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This paper studies the continuous-time distributed optimization of a sum of convex functions over directed graphs. Contrary to what is known in the consensus literature, where the same dynamics works for both undirected and directed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Bahman Gharesifard , Jorge Cortes

We rephrase Monge's optimal transportation (OT) problem with quadratic cost--via a Monge-Amp\`ere equation--as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is in fact a convex problem when the target is a log-concave measure with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Lindsey , Yanir A. Rubinstein

Adapted optimal transport (AOT) problems are optimal transport problems for distributions of a time series where couplings are constrained to have a temporal causal structure. In this paper, we develop computational tools for solving AOT…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Stephan Eckstein , Gudmund Pammer

The optimal transport (OT) map offers the most economical way to transfer one probability measure distribution to another. Classical OT theory does not involve a discussion of preserving topological connections and orientations in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yuping Lv , Qi Zhao , Xuebin Chang , Wei Zeng

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful tool in mathematics and data science but faces severe computational and statistical challenges in high dimensions. We propose convex relaxation approaches based on marginal and cluster moment relaxations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yuehaw Khoo , Tianyun Tang

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

We analyze discrete optimal control problems and their connection with back propagation and deep learning. We consider in particular the symmetric representation of the discrete rigid body equations developed via optimal control analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Anthony M. Bloch , Peter E. Crouch , Tudor S. Ratiu

Optimal transport (OT) theory underlies many emerging machine learning (ML) methods nowadays solving a wide range of tasks such as generative modeling, transfer learning and information retrieval. These latter works, however, usually build…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Quang Huy Tran , Hicham Janati , Ievgen Redko , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

This paper studies a distributed online convex optimization problem, where agents in an unbalanced network cooperatively minimize the sum of their time-varying local cost functions subject to a coupled inequality constraint. To solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Dandan Wang , Daokuan Zhu , Kin Cheong Sou , Jie Lu

Ensemble systems appear frequently in many engineering applications and, as a result, they have become an important research topic in control theory. These systems are best characterized by the evolution of their underlying state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Guangyu Wu , Panagiotis Tsiotras , Anders Lindquist

This paper introduces and analyses a continuous optimization approach to solve optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and tracking type objectives. Our aim is to determine control or input functions, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Vicky Holfeld , Michael Burger , Claudia Schillings

This paper investigates the distributed continuous-time nonconvex optimization problem over unbalanced directed networks. The objective is to cooperatively drive all the agent states to an optimal solution that minimizes the sum of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Jin Zhang , Yahui Hao , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

This article introduces a new class of fast algorithms to approximate variational problems involving unbalanced optimal transport. While classical optimal transport considers only normalized probability distributions, it is important for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lenaic Chizat , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer , François-Xavier Vialard

This work addresses the exact characterization of the covariance dynamics related to linear discrete-time systems subject to both additive and parametric stochastic uncertainties that are potentially unbounded. Using this characterization,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Kaouther Moussa , Mirko Fiacchini

Solving optimal control problems for transport-dominated partial differential equations (PDEs) can become computationally expensive, especially when dealing with high-dimensional systems. To overcome this challenge, we focus on developing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Tobias Breiten , Shubhaditya Burela , Philipp Schulze

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. A novel distributed continuous-time state feedback controller is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji , Xinghu Wang

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of second-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. Under the standard assumption that local cost functions are strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

We study the use of amortized optimization to predict optimal transport (OT) maps from the input measures, which we call Meta OT. This helps repeatedly solve similar OT problems between different measures by leveraging the knowledge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Brandon Amos , Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Ievgen Redko

In this paper, we study a discrete-time stochastic optimal control problem under distribution uncertainty with convex control domain. By weak convergence method and Sion's minimax theorem, we obtain the variational inequality for cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaojuan Li

This paper focuses on the trajectory optimization of an underwater suspended robotic system comprising an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) and an uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) for autonomous litter collection. The key challenge lies in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yuki Origane , Nicolas Hoischen , Tzu-Yuan Huang , Daisuke Kurabayashi , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche