Entropic regularisation and Optimal Martingale Transport

Jean-David Benamou (INRIA Paris)

Feb 10. 2026, 09:30 — 10:05

The Entropic regularization of the classical quadratic optimal transport control problem (aka Schr¨odinger problem) can be

extended first to solve numerically drift controlled diffusion processes Benamou et al. (2018).

Then in a second part he showed how time discretisation of the relative entropy can be used

to characterize the (linear) time scaling under which the relative entropy between diffusion

processes becomes a divergence between the diffusion coefficients of its arguments instead of

blowing up when they are singular. This object is also known as “Specific Relative Entropy”.

Then classical Entropic optimal numerical methods, like Sinkhorn, are generalised to diffusion

controlled diffusion processes.

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Associated Event:
Probabilistic Mass Transport - from Schrödinger to Stochastic Analysis (Workshop)
Organizer(s):
Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zurich)
Julio Backhoff (U of Vienna)
Daniel Bartl (U of Vienna)
Mathias Beiglböck (U of Vienna)
Sigrid Källblad (KTH Stockholm)
Walter Schachermayer (U of Vienna)