Computational optimal transport: With applications to data science

G Peyré, M Cuturi - Foundations and Trends® in Machine …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
Optimal transport (OT) theory can be informally described using the words of the French
mathematician Gaspard Monge (1746–1818): A worker with a shovel in hand has to move a …

Recent developments in numerical methods for fully nonlinear second order partial differential equations

X Feng, R Glowinski, M Neilan - siam REVIEW, 2013 - SIAM
This article surveys the recent developments in computational methods for second order
fully nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), a relatively new subarea within …

Application of optimal transport and the quadratic Wasserstein metric to full-waveform inversion

Y Yang, B Engquist, J Sun, BF Hamfeldt - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
Conventional full-waveform inversion (FWI) using the least-squares norm as a misfit function
is known to suffer from cycle-skip** issues that increase the risk of computing a local …

Application of the Wasserstein metric to seismic signals

B Engquist, BD Froese - arxiv preprint arxiv:1311.4581, 2013 - arxiv.org
Seismic signals are typically compared using travel time difference or $ L_2 $ difference. We
propose the Wasserstein metric as an alternative measure of fidelity or misfit in seismology …

Numerical solution of the optimal transportation problem using the Monge–Ampère equation

JD Benamou, BD Froese, AM Oberman - Journal of Computational Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
A numerical method for the solution of the elliptic Monge–Ampère Partial Differential
Equation, with boundary conditions corresponding to the Optimal Transportation (OT) …

A least-squares method for optimal transport using the Monge--Ampère equation

CR Prins, R Beltman, JHM ten Thije Boonkkamp… - SIAM Journal on …, 2015 - SIAM
In this article we introduce a novel numerical method to solve the problem of optimal
transport and the related elliptic Monge--Ampère equation. It is one of the few numerical …

Optimal transport on discrete domains

J Solomon - AMS Short Course on Discrete Differential Geometry, 2018 - ams.org
Many tools from discrete differential geometry (DDG) were inspired by practical
considerations in areas like computer graphics and vision. Disciplines like these require fine …

Convergent filtered schemes for the Monge--Ampère partial differential equation

BD Froese, AM Oberman - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2013 - SIAM
The theory of viscosity solutions has been effective for representing and approximating weak
solutions to fully nonlinear partial differential equations such as the elliptic Monge--Ampère …

A numerical method for the elliptic Monge--Ampère equation with transport boundary conditions

BD Froese - SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2012 - SIAM
The problem of optimal mass transport arises in numerous applications, including image
registration, mesh generation, reflector design, and astrophysics. One approach to solving …

Fast Sinkhorn I: An O (N) algorithm for the Wasserstein-1 metric

Q Liao, J Chen, Z Wang, B Bai, S **, H Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Wasserstein metric is broadly used in optimal transport for comparing two probabilistic
distributions, with successful applications in various fields such as machine learning, signal …