Routing Optimization

Immiscible Color Flows in Optimal Transport Networks for Image Classification

In classification tasks, it is crucial to meaningfully exploit information contained in data. Here, we propose a physics-inspired dynamical system that adapts Optimal Transport principles to effectively leverage color distributions of images. Our …

Infrastructure adaptation and emergence of loops in network routing with time-dependent loads

Network routing approaches are widely used to study the evolution in time of self-adapting systems. However, few advances have been made for problems where adaptation is governed by time-dependent inputs. In this work, we study a dynamical systems …

AConvergence properties of optimal transport-based temporal hypernetworks

We present a method to extract temporal hypergraphs from sequences of 2-dimensional functions obtained as solutions to Optimal Transport problems. We investigate optimality principles exhibited by these solutions from the point of view of hypergraph …

Revealing the similarity between urban transportation networks and optimal transport-based infrastructures

Designing and optimizing the structure of urban transportation networks is a challenging task. In this study, we propose a method inspired by optimal transport theory to reproduce the optimal structure of public transportation networks, that uses …

Sustainable optimal transport in multilayer networks

Traffic congestion is one of the major challenges faced by the transportation industry. While this problem carries a high economical and environmental cost, the need for an efficient design of optimal paths for passengers in multilayer network …

Multicommodity routing optimization for engineering networks

Optimizing passengers routes is crucial to design efficient transportation networks. Recent results show that optimal transport provides an efficient alternative to standard optimization methods. However, it is not yet clear if this formalism has …

Designing optimal networks for multicommodity transport problem

Designing and optimizing different flows in networks is a relevant problem in many contexts. While a number of methods have been proposed in the physics and optimal transport literature for the one-commodity case, we lack similar results for the …

Convergence properties of optimal transport-based temporal networks

We study network properties of networks evolving in time based on optimal transport principles. These evolve from a structure covering uniformly a continuous space towards an optimal design in terms of optimal transport theory. At convergence, the …

Principled network extraction from images

Images of natural systems may represent patterns of network-like structure, which could reveal important information about the topological properties of the underlying subject. However, the image itself does not automatically provide a formal …

Optimal Transport in Multilayer Networks for Traffic Flow Optimization for Traffic Flow Optimization

Modeling traffic distribution and extracting optimal flows in multilayer networks is of utmost importance to design efficient multi-modal network infrastructures. Recent results based on optimal transport theory provide powerful and computationally …