Convergence Rates for Regularized Optimal Transport via Quantization

Abstract

We study the convergence of divergence-regularized optimal transport as the regularization parameter vanishes. Sharp rates for general divergences including relative entropy or $L^p$ regularization, general transport costs and multi-marginal problems are obtained. A novel methodology using quantization and martingale couplings is suitable for non-compact marginals and achieves, in particular, the sharp leading-order term of entropically regularized 2-Wasserstein distance for all marginals with finite $(2+\delta )$-moment.