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48 results for Entropic Regularization

This paper explores how entropic regularization improves Wasserstein estimators' performance.

problem Improving the approximation and estimation properties of Wasserstein estimators.
method Entropic regularization of optimal transport costs to smooth Wasserstein estimators.
result Entropic regularization can achieve comparable statistical performance to un-regularized estimators at lower computational cost.

Study entropic regularization of Gaussian measures and processes on Hilbert space.

problem Regularizing 2-Wasserstein distance for infinite-dimensional Gaussian measures and processes.
method Minimum Mutual Information property, closed form formulas, Fréchet differentiability, Sinkhorn barycenter equation.
result Entropic 2-Wasserstein distance and Sinkhorn divergence are Fréchet differentiable in Hilbert space.

Improved neural framework for scaling entropic MOT with significant computational gains.

problem High computational overhead in multimarginal optimal transport.
method Neural Entropic MOT (NEMOT) using mini-batch training to reduce complexity.
result Significant speedups and feasibility improvements for multimarginal data.

A new method for barycenter of probability measures using entropic optimal transport.

problem Finding a weighted average of probability distributions.
method Doubly regularized Wasserstein barycenters with entropic optimal transport.
result The new formulation is debiased and has a smooth density, leading to efficient estimation and optimization.

Study of Gaussian distributions using entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and inner product Gromov-Wasserstein.

problem Optimal transportation between Gaussian distributions with different dimensions.
method Entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and inner product Gromov-Wasserstein, with closed-form expressions and von Neumann's trace inequality.
result Closed-form expressions for the entropic IGW and its unbalanced variant between Gaussian distributions.

The paper analyzes stability and convergence rates of entropic and Sinkhorn potentials.

problem Stability and convergence rates of entropic and Sinkhorn potentials.
method Semiconcavity properties of entropic potentials and Schrödinger bridges.
result Exponential convergence rates for gradient and Hessian of Sinkhorn iterates.

We consider the entropic regularization of discretized optimal transport and propose to solve its optimality conditions via a logarithmic Newton iteration. We show a quadratic convergence rate and validate numerically that the method compares favorably with the more commonly used Sinkhorn--Knopp algorithm for small reg…

2017-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

DRAG decreases regularization to accelerate semi-discrete OT convergence.

problem Mitigating bias in semi-discrete OT problems with entropic regularization.
method DRAG: Decreasing Regularization Averaged Gradient, a stochastic gradient descent algorithm.
result DRAG achieves unbiased O(1/t)\mathcal{O}(1/t) sample and iteration complexity for OT cost and potential estimation, and O(1/t)\mathcal{O}(1/\sqrt{t}) rate for OT map.

New method corrects bias in estimating entropic risk for better decision-making.

problem Underestimation of entropic risk when data are limited.
method Parametric bootstrap procedure to overestimate entropic risk.
result Corrected method provides better risk estimates, leading to improved decision-making.

Study shows how optimal transport behaves in higher dimensions.

problem Characterizing optimal transport in higher dimensions with Euclidean distance.
method Investigates the small regularization limit of entropic optimal transport.
result The limiting transport plan is supported on transport rays and uniquely minimizes a relative entropy functional.

New algorithm improves OT map estimation for semi-discrete settings.

problem Improving estimation of OT maps in semi-discrete settings.
method Stochastic Gradient Descent with adaptive entropic regularization and averaging acceleration.
result Achieves nearly minimax rate of O(t1)\mathcal{O}(t^{-1}) for OT map estimation.

New algorithm for computing Wasserstein barycenters with guarantees.

problem Computing Wasserstein barycenters with varying regularization strengths.
method Damped Sinkhorn iterations followed by exact maximization/minimization steps.
result First non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for approximating Wasserstein barycenters.

Accelerates optimal transport computation by 10x with spectral insights.

problem Exponential slow-down of convergence in Entropic Optimal Transport as regularization weakens.
method Spectral insights and spectral warm-start strategy to mitigate convergence issues.
result Faster convergence compared to the reference method Sinkhorn algorithm.

