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A discrete Benamou-Brenier formulation of Optimal Transport on graphs

Published: January 7, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.04193v1

By: Kieran Morris, Oliver Johnson

Potential Business Impact:

Finds shortest paths on networks for data.

Business Areas:
Transportation Transportation

We propose a discrete transport equation on graphs which connects distributions on both vertices and edges. We then derive a discrete analogue of the Benamou-Brenier formulation for Wasserstein-$1$ distance on a graph and as a result classify all $W_1$ geodesics on graphs.

Country of Origin
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Page Count
9 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Information Theory