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While optimal transport (OT) enforces a rigid constraint by requiring two measures to be matched exactly, partial optimal transport relaxes this requirement by allowing mass to remain unmatched through a global budget, scalar rebate, or…

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This paper considers a convex optimization problem with cost and constraints that evolve over time. The function to be minimized is strongly convex and possibly non-differentiable, and variables are coupled through linear constraints. In…

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An adaptive, adversarial methodology is developed for the optimal transport problem between two distributions $\mu$ and $\nu$, known only through a finite set of independent samples $(x_i)_{i=1..N}$ and $(y_j)_{j=1..M}$. The methodology…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Montacer Essid , Debra Laefer , Esteban G. Tabak

We propose an approach to trajectory optimization for piecewise polynomial systems based on the recently proposed graphs of convex sets framework. We instantiate the framework with a convex relaxation of optimal control based on occupation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Etienne Buehrle , Ömer Şahin Taş , Christoph Stiller

Asymmetric damping is widely used in passive vehicle suspensions, with rebound damping often recommended to exceed compression damping by a factor of two to three. Despite its prevalence, this guideline remains largely empirical and lacks a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 José Geraldo Telles Ribeiro , Americo Cunha

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems require load balancing to maintain consistent service across regions with uneven demand subject to time-varying traffic conditions. The load-balancing objective is to jointly minimize the fraction of lost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Rebecca Swaszek , Christos Cassandras

We design a coordination mechanism for truck drivers that uses pricing-and-routing schemes that can help alleviate traffic congestion in a general transportation network. We consider the user heterogeneity in Value-Of-Time (VOT) by adopting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Aristotelis-Angelos Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kordonis , Maged M. Dessouky , Petros A. Ioannou

In recent times, various distributed optimization algorithms have been proposed for whose specific agent dynamics global optimality and convergence is proven. However, there exist no general conditions for the design of such algorithms. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Pol Jane-Soneira , Charles Muller , Felix Strehle , Sören Hohmann

This paper investigates the role of feasible initial guesses and large consensus-violation penalization in distributed optimization for Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems. Specifically, we discuss the behavior of the Alternating Direction of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser

Tradable Credit Schemes (TCS) promote the use of public and shared transport by capping private car usage while maintaining fair welfare outcomes by allowing credit trading. However, most existing studies assume unlimited public transit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Zenghao Hou , Ludovic Leclercq

We study the problem of bounding path-dependent expectations (within any finite time horizon $d$) over the class of discrete-time martingales whose marginal distributions lie within a prescribed tolerance of a given collection of benchmark…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Zhengqing Zhou , Jose Blanchet , Peter W. Glynn

This work views the multi-agent system and its surrounding environment as a co-evolving system, where the behavior of one affects the other. The goal is to take both agent actions and environment configurations as decision variables, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhan Gao , Guang Yang , Amanda Prorok

We consider the sequential decision-making problem of making proactive request assignment and rejection decisions for a profit-maximizing operator of an autonomous mobility on demand system. We formalize this problem as a Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Tobias Enders , James Harrison , Marco Pavone , Maximilian Schiffer

When selfish users share a road network and minimize their individual travel costs, the equilibrium they reach can be worse than the socially optimal routing. Tolls are often used to mitigate this effect in traditional congestion games,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Daniel A. Lazar , Ramtin Pedarsani

This paper studies an important rate allocation problem that arises in many networked and distributed systems: steady-state traffic rate allocation from multiple sources to multiple service nodes when both (i) the access-path delay on each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tamoghna Sarkar , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

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

Challenges in last-mile delivery have encouraged innovative solutions like crowdsourced delivery, where online platforms leverage the services of drivers who occasionally perform delivery tasks for compensation. A key challenge is that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Alim Buğra Çınar , Claudia Archetti , Wout Dullaert , Markus Leitner , Stefan Waldherr

We consider ride-sharing networks served byhuman-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles. First, wepropose a novel model for ride-sharing in this mixed autonomysetting for a multi-location network in which the platformsets prices for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Qinshuang Wei , Jorge Alberto Rodriguez , Ramtin Pedarsani , Samuel Coogan

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

In this work, we aim at efficiently solving a parametrized family of optimal transport problems by using model order reduction methods. We propose a reduced-order model by adding to the primal (respectively dual) version of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Elise Bonnet-Weill , Virginie Ehrlacher , Luca Nenna