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We consider minimizing a sum of agent-specific nondifferentiable merely convex functions over the solution set of a variational inequality (VI) problem in that each agent is associated with a local monotone mapping. This problem finds an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Harshal D. Kaushik , Sepideh Samadi , Farzad Yousefian

We consider so-called branched transport and variants thereof in two space dimensions. In these models one seeks an optimal transportation network for a given mass transportation task. In two space dimensions, they are closely connected to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Carolin Dirks , Benedikt Wirth

The fundamental theorem of classical optimal transport establishes strong duality and characterizes optimizers through a complementary slackness condition. Milestones such as Brenier's theorem and the Kantorovich-Rubinstein formula are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Mathias Beiglböck , Gudmund Pammer , Lorenz Riess , Stefan Schrott

Finding optimal trajectories for multiple traffic demands in a congested network is a challenging task. Optimal transport theory is a principled approach that has been used successfully to study various transportation problems. Its usage is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Michael Muehlebach , Caterina De Bacco

We present a method to extract temporal hypergraphs from sequences of 2-dimensional functions obtained as solutions to Optimal Transport problems. We investigate optimality principles exhibited by these solutions from the point of view of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

This work is concerned with the efficient optimization method for solving a large class of optimal mass transport problems. An inexact primal-dual algorithm is presented from the time discretization of a proper dynamical system, and by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Jun Hu , Hao Luo , Zihang Zhang

Many problems in geometric optics or convex geometry can be recast as optimal transport problems: this includes the far-field reflector problem, Alexandrov's curvature prescription problem, etc. A popular way to solve these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Jun Kitagawa , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

We investigate optimal mass transport problem of affine-nonlinear dynamical systems with input and density constraints. Three algorithms are proposed to tackle this problem, including two Uzawa-type methods and a splitting algorithm based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

We propose a fast algorithm to approximate the optimal transport distance. The main idea is to add a Fisher information regularization into the dynamical setting of the problem, originated by Benamou and Brenier. The regularized problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Wuchen Li , Penghang Yin , Stanley Osher

The calculus of variations is employed to find steady divergence-free velocity fields that maximize transport of a tracer between two parallel walls held at fixed concentration for one of two constraints on flow strength: a fixed value of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-26 Pedram Hassanzadeh , Gregory P. Chini , Charles R. Doering

We extend the Benamou-Brenier formula from classical optimal transport to weak optimal transport and show that the barycentric optimal transport problem studied by Gozlan and Juillet has a dynamic analogue. We also investigate a martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ivan Guo , Severin Nilsson , Johannes Wiesel

We consider the transfer operators of non-uniformly expanding maps for potentials of various regularity, and show that a specific property of potentials ("flatness") implies a Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius Theorem and a decay of the transfer…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Benoît Kloeckner

We introduce a new second order stochastic algorithm to estimate the entropically regularized optimal transport cost between two probability measures. The source measure can be arbitrary chosen, either absolutely continuous or discrete,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Sébastien Gadat , Emilia Siviero

Network topology optimization (NTO) via busbar splitting can mitigate transmission grid congestion and reduce redispatch costs. However, solving this mixed-integer nonlinear problem for large-scale systems in near-real-time is currently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ali Rajaei , Peter Palensky , Jochen L. Cremer

As an emerging artificial intelligence technology, graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited promising performance across a wide range of graph-related applications. However, information exchanges among neighbor nodes in GNN pose new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jun Li , Weiwei Zhang , Kang Wei , Guangji Chen , Long Shi , Wen Chen

We study the geometry of conditional optimal transport (COT) and prove a dynamical formulation which generalizes the Benamou-Brenier Theorem. Equipped with these tools, we propose a simulation-free flow-based method for conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Gavin Kerrigan , Giosue Migliorini , Padhraic Smyth

How to obtain a graph from data samples is an important problem in graph signal processing. One way to formulate this graph learning problem is based on Gaussian maximum likelihood estimation, possibly under particular topology constraints.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-02 Keng-Shih Lu , Antonio Ortega

In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method to address the high-dimensional dynamic unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) problem. Dynamic UOT focuses on the optimal transportation between two densities with unequal total mass,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Wei Wan , Jiangong Pan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Zuoqiang Shi

In many scientific fields imaging is used to relate a certain physical quantity to other dependent variables. Therefore, images can be considered as a map from a real-world coordinate system to the non-negative measurements being acquired.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Liam Cattell , Gustavo K. Rohde

The nonlinear systems obtained by discretizing degenerate parabolic equations may be hard to solve, especially with Newton's method. In this paper, we apply to Richards equation a strategy that consists in defining a new primary unknown for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Konstantin Brenner , Clément Cancès