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There are well-established connections between combinatorial optimization, optimal transport theory and Hydrodynamics, through the linear assignment problem in combinatorics, the Monge-Kantorovich problem in optimal transport theory and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Yann Brenier

The optimal transport problem has recently developed into a powerful framework for various applications in estimation and control. Many of the recent advances in the theory and application of optimal transport are based on regularizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj

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

Computing optimal transport (OT) for general high-dimensional data has been a long-standing challenge. Despite much progress, most of the efforts including neural network methods have been focused on the static formulation of the OT…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

Optimal transport from the volume measure to a convex combination of Dirac measures yields a tessellation of a Riemannian manifold into pieces of arbitrary relative size. This tessellation is studied for the cost functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-08 Martin Huesmann

In the current book I suggest an off-road path to the subject of optimal transport. I tried to avoid prior knowledge of analysis, PDE theory and functional analysis, as much as possible. Thus I concentrate on discrete and semi-discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Gershon Wolansky

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

This article gives an introduction to optimal transport, a mathematical theory that makes it possible to measure distances between functions (or distances between more general objects), to interpolate between objects or to enforce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Bruno Levy , Erica Schwindt

We study the computational complexity of the optimal transport problem that evaluates the Wasserstein distance between the distributions of two K-dimensional discrete random vectors. The best known algorithms for this problem run in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bahar Taşkesen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn , Karthik Natarajan

We consider the multi-marginal optimal transport of aligning several compactly supported marginals on the Heisenberg group to minimize the total cost, which we take to be the sum of the squared Carnot-Carath\'eodory distances from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Brendan Pass , Andrea Pinamonti , Mattia Vedovato

We investigate the small regularization limit of entropic optimal transport when the cost function is the Euclidean distance in dimensions $d > 1$, and the marginal measures are absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Shrey Aryan , Promit Ghosal

We investigate the connections between continuous model theory, free probability, and optimal transport/convex analysis in the context of tracial von Neumann algebras. In particular, we give an analog of Monge-Kantorovich duality for…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-12 David Jekel

Optimal mass transport is described by an approximation of transport cost via semi-discrete costs. The notions of optimal partition and optimal strong partition are given as well. We also suggest an algorithm for computation of Optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Gershon Wolansky

We prove a new sample complexity result for divergence regularized optimal transport. Our bound holds for probability measures on~$\mathbb{R}^d$ with exponential tail decay and for radial cost functions that satisfy a local Lipschitz…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Ruiyu Han , Johannes Wiesel

We present a systematic study of conditional triangular transport maps in function spaces from the perspective of optimal transportation and with a view towards amortized Bayesian inference. More specifically, we develop a theory of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Bamdad Hosseini , Alexander W. Hsu , Amirhossein Taghvaei

In this work, we construct a novel numerical method for solving the multi-marginal optimal transport problems with Coulomb cost. This type of optimal transport problems arises in quantum physics and plays an important role in understanding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yukuan Hu , Huajie Chen , Xin Liu

Regularising the primal formulation of optimal transport (OT) with a strictly convex term leads to enhanced numerical complexity and a denser transport plan. Many formulations impose a global constraint on the transport plan, for instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Hugues Van Assel , Titouan Vayer , Remi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

Beckmann's problem in optimal transport minimizes the total squared flux in a continuous transport problem from a source to a target distribution. In this article, the regularity theory for solutions to Beckmann's problem in optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Hanno Gottschalk , Tobias J. Riedlinger

We study a multi-marginal optimal transportation problem on a Riemannian manifold, with cost function given by the average distance squared from multiple points to their barycenter. Under a standard regularity condition on the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass