An efficient second-order cone programming approach for dynamic optimal transport on staggered grid discretization

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Main Authors: Chen, Liang, Lin, Youyicun, Zhou, Yuxuan
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author Chen, Liang
Lin, Youyicun
Zhou, Yuxuan
author_facet Chen, Liang
Lin, Youyicun
Zhou, Yuxuan
contents This paper proposes an efficient numerical method based on second-order cone programming (SOCP) to solve dynamic optimal transport (DOT) problems with quadratic cost on staggered grid discretization. By properly reformulating discretized DOT problems into a linear SOCP, the proposed method eliminates the interpolation matrices and thus avoids solving a series of cubic equations and linear systems induced by interpolation. Then, by taking advantage of the SOCP reformulation, we can solve them efficiently by a computationally highly economical implementation of an inexact decomposition-based proximal augmented Lagrangian method. Moreover, we have made the proposed approach an open-source software package. Numerical experiments on various DOT problems suggest that the proposed approach performs significantly more efficiently than state-of-the-art software packages. In addition, it exhibits prominent robustness to problems with non-negative measures.
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spellingShingle An efficient second-order cone programming approach for dynamic optimal transport on staggered grid discretization
Chen, Liang
Lin, Youyicun
Zhou, Yuxuan
Optimization and Control
90C25, 90C06, 90-04, 65K05, 49Q22
This paper proposes an efficient numerical method based on second-order cone programming (SOCP) to solve dynamic optimal transport (DOT) problems with quadratic cost on staggered grid discretization. By properly reformulating discretized DOT problems into a linear SOCP, the proposed method eliminates the interpolation matrices and thus avoids solving a series of cubic equations and linear systems induced by interpolation. Then, by taking advantage of the SOCP reformulation, we can solve them efficiently by a computationally highly economical implementation of an inexact decomposition-based proximal augmented Lagrangian method. Moreover, we have made the proposed approach an open-source software package. Numerical experiments on various DOT problems suggest that the proposed approach performs significantly more efficiently than state-of-the-art software packages. In addition, it exhibits prominent robustness to problems with non-negative measures.
title An efficient second-order cone programming approach for dynamic optimal transport on staggered grid discretization
topic Optimization and Control
90C25, 90C06, 90-04, 65K05, 49Q22
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05424