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Scalable Computation of Dynamic Flow Problems via Multimarginal Graph-Structured Optimal Transport
Signal Processing Laboratory 4, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2484-0181
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9778-1426
School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA 30332 Atlanta, Georgia.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Mathematics (Dept.), Numerical Analysis, Optimization and Systems Theory.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5158-9255
2024 (English)In: Mathematics of Operations Research, ISSN 0364-765X, E-ISSN 1526-5471, Vol. 49, no 2, p. 986-1011Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multicommodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multimarginal optimal transport problem, where the cost function and the constraints on the marginals are associated with a graph structure. By exploiting these structures and building on recent advances in optimal transport theory, we develop an efficient method for such entropy-regularized optimal transport problems. In particular, the graph structure is utilized to efficiently compute the projections needed in the corresponding Sinkhorn iterations, and we arrive at a scheme that is both highly computationally efficient and easy to implement. To illustrate the performance of our algorithm, we compare it with a state-of-the-art linear programming (LP) solver. We achieve good approximations to the solution at least one order of magnitude faster than the LP solver. Finally, we showcase the methodology on a traffic routing problem with a large number of commodities.

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) , 2024. Vol. 49, no 2, p. 986-1011
Keywords [en]
Computational methods, dynamic network flow, multicommodity network flow, multimarginal optimal transport, Sinkhorn’s method, traffic routing
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Computational Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-347287DOI: 10.1287/moor.2021.0148ISI: 001254086200016Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194340846OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-347287DiVA, id: diva2:1867219
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Available from: 2024-06-10 Created: 2024-06-10 Last updated: 2024-09-05Bibliographically approved

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