Weak limits of entropy regularized Optimal Transport; potentials, plans and divergences

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Hauptverfasser: Gonzalez-Sanz, Alberto, Loubes, Jean-Michel, Niles-Weed, Jonathan
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author Gonzalez-Sanz, Alberto
Loubes, Jean-Michel
Niles-Weed, Jonathan
author_facet Gonzalez-Sanz, Alberto
Loubes, Jean-Michel
Niles-Weed, Jonathan
contents This work deals with the asymptotic distribution of both potentials and couplings of entropic regularized optimal transport for compactly supported probabilities in $\R^d$. We first provide the central limit theorem of the Sinkhorn potentials -- the solutions of the dual problem -- as a Gaussian process in $\Cs$. Then we obtain the weak limits of the couplings -- the solutions of the primal problem -- evaluated on integrable functions, proving a conjecture of \cite{ChaosDecom}. In both cases, their limit is a real Gaussian random variable. Finally we consider the weak limit of the entropic Sinkhorn divergence under both assumptions $H_0:\ {\rm P}={\rm Q}$ or $H_1:\ {\rm P}\neq{\rm Q}$. Under $H_0$ the limit is a quadratic form applied to a Gaussian process in a Sobolev space, while under $H_1$, the limit is Gaussian. We provide also a different characterisation of the limit under $H_0$ in terms of an infinite sum of an i.i.d. sequence of standard Gaussian random variables. Such results enable statistical inference based on entropic regularized optimal transport.
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spellingShingle Weak limits of entropy regularized Optimal Transport; potentials, plans and divergences
Gonzalez-Sanz, Alberto
Loubes, Jean-Michel
Niles-Weed, Jonathan
Probability
Statistics Theory
This work deals with the asymptotic distribution of both potentials and couplings of entropic regularized optimal transport for compactly supported probabilities in $\R^d$. We first provide the central limit theorem of the Sinkhorn potentials -- the solutions of the dual problem -- as a Gaussian process in $\Cs$. Then we obtain the weak limits of the couplings -- the solutions of the primal problem -- evaluated on integrable functions, proving a conjecture of \cite{ChaosDecom}. In both cases, their limit is a real Gaussian random variable. Finally we consider the weak limit of the entropic Sinkhorn divergence under both assumptions $H_0:\ {\rm P}={\rm Q}$ or $H_1:\ {\rm P}\neq{\rm Q}$. Under $H_0$ the limit is a quadratic form applied to a Gaussian process in a Sobolev space, while under $H_1$, the limit is Gaussian. We provide also a different characterisation of the limit under $H_0$ in terms of an infinite sum of an i.i.d. sequence of standard Gaussian random variables. Such results enable statistical inference based on entropic regularized optimal transport.
title Weak limits of entropy regularized Optimal Transport; potentials, plans and divergences
topic Probability
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07427