3 papers
math.PR2026
The Wasserstein cost of Importance Sampling
Simon Coste, Michael Goldman
Importance sampling (IS) consists in biasing samples from a distribution towards another distribution . Concretely, given samples from , the IS measure is $$\hat{g}…
math.AP2026
Young's law for a nonlocal isoperimetric model of charged capillarity droplets
Michael Goldman, Matteo Novaga, Adriano Prade
We study a variational problem modeling equilibrium configurations of charged liquid droplets resting on a surface under a convexity constraint. In the two-dimensional case with Co…
math.AP2024
An exterior optimal transport problem
Jules Candau-Tilh, Michael Goldman, Benoît Merlet
This paper deals with a variant of the optimal transportation problem. Given f L 1 (R d , [0, 1]) and a cost function c C(R d x R d) of the form c(x, y) = k(y -- x), we…