Sharp local sparsity of regularized optimal transport

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Autori principali: González-Sanz, Alberto, Gvalani, Rishabh S., Koch, Lukas
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author González-Sanz, Alberto
Gvalani, Rishabh S.
Koch, Lukas
author_facet González-Sanz, Alberto
Gvalani, Rishabh S.
Koch, Lukas
contents In recent years, the use of entropy-regularized optimal transport with $L^p$-type entropies has become increasingly popular. In this setting, the solutions are sparse, in the sense that the support of the regularized optimal coupling, $\mathrm{supp}(π_\varepsilon)$, shrinks to the support of the original optimal transport problem as $\varepsilon \to 0$. The main open question concerns the rate of this convergence. In this paper, we obtain sharp local results away from the boundary. We prove that the supports $\mathrm{supp}(π_\varepsilon(\cdot \mid x))$ of the conditional measures, $π_\varepsilon(\cdot \mid x)$, behave like balls of radius $\varepsilon^\frac 1 {d(p-1)+2}$. This allows us to show that the regularized potentials are uniformly strongly convex and to derive the rate of convergence of these potentials toward their unregularized limit. Our results generalize the results of (González-Sanz and Nutz, SIAM J.~Math.~Anal.) and (Wiesel and Xu, Ibid.) to the multivariate case and beyond the case of self-transport.
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spellingShingle Sharp local sparsity of regularized optimal transport
González-Sanz, Alberto
Gvalani, Rishabh S.
Koch, Lukas
Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
Probability
Statistics Theory
In recent years, the use of entropy-regularized optimal transport with $L^p$-type entropies has become increasingly popular. In this setting, the solutions are sparse, in the sense that the support of the regularized optimal coupling, $\mathrm{supp}(π_\varepsilon)$, shrinks to the support of the original optimal transport problem as $\varepsilon \to 0$. The main open question concerns the rate of this convergence. In this paper, we obtain sharp local results away from the boundary. We prove that the supports $\mathrm{supp}(π_\varepsilon(\cdot \mid x))$ of the conditional measures, $π_\varepsilon(\cdot \mid x)$, behave like balls of radius $\varepsilon^\frac 1 {d(p-1)+2}$. This allows us to show that the regularized potentials are uniformly strongly convex and to derive the rate of convergence of these potentials toward their unregularized limit. Our results generalize the results of (González-Sanz and Nutz, SIAM J.~Math.~Anal.) and (Wiesel and Xu, Ibid.) to the multivariate case and beyond the case of self-transport.
title Sharp local sparsity of regularized optimal transport
topic Analysis of PDEs
Numerical Analysis
Probability
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00843