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| author | Gunasingam, Madhu Wong, Ting-Kam Leonard |
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| contents | We continue the study of adapted optimal transport in the discrete-time Gaussian setting. To this end, we introduce a space of filtered Gaussian processes where both the randomness and the flow of information are driven by a Gaussian white noise. On this space, the adapted $2$-Wasserstein distance (${AW}_2$) admits a variational representation as a constrained orthogonal Procrustes problem between Cholesky factors. Furthermore, the resulting quotient space is the ${AW}_2$-completion of the space of Gaussian distributions on the path space. We also characterize explicitly the ${AW}_2$-projections onto the subspaces of Gaussian martingales. Next, we analyze the adapted Brenier coupling -- a multivariate generalization of the Knothe--Rosenblatt coupling that serves as a myopic solution to the adapted transport problem, and compute its transport cost. Utilizing a Gaussian random matrix framework, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of transport costs as the time horizon grows; notably, we establish that the transport costs of all Gaussian bicausal couplings are asymptotically equivalent, whereas the classical Bures--Wasserstein distance is strictly smaller. Finally, we demonstrate that the adapted analogue of Gelbrich's lower bound fails in general, and we identify a sufficient martingale difference condition under which the bound is recovered. |
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| spellingShingle | Adapted Optimal Transport between Filtered Gaussian Processes Gunasingam, Madhu Wong, Ting-Kam Leonard Probability Optimization and Control We continue the study of adapted optimal transport in the discrete-time Gaussian setting. To this end, we introduce a space of filtered Gaussian processes where both the randomness and the flow of information are driven by a Gaussian white noise. On this space, the adapted $2$-Wasserstein distance (${AW}_2$) admits a variational representation as a constrained orthogonal Procrustes problem between Cholesky factors. Furthermore, the resulting quotient space is the ${AW}_2$-completion of the space of Gaussian distributions on the path space. We also characterize explicitly the ${AW}_2$-projections onto the subspaces of Gaussian martingales. Next, we analyze the adapted Brenier coupling -- a multivariate generalization of the Knothe--Rosenblatt coupling that serves as a myopic solution to the adapted transport problem, and compute its transport cost. Utilizing a Gaussian random matrix framework, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of transport costs as the time horizon grows; notably, we establish that the transport costs of all Gaussian bicausal couplings are asymptotically equivalent, whereas the classical Bures--Wasserstein distance is strictly smaller. Finally, we demonstrate that the adapted analogue of Gelbrich's lower bound fails in general, and we identify a sufficient martingale difference condition under which the bound is recovered. |
| title | Adapted Optimal Transport between Filtered Gaussian Processes |
| topic | Probability Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22159 |