GPU-Accelerated Bregman Douglas–Rachford Splitting for Discrete Optimal Transport

We present GPU-accelerated Bregman Douglas–Rachford splitting algorithm (BDRS) for discrete optimal transport problem in three input formats: an explicit cost matrix, a point cloud with a ground cost between them, and a separable cost on a regular grid. For each input format, we propose hardware-aware designs of mathematically equivalent representations for the BDRS iterations to … Read more

Adversarial Training for Deep Hedging in Nonstationary Markets

Deep hedging learns trading policies from historical or simulated market trajectories, yet under nonstationarity these training paths may not represent future market conditions. We propose WRAP (Wasserstein-Reweighting Adversarial Perturbation), a drift-aware adversarial training framework derived from a two-budget distributionally robust optimization (DRO) formulation. The formulation is anchored to a weighted empirical reference distribution whose fixed … Read more

BDRS Can Fail for Matrix Scaling and Optimal Transport

We show that the Bregman Douglas–Rachford splitting method (BDRS) can fail for matrix scaling and unregularized optimal transport. For matrix scaling, we construct a strictly positive \(36\times6\) integer matrix, positive rational marginals of equal mass, and a positive auxiliary initialization for which the matrix iterates enter a nonconstant six-cycle after one iteration. The construction prescribes … Read more

Robust Chance-Constrained Optimization using a Continuous Parameter Space Wasserstein-2 Ambiguity Set of Gaussian Mixtures

We study distributionally robust linear chance-constrained problems in which uncertainty is modeled by a Gaussian mixture model (GMM). Finite-support distributionally robust (FDR) formulations, widely used in data-driven robust optimization, robustify over empirical mixture support points and therefore primarily stress-test the fitted nominal mixture. This can be insufficient when service reliability depends on structural misspecification of … Read more

Log-Averaged Mirror Prox for Fast, Large-Scale Optimal Transport in Linear Space

We propose Log-Averaged Mirror Prox (LAMP), a linear-space primal-dual method for large-scale optimal transport. LAMP implements primal mirror prox updates by tracking an averaged dual sequence, reducing storage complexity from \({O}(nm)\) to \({O}(n+m)\) while preserving dense, GPU-friendly reductions. Consequently, LAMP preserves the last-iterate \(\widetilde{{O}}( nm\varepsilon^{-1})\) arithmetic complexity of conservatively parameterized primal-dual mirror prox. We further … Read more

Closing the Gap: Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Wasserstein Barycenters

The Wasserstein barycenter problem seeks a probability measure that minimizes the weighted average of the Wasserstein distances to a given collection of probability measures. We study the discrete setting, where each measure has finite support — a regime that frequently arises in machine learning and operations research. The discrete Wasserstein barycenter problem is known to … Read more

Bregman Douglas-Rachford Splitting Method

In this paper, we propose the Bregman Douglas-Rachford splitting (BDRS) method and its variant Bregman Peaceman-Rachford splitting method for solving maximal monotone inclusion problem. We show that BDRS is equivalent to a Bregman alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) when applied to the dual of the problem. A special case of the Bregman ADMM is … Read more

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization with Heterogeneous Data Sources

We study decision problems under uncertainty, where the decision-maker has access to K data sources that carry biased information about the underlying risk factors. The biases are measured by the mismatch between the risk factor distribution and the K data-generating distributions with respect to an optimal transport (OT) distance. In this situation the decision-maker can … Read more

Decision-making with Side Information: A Causal Transport Robust Approach

We consider stochastic optimization with side information where, prior to decision-making, covariate data are available to inform better decisions. To hedge against data uncertainty while capturing the information structure revealed from the conditional distribution of random problem parameters given the covariate values, we propose a distributionally robust formulation based on causal transport distance. We derive … Read more

Data-driven Multistage Distributionally Robust Linear Optimization with Nested Distance

We study multistage distributionally robust linear optimization, where the uncertainty set is defined as a ball of distribution centered at a scenario tree using the nested distance. The resulting minimax problem is notoriously difficult to solve due to its inherent non-convexity. In this paper, we demonstrate that, under mild conditions, the robust risk evaluation of … Read more