Session III.3 - Computational Optimal Transport
Tuesday, June 20, 17:00 ~ 17:30
Convergence rate of entropy-regularized multi-marginal optimal transport costs
Luca Nenna
(LMO) Université Paris-Saclay, France - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We investigate the convergence rate of multi-marginal optimal transport costs that are regularized with the Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, as the noise parameter $\varepsilon$ tends to 0. We establish lower and upper bounds on the difference with the unregularized cost of the form $C\varepsilon\ log(1/\varepsilon) + O(\varepsilon)$ for some explicit dimensional constants $C$ depending on the marginals and on the ground cost, but not on the optimal transport plans themselves. Upper bounds are obtained for Lipschitz costs or costs with Lipschitz gradient, and lower bounds for $\mathcal C^2$ costs satisfying some signature condition on the mixed second derivatives that may include degenerate costs, thus generalizing results previously obtained by Carlier, Pegon, Tamanini and Eckstein, Nutz in the 2-marginal case and for non-degenerate costs. We obtain in particular matching bounds in some typical situations where the optimal plan is deterministic, like in the case of Wasserstein barycenters.
Joint work with Paul PEGON (Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, France).