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In this paper, we show a large deviation principle for certain sequences of static Schr\"{o}dinger bridges, typically motivated by a scale-parameter decreasing towards zero, extending existing large deviation results to cover a wider range…

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The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the weakly nonlinear regime with random Gaussian fields as initial data is considered. The problem is set on the torus in any dimension greater than two. A conjecture in statistical physics is that…

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We study the convergence of entropically regularized optimal transport to optimal transport. The main result is concerned with the convergence of the associated optimizers and takes the form of a large deviations principle quantifying the…

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We show non-asymptotic exponential convergence of Sinkhorn iterates to the Schr\"odinger potentials, solutions of the quadratic Entropic Optimal Transport problem on $\mathbb{R}^ d$. Our results hold under mild assumptions on the marginal…

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We propose and study a system of Schr\"odinger's problems and functional equations in probability theory. More precisely, we consider a system of variational problems of relative entropies for probability measures on a Euclidean space with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Toshio Mikami , Jin Feng

In this paper we determine quantitative stability bounds for the Hessian of entropic potentials, \ie, the dual solution to the entropic optimal transport problem. To the authors' knowledge this is the first work addressing this second-order…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Giacomo Greco , Luca Tamanini

We review recent results concerning the exponential behaviour of transition probabilities across a gap in the adiabatic limit of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. They range from an exponential estimate in quite general situations…

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The Schr\"odinger bridge problem seeks the optimal stochastic process that connects two given probability distributions with minimal energy modification. While the Sinkhorn algorithm is widely used to solve the static optimal transport…

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We consider the problem to identify the most likely flow in phase space, of (inertial) particles under stochastic forcing, that is in agreement with spatial (marginal) distributions that are specified at a set of points in time. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Yongxin Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Luigia Ripani

Entropic optimal transport problems are regularized versions of optimal transport problems. These models play an increasingly important role in machine learning and generative modelling. For finite spaces, these problems are commonly solved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Pierre Del Moral , Joaquín Miguez

The Schr\"odinger bridge problem is concerned with finding a stochastic dynamical system bridging two marginal distributions that minimises a certain transportation cost. This problem, which represents a generalisation of optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kirill Tamogashev , Nikolay Malkin

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework in which Quantum Mechanics is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. In ED the dynamics of the probability distribution is driven by entropy subject to constraints that are codified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Ariel Caticha

We propose a method to exactly generate bridge run-and-tumble trajectories that are constrained to start at the origin with a given velocity and to return to the origin after a fixed time with another given velocity. The method extends the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-22 Benjamin De Bruyne , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

It is shown that the Schrodinger equation can be cast in the form of two coupled real conservation equations, in Euclidean spacetime in the free case and in a five-dimensional Eisenhart geometry in the presence of an external potential.…

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We propose an approximate solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation using the method of stationary states combined with a variational matrix method for finding the energies and eigenstates. We illustrate the effectiveness of the…

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We study stochastic density control between Gaussian-mixture endpoint distributions under Brownian prior dynamics. Since the direct Schr\"odinger bridge between Gaussian mixtures is generally not available in closed form, we introduce a…

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We study generalizations of the Schr\"odinger problem in statistical mechanics in two directions: when the density is constrained at more than two times, and when the joint law of the initial and final positions for the particles is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Aymeric Baradat , Christian Léonard

We investigate the martingale Schr\"odinger bridge, recently introduced by Nutz and Wiesel as a distinguished martingale transport plan between two probability measures in convex order. We show that this construction extends naturally to…

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The problem of reconciling a prior probability law on paths with data was introduced by E. Schr\"odinger in 1931/32. It represents an early formulation of a maximum likelihood problem. This specific formulation can also be seen as the…

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