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20162024
most citedTowards a stationary Monge-Kantorovich dynamics: the Physarum Polycephalum experience

39 citations · 135 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

math.NA2024

Network Inpainting via Optimal Transport

Enrico Facca, Jan Martin Nordbotten, Erik Andreas Hanson

In this work, we present a novel tool for reconstructing networks from corrupted images. The reconstructed network is the result of a minimization problem that has a misfit term wi…

math.NA2023

Computing the L1 optimal transport density: a FEM approach

Federico Piazzon, Enrico Facca, Mario Putti

The optimal transport density is the unique solution of the Monge-Kantorovich equations. It has been recently characterized also as the unique minimizer of t…

math.NA2022

Efficient preconditioners for solving dynamical optimal transport via interior point methods

Enrico Facca, Gabriele Todeschi, Andrea Natale +1

In this paper we address the numerical solution of the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamical form, the so-called Benamou-Brenier formulation. When solved using inter…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 4 cited

Community Detection in networks by Dynamical Optimal Transport Formulation

Daniela Leite, Diego Baptista, Abdullahi Ibrahim +2

Detecting communities in networks is important in various domains of applications. While a variety of methods exists to perform this task, recent efforts propose Optimal Transport…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 8 cited

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

Alessandro Lonardi, Enrico Facca, Mario Putti +1

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 b…

math.NA2021★ 1 cited

Numerical Solution of the -Optimal Transport Problem on Surfaces

Luca Berti, Enrico Facca, Mario Putti

In this article we study the numerical solution of the -Optimal Transport Problem on 2D surfaces embedded in , via the DMK formulation introduced in [FaccaCardinPutti:201…

math.NA2021

Computing the Cut Locus of a Riemannian Manifold via Optimal Transport

Enrico Facca, Luca Berti, Francesco Fassó +1

In this paper, we give a new characterization of the cut locus of a point on a compact Riemannian manifold as the zero set of the optimal transport density solution of the Monge-Ka…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 16 cited

Designing optimal networks for multi-commodity transport problem

Alessandro Lonardi, Enrico Facca, Mario Putti +1

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 liter…

math.NA2020

Fast Iterative Solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on Graphs

Enrico Facca, Michele Benzi

In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal so…

cs.DS2020

Physarum-Inspired Multi-Commodity Flow Dynamics

Vincenzo Bonifaci, Enrico Facca, Frederic Folz +6

In wet-lab experiments, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum has demonstrated its ability to solve shortest path problems and to design efficient networks. For the shortest path pr…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 16 cited

Network extraction by routing optimization

Diego Baptista, Daniela Leite, Enrico Facca +2

Routing optimization is a relevant problem in many contexts. Solving directly this type of optimization problem is often computationally unfeasible. Recent studies suggest that one…

math.AP2019

Transport Energy

Enrico Facca, Federico Piazzon

We introduce the \emph{transport energy} functional (a variant of the Bouchitté-Buttazzo-Seppecher shape optimization functional) and we prove that its unique minimize…

math.DS2019★ 5 cited

Convergence of the Non-Uniform Directed Physarum Model

Enrico Facca, Andreas Karrenbauer, Pavel Kolev +1

The directed Physarum dynamics is known to solve positive linear programs: minimize subject to and for a positive cost vector . The directed Physarum…

math.NA2018★ 7 cited

Physarum Dynamics and Optimal Transport for Basis Pursuit

Enrico Facca, Franco Cardin, Mario Putti

We study the connections between Physarum Dynamics and Dynamic Monge Kantorovich (DMK) Optimal Transport algorithms for the solution of Basis Pursuit problems. We show the equivale…

math.NA2018

Branching structures emerging from a continuous optimal transport model

Enrico Facca, Franco Cardin, Mario Putti

Recently a Dynamic-Monge-Kantorovich formulation of the PDE-based -optimal transport problem was presented. The model considers a diffusion equation enforcing the balance of t…

math.NA2017★ 39 cited

Numerical Solution of Monge-Kantorovich Equations via a dynamic formulation

Enrico Facca, Sara Daneri, Franco Cardin +1

We propose a biologically inspired dynamic model for the numerical solution of the -PDE based optimal transportation model.

math.NA2016★ 39 cited

Towards a stationary Monge-Kantorovich dynamics: the Physarum Polycephalum experience

Enrico Facca, Franco Cardin, Mario Putti

In this work we study and expand a model describing the dynamics of a unicellular slime mold, Physarum Polycephalum (PP), which was proposed to simulate the ability of PP to find t…