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The goal of this expository article is to present and compare two dual methods that have been proposed independently for computing solutions of the discrete or semi-discrete instances of optimal transport.
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Mérigot, Q. (2013). A Comparison of Two Dual Methods for Discrete Optimal Transport. In: Nielsen, F., Barbaresco, F. (eds) Geometric Science of Information. GSI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40020-9_42
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