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Various properties of isoperimetric, functional, Transport-Entropy and concentration inequalities are studied on a Riemannian manifold equipped with a measure, whose generalized Ricci curvature is bounded from below. First, stability of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Emanuel Milman

We develop a quantitative contraction framework for Schrodinger and Sinkhorn bridges based on transportation-cost inequalities and Riccati matrix difference equations. Our approach combines logarithmic Sobolev and Talagrand-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pierre Del Moral

We give a transport proof of a discrete version of the displacement convexity of entropy on integers (Z), and get, as a consequence, two discrete forms of the Pr{\'e}kopa-Leindler Inequality : the Four Functions Theorem of Ahlswede and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-13 Nathael Gozlan , Cyril Roberto , Paul-Marie Samson , Prasad Tetali

In this essay, we discuss the notion of optimal transport on geodesic measure spaces and the associated (2-)Wasserstein distance. We then examine displacement convexity of the entropy functional on the space of probability measures. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Otis Chodosh

The entropy power inequality (EPI) and the Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BLI) are fundamental inequalities concerning the differential entropies of linear transformations of random vectors. The EPI provides lower bounds for the differential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Venkat Anantharam , Varun Jog , Chandra Nair

The entropy power inequality for independent random vectors is a foundational result of information theory, with deep connections to probability and geometric functional analysis. Several extensions of the entropy power inequality have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

We study the statistical properties of the entropic optimal (self) transport problem for smooth probability measures. We provide an accurate description of the limit distribution for entropic (self-)potentials and plans as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Gilles Mordant

We prove stability estimates for the Shannon-Stam inequality (also known as the entropy-power inequality) for log-concave random vectors in terms of entropy and transportation distance. In particular, we give the first stability estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ronen Eldan , Dan Mikulincer

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport formulation of the full Einstein equations of general relativity, linking the (Ricci) curvature of a space-time with the cosmological constant and the energy-momentum tensor. Such an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Andrea Mondino , Stefan Suhr

We prove a new extremal inequality, motivated by the vector Gaussian broadcast channel and the distributed source coding with a single quadratic distortion constraint problems. As a corollary, this inequality yields a generalization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Tie Liu , Pramod Viswanath

This paper presents different approaches, based on functional inequalities, to study the speed of convergence in total variation distance of ergodic diffusion processes with initial law satisfying a given integrability condition. To this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Cattiaux , Arnaud Guillin

This paper is devoted to results on the Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality, or Onofri inequality for brevity. In dimension two this inequality plays a role similar to the Sobolev inequality in higher dimensions. After justifying this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Gaspard Jankowiak

Optimal transportation distances are a fundamental family of parameterized distances for histograms. Despite their appealing theoretical properties, excellent performance in retrieval tasks and intuitive formulation, their computation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Marco Cuturi

The paper establishes the equality condition in the I-MMSE proof of the entropy power inequality (EPI). This is done by establishing an exact expression for the deficit between the two sides of the EPI. Interestingly, a necessary condition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Alex Dytso , Ronit Bustin , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

The distance and divergence of the probability measures play a central role in statistics, machine learning, and many other related fields. The Wasserstein distance has received much attention in recent years because of its distinctions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Qijun Tong , Kei Kobayashi

Understanding the character of electronic excitations is important in computational and reaction mechanistic studies, but their classification from simulations remains an open problem. Distances based on optimal transport have proven very…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Annina Z. Lieberherr , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Klaas J. H. Giesbertz

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

We develop a full theory for the new class of Optimal Entropy-Transport problems between nonnegative and finite Radon measures in general topological spaces. They arise quite naturally by relaxing the marginal constraints typical of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

It is known that a quadratic transportation-information inequality $\mathrm{W_2I}$ interpolates between the Talagrand's inequality $\mathrm{W_2H}$ and the log-Sobolev inequality (LSI for short). The aim of the present paper is threefold:…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-08 Yuan Liu

This paper exploit the equivalence between the Schr\"odinger Bridge problem and the entropy penalized optimal transport in order to find a different approach to the duality, in the spirit of optimal transport. This approach results in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Simone Di Marino , Augusto Gerolin
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