifold. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Justin Solomon

Optimal Mass Transport (OMT) is a well studied problem with a variety of applications in a diverse set of fields ranging from Physics to Computer Vision and in particular Statistics and Data Science. Since the original formulation of Monge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Amanpreet Singh , Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi

We develop a computationally tractable method for estimating the optimal map between two distributions over $\mathbb{R}^d$ with rigorous finite-sample guarantees. Leveraging an entropic version of Brenier's theorem, we show that our…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Consider two bounded domains $\Omega$ and $\Lambda$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, and two sufficiently regular probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ supported on them. By Brenier's theorem, there exists a unique transportation map $T$ satisfying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Otis Chodosh , Vishesh Jain , Michael Lindsey , Lyuboslav Panchev , Yanir A. Rubinstein

We provide a new proof of the known partial regularity result for the optimal transportation map (Brenier map) between two sets. Contrary to the existing regularity theory for the Monge-Amp{\`e}re equation, which is based on the maximum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Michael Goldman , F Otto

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

In this work we prove that the unique 1-convex solution of the Monge problem contructed from the solution of the Monge-Kantorovitch problem between the Wiener measure and a target measure which has a log-concave density w.r.to the Wiener…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Feyel , A. S. Ustunel

We give a new proof of the Caffarelli contraction theorem, which states that the Brenier optimal transport map sending the standard Gaussian measure onto a uniformly log-concave probability measure is Lipschitz. The proof combines a recent…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Max Fathi , Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Prodhomme

This article investigates the quality of the estimator of the linear Monge mapping between distributions. We provide the first concentration result on the linear mapping operator and prove a sample complexity of $n^{-1/2}$ when using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Rémi Flamary , Karim Lounici , André Ferrari

We give a new probabilistic construction of solutions to real Monge-Amp\`ere equations in R^n satisfying the second boundary value problem with respect to a given target convex body P) which fits naturally into the theory of optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Robert J. Berman

By investigating model-independent bounds for exotic options in financial mathematics, a martingale version of the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem was introduced in \cite{BeiglbockHenry…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-04-10 Pierre Henry-Labordere , Nizar Touzi

A simple procedure to map two probability measures in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is the so-called \emph{Knothe-Rosenblatt rearrangement}, which consists in rearranging monotonically the marginal distributions of the last coordinate, and then the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-24 Guillaume Carlier , Alfred Galichon , Filippo Santambrogio

We propose deep learning methods for classical Monge's optimal mass transportation problems, where where the distribution constraint is treated as penalty terms defined by the maximum mean discrepancy in the theory of Hilbert space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Takafumi Saito , Yumiharu Nakano

Entropic optimal transport offers a computationally tractable approximation to the classical problem. In this note, we study the approximation rate of the entropic optimal transport map (in approaching the Brenier map) when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Ritwik Sadhu , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

We prove that if $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is a (not necessarily strictly) convex, $C^1$ domain, and $\mu$ and $\bar{\mu}$ are probability measures absolutely continuous with respect to surface measure on $\partial \Omega$, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Seonghyeon Jeong , Jun Kitagawa