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Many of the recent trajectory optimization algorithms alternate between linear approximation of the system dynamics around the mean trajectory and conservative policy update. One way of constraining the policy change is by bounding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Riad Akrour , Abbas Abdolmaleki , Hany Abdulsamad , Jan Peters , Gerhard Neumann

This paper addresses the problem of estimating entropy-regularized optimal transport (EOT) maps with squared-Euclidean cost between source and target measures that are subGaussian. In the case that the target measure is compactly supported…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Matthew Werenski , James M. Murphy , Shuchin Aeron

We prove Kantorovich duality for a linearized version of a recently proposed non-quadratic quantum optimal transport problem, where quantum channels realize the transport. As an application, we determine optimal solutions of both the primal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Gergely Bunth , József Pitrik , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

We explore a robust version of the barycenter problem among $n$ centered Gaussian probability measures, termed Semi-Unbalanced Optimal Transport (SUOT)-based Barycenter, wherein the barycenter remains fixed while the others are relaxed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ngoc-Hai Nguyen , Dung Le , Hoang-Phi Nguyen , Tung Pham , Nhat Ho

Quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) of obstacle type in many cases have multiple solutions that can be ordered. We study a multitude of properties of the operator mapping the source term to the minimal or maximal solution of such QVIs. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Amal Alphonse , Michael Hintermüller , Carlos N. Rautenberg , Gerd Wachsmuth

This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

We reformulate a class of non-linear stochastic optimal control problems introduced by Todorov (2007) as a Kullback-Leibler (KL) minimization problem. As a result, the optimal control computation reduces to an inference computation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-19 B. Kappen , V. Gomez , M. Opper

We present a noncommutative optimal transport framework for quantum channels acting on von Neumann algebras. Our central object is the Lipschitz cost measure, a transportation-inspired quantity that evaluates the minimal cost required to…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Roy Araiza , Marius Junge , Peixue Wu

We develop a general approach to prove global regularity estimates for quadratic optimal transport using the entropic regularisation of the problem and the Prekopa-Leindler inequality.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Sylvestre

In the theory of optimal transport, the Knothe-Rosenblatt (KR) rearrangement provides an explicit construction to map between two probability measures by building one-dimensional transformations from the marginal conditionals of one measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Ricardo Baptista , Franca Hoffmann , Minh Van Hoang Nguyen , Benjamin Zhang

We analyze statistical properties of plug-in estimators for unbalanced optimal transport quantities between finitely supported measures in different prototypical sampling models. Specifically, our main results provide non-asymptotic bounds…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-25 Shayan Hundrieser , Florian Heinemann , Marcel Klatt , Marina Struleva , Axel Munk

We establish a dimension-free improvement of Talagrand's Gaussian transport-entropy inequality, under the assumption that the measures satisfy a Poincar\'e inequality. We also study stability of the inequality, in terms of relative entropy,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Dan Mikulincer

We consider a parabolic-elliptic type of Keller-Segel equations with generalized diffusion and logistic source under homogeneous Neumann-Neumann boundary conditions. We construct bounded weak solutions globally in time in an unbalanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Kyungkeun Kang , Hwa Kil Kim , Geuntaek Seo

We propose a model of optimal parallel transport between vector fields on a connection graph, which consists of a weighted graph along with a map from its edges to an orthogonal group. Inspired by the well-known equivalence of 1-Wasserstein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Sawyer Robertson , Dhruv Kohli , Gal Mishne , Alexander Cloninger

We study Sinkhorn's algorithm for solving the entropically regularized optimal transport problem. Its iterate $\pi_{t}$ is shown to satisfy $H(\pi_{t}|\pi_{*})+H(\pi_{*}|\pi_{t})=O(t^{-1})$ where $H$ denotes relative entropy and $\pi_{*}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

We propose a new class of exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria involving non-quadratic data terms such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the logistic regression, possibly combined with an l2 regularization. We first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 M'hamed Essafri , Luca Calatroni , Emmanuel Soubies

In this paper we study a variant of the branched transportation problem, that we call multi-material transport problem. This is a transportation problem, where distinct commodities are transported simultaneously along a network. The cost of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi , Riccardo Tione

This paper is concerned with six variational problems and their mutual connections: The quadratic Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, the Schr\"odinger problem, Brenier's relaxed model for incompressible fluids, the so-called Br\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Aymeric Baradat , Léonard Monsaingeon

The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structures for an ideal gauge-charged fluid are determined. Using a Kaluza-Klein point of view, the equations of motion are obtained by Lagrangian and Poisson reductions associated to the automorphism group of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-26 François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu

The modeling of phenomenological structure is a crucial aspect in inverse imaging problems. One emerging modeling tool in computational imaging is the optimal transport framework. Its ability to model geometric displacements across an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 John Lee , Nicholas P. Bertrand , Christopher J. Rozell