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| Format: | Preprint |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19246 |
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- Numerically solving multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT) problems is computationally prohibitive, even for moderate-scale instances involving $l\ge4$ marginals with support sizes of $N\ge1000$. The cost in MMOT is represented as a tensor with $N^l$ elements. Even accessing each element once incurs a significant computational burden. In fact, many algorithms require direct computation of tensor-vector products, leading to a computational complexity of $O(N^l)$ or beyond. In this paper, inspired by our previous work [$Comm. \ Math. \ Sci.$, 20 (2022), pp. 2053 - 2057], we observe that the costly tensor-vector products in the Sinkhorn Algorithm can be computed with a recursive process by separating summations and dynamic programming. Based on this idea, we propose a fast tensor-vector product algorithm to solve the MMOT problem with $L^1$ cost, achieving a miraculous reduction in the computational cost of the entropy regularized solution to $O(N)$. Numerical experiment results confirm such high performance of this novel method which can be several orders of magnitude faster than the original Sinkhorn algorithm.