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@article{Boufelja:2025:10.1016/j.ins.2025.122365,
author = {Boufelja, Y S and Quinn, A and Shorten, R},
doi = {10.1016/j.ins.2025.122365},
journal = {Information Sciences},
title = {Randomized transport plans via hierarchical fully probabilistic design},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2025.122365},
volume = {718},
year = {2025}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - An optimal randomized strategy for design of balanced, normalized mass transport plans is developed. It replaces—but specializes to—the deterministic, regularized optimal transport (OT) strategy, which yields only a certainty-equivalent plan. The incompletely specified—and therefore uncertain—transport plan is acknowledged to be a random process. Therefore, hierarchical fully probabilistic design (HFPD) is adopted, yielding an optimal hyperprior supported on the set of possible transport plans, and consistent with prior mean constraints on the marginals of the uncertain plan. This Bayesian resetting of the design problem for transport plans—which we call HFPD-OT—confers new opportunities. These include (i) a strategy for the generation of a random sample of joint transport plans; (ii) randomized marginal contracts for individual source-target pairs; and (iii) consistent measures of uncertainty in the plan and its contracts. An application in fair market matching is outlined, in which HFPD-OT enables the recruitment of a more diverse subset of contracts—than is possible in classical OT—into the delivery of an expected plan.
AU - Boufelja,Y S
AU - Quinn,A
AU - Shorten,R
DO - 10.1016/j.ins.2025.122365
PY - 2025///
SN - 0020-0255
TI - Randomized transport plans via hierarchical fully probabilistic design
T2 - Information Sciences
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2025.122365
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2025.122365
VL - 718
ER -
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