Marginal flows of non-entropic weak Schrödinger bridges

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Autores principales: Hernández, Camilo, Tangpi, Ludovic
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author Hernández, Camilo
Tangpi, Ludovic
author_facet Hernández, Camilo
Tangpi, Ludovic
contents This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal constraints are imposed in a weak sense. We establish well-posedness and a convex dual formulation, together with a dual existence result and explicit structural characterizations of primal and dual optimizers. Specifically, the optimal path measure admits an explicit density relative to a reference diffusion, generalizing the classical Schr{ö}dinger system. In the case of zero transport cost, which corresponds to a non-entropic dynamic Schr{ö}dinger problem, we further characterize the flow of time marginals of the optimal bridge, recovering known results in the entropic setting and providing new descriptions for non-entropic divergences, including the $χ^2$-divergence
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spellingShingle Marginal flows of non-entropic weak Schrödinger bridges
Hernández, Camilo
Tangpi, Ludovic
Probability
Optimization and Control
This paper introduces a dynamic formulation of divergence-regularized optimal transport with weak targets on the path space. In our formulation, the classical relative entropy penalty is replaced by a general convex divergence, and terminal constraints are imposed in a weak sense. We establish well-posedness and a convex dual formulation, together with a dual existence result and explicit structural characterizations of primal and dual optimizers. Specifically, the optimal path measure admits an explicit density relative to a reference diffusion, generalizing the classical Schr{ö}dinger system. In the case of zero transport cost, which corresponds to a non-entropic dynamic Schr{ö}dinger problem, we further characterize the flow of time marginals of the optimal bridge, recovering known results in the entropic setting and providing new descriptions for non-entropic divergences, including the $χ^2$-divergence
title Marginal flows of non-entropic weak Schrödinger bridges
topic Probability
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21261