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It is well-known that plug-in statistical estimation of optimal transport suffers from the curse of dimensionality. Despite recent efforts to improve the rate of estimation with the smoothness of the problem, the computational complexity of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Adrien Vacher , Boris Muzellec , Alessandro Rudi , Francis Bach , Francois-Xavier Vialard

Strong and general entropic and geometric Heisenberg limits are obtained, for estimates of multiparameter unitary displacements in quantum metrology, such as the estimation of a magnetic field from the induced rotation of a probe state in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Michael J. W. Hall

Entropic uncertainty relations play a fundamental role in quantum information theory. However, determining optimal (tight) entropic uncertainty relations for general observables remains a formidable challenge and has so far been achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Ma-Cheng Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment are powerful frameworks for geometrically driven matching of probability distributions, yet their large-scale usage is hampered by high statistical and computational costs.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Tao Wang , Ziv Goldfeld

The fundamental inequality of Guivarc'h relates the entropy and the drift of random walks on groups. It is strict if and only if the random walk does not behave like the uniform measure on balls. We prove that, in any nonelementary…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Sébastien Gouëzel , Frédéric Mathéus , François Maucourant

Working in the setting of i.i.d. last-passage percolation on $\mathbb{R}^D$ with no assumptions on the underlying edge\hyp{}weight distribution, we arrive at the notion of grid entropy - a Subadditive Ergodic Theorem limit of the entropies…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Alexandru Gatea

Information theory on a time-discrete setting in the framework of time series analysis is generalized to the time-continuous case. Considerations of the Roessler and Lorenz dynamics as well as the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process yield for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-04 Detlef Holstein

Entropic optimal transport -- the optimal transport problem regularized by KL diver\-gence -- is highly successful in statistical applications. Thanks to the smoothness of the entropic coupling, its sample complexity avoids the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Alberto González-Sanz , Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz

This paper addresses the Optimal Transport problem, which is regularized by the square of Euclidean $\ell_2$-norm. It offers theoretical guarantees regarding the iteration complexities of the Sinkhorn--Knopp algorithm, Accelerated Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Dmitry A. Pasechnyuk , Michael Persiianov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We study stability of optimizers and convergence of Sinkhorn's algorithm for the entropic optimal transport problem. In the special case of the quadratic cost, our stability bounds imply that if one of the two entropic potentials is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Alberto Chiarini , Giovanni Conforti , Giacomo Greco , Luca Tamanini

We present results on the estimation and evaluation of success probabilities for ordinal optimisation over uncountable sets (such as subsets of $\mathbb{R}^{d}$). Our formulation invokes an assumption of a Gaussian copula model, and we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Robert Chin , Jonathan E. Rowe , Iman Shames , Chris Manzie , Dragan Nešić

The main topic of this thesis is the proof of two fundamental entropic inequalities for quantum Gaussian channels. Quantum Gaussian channels model the propagation of electromagnetic waves through optical fibers and free space in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 Giacomo De Palma

Optimal transport (OT) is a popular tool in machine learning to compare probability measures geometrically, but it comes with substantial computational burden. Linear programming algorithms for computing OT distances scale cubically in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Gaspard Beugnot , Aude Genevay , Kristjan Greenewald , Justin Solomon

Given a set of discrete probability distributions, the minimum entropy coupling is the minimum entropy joint distribution that has the input distributions as its marginals. This has immediate relevance to tasks such as entropic causal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Spencer Compton , Dmitriy Katz , Benjamin Qi , Kristjan Greenewald , Murat Kocaoglu

Classical entropy regularization is poorly suited to continuous-time martingale transport, since relative entropy between diffusion laws typically forces their volatility characteristics to coincide. We introduce a specific-entropy…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Francois Buet-Golfouse , Anaïs Després , Zhenjie Ren , Xin Zhang

This paper extends the standard chaining technique to prove excess risk upper bounds for empirical risk minimization with random design settings even if the magnitude of the noise and the estimates is unbounded. The bound applies to many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-08 Gábor Balázs , András György , Csaba Szepesvári

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects to provide ultra-precise estimates of physical variables for use in advanced technologies, such as frequency calibration of atomic clocks, gravitational waves detection, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 J. Calsamiglia , B. Gendra , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

Matching a source to a target probability measure is often solved by instantiating a linear optimal transport (OT) problem, parameterized by a ground cost function that quantifies discrepancy between points. When these measures live in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Othmane Sebbouh , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré

The major problem in information theoretic analysis of neural responses and other biological data is the reliable estimation of entropy--like quantities from small samples. We apply a recently introduced Bayesian entropy estimator to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Ilya Nemenman , William Bialek , Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck

We prove an upper bound on the expected $\ell_p$ injective norm of sums of subgaussian random tensors. Our proof is simple and does not rely on any explicit geometric or chaining arguments. Instead, it follows from a simple application of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Ishaq Aden-Ali