Inference for empirical Wasserstein distances on finite spaces

M Sommerfeld, A Munk - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The Wasserstein distance is an attractive tool for data analysis but statistical inference is
hindered by the lack of distributional limits. To overcome this obstacle, for probability …

Gradient flow and entropy inequalities for quantum Markov semigroups with detailed balance

EA Carlen, J Maas - Journal of Functional Analysis, 2017 - Elsevier
We study a class of ergodic quantum Markov semigroups on finite-dimensional unital C⁎-
algebras. These semigroups have a unique stationary state σ, and we are concerned with …

Kantorovich duality for general transport costs and applications

N Gozlan, C Roberto, PM Samson, P Tetali - Journal of Functional Analysis, 2017 - Elsevier
We introduce a general notion of transport cost that encompasses many costs used in the
literature (including the classical one and weak transport costs introduced by Talagrand and …

Geodesic convexity of the relative entropy in reversible Markov chains

A Mielke - Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential …, 2013 - Springer
We consider finite-dimensional, time-continuous Markov chains satisfying the detailed
balance condition as gradient systems with the relative entropy E as driving functional. The …

Housekeeping and excess entropy production for general nonlinear dynamics

K Yoshimura, A Kolchinsky, A Dechant, S Ito - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We propose a housekeeping/excess decomposition of entropy production for general
nonlinear dynamics in a discrete space, including chemical reaction networks and discrete …

An analog of the 2-Wasserstein metric in non-commutative probability under which the fermionic Fokker–Planck equation is gradient flow for the entropy

EA Carlen, J Maas - Communications in mathematical physics, 2014 - Springer
Let CC denote the Clifford algebra over R^ n R n, which is the von Neumann algebra
generated by n self-adjoint operators Q j, j= 1,…, n satisfying the canonical anticommutation …

Non-commutative calculus, optimal transport and functional inequalities in dissipative quantum systems

EA Carlen, J Maas - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2020 - Springer
We study dynamical optimal transport metrics between density matrices associated to
symmetric Dirichlet forms on finite-dimensional C^* C∗-algebras. Our setting covers …

Metric measure spaces and synthetic Ricci bounds: fundamental concepts and recent developments

KT Sturm - European Congress of Mathematics, 2023 - ems.press
Metric measure spaces with synthetic Ricci bounds have attracted great interest in recent
years, accompanied by spectacular breakthroughs and deep new insights. In this survey, I …

Mitigating over-smoothing and over-squashing using augmentations of Forman-Ricci curvature

L Fesser, M Weber - Learning on Graphs Conference, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully leveraged for
learning on graph-structured data across domains, several potential pitfalls have been …

Gradient structures and geodesic convexity for reaction–diffusion systems

M Liero, A Mielke - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We consider systems of reaction–diffusion equations as gradient systems with respect to an
entropy functional and a dissipation metric given in terms of a so-called Onsager operator …