Regularized policies are robust to adversarial rewards.

problem Understanding the effects of regularization on policy exploration and robustness.
method Using Fenchel duality to derive the dual problem of the regularized RL objective, showing the optimal policy is robust to adversarial rewards.
result Regularized policies are optimal for a reinforcement learning problem under adversarial reward conditions.

New stability bounds for Sinkhorn's algorithm in entropic optimal transport.

problem Stability and convergence of Sinkhorn's algorithm for entropic optimal transport.
method Semiconcavity approach to analyze stability and convergence.
result Exponential convergence of Sinkhorn's algorithm under semiconcavity conditions.

This paper shows how to estimate distances in latent space of random graphs using entropic OT.

problem Estimating distances between groups of nodes in latent space of random graphs.
method Entropic Optimal Transport (OT) with stability results for perturbations of the cost matrix.
result Consistent estimation of entropic OT distances between groups of nodes in latent space.

Entropic regularization is quickly emerging as a new standard in optimal transport (OT). It enables to cast the OT computation as a differentiable and unconstrained convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved using the Sinkhorn algorithm. However, entropy keeps the transportation plan strictly positive…

2017-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This work extends entropic optimal transport to non-product reference couplings, focusing on Gaussian cases.

problem Finding a diffuse coupling between two measures with non-product reference couplings.
method Reduction of the entropic optimal transport problem to a matrix optimization problem.
result Complete description of the solution for non-product reference couplings, including primal and dual variables.

E-ROBOT improves robust statistics and ML via Schrödinger bridge theory.

problem Statistical and machine learning tasks in high dimensions.
method Entropic-regularized Robust Optimal Transport (E-ROBOT) framework.
result E-ROBOT avoids the curse of dimensionality with O(n1/2)\mathcal{O}(n^{-1/2}) sample complexity.

A new model corrects inhomogeneity in Optimal Transport with Boundary.

problem Inhomogeneity in UROT models for Optimal Transport with Boundary.
method Proposed a modified entropic regularization term to make UROT models homogeneous.
result Homogeneous UROT model preserves properties of standard UROT while correcting inhomogeneity.

A new method for faster estimation of Wasserstein distance using Sinkhorn divergence.

problem Estimating the squared Wasserstein distance between probability distributions.
method Proposes a new estimator based on the Sinkhorn divergence with debiasing terms, and analyzes its sample complexity and computational efficiency.
result The proposed estimator allows higher regularization levels, leading to improved computational complexity and speedup in practice.

New algorithm for estimating multivariate quantiles using stochastic optimal transport.

problem Estimating multivariate quantiles from data.
method Stochastic algorithm for entropic optimal transport in Banach spaces, using Fourier coefficients.
result Almost sure convergence of the stochastic algorithm in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces.

A new method for efficient inference and model selection in SBMs using OT.

problem Efficient inference and model selection in stochastic block models.
method Interpreting MLVI as srGW with entropic regularization, then unregularizing for sparse solutions, and adding a sparsity-promoting regularizer.
result The method consistently recovers SBM parameters and selects the number of clusters in finite samples.

New bounds for optimal transport using Gaussian processes and rate-distortion functions.

problem Finding bounds for entropic optimal transport with mutual information constraints.
method Lifting technique to construct a Gaussian process and applying the majorizing measure theorem.
result Maximum expected inner product is equivalent to a truncated integral involving the rate-distortion function.

This paper refines the Gaussian Sinkhorn algorithm for general multivariate models.

problem Finite-dimensional solutions for general Gaussian multivariate models.
method Recursive formulation of the Sinkhorn algorithm for Gaussian models, including closed form expressions of entropic transport maps and Schrödinger bridges.
result Refined convergence analysis of Gaussian Sinkhorn algorithms.

New initialization methods speed up Sinkhorn algorithm for OT problems.

problem Improving runtime of the Sinkhorn algorithm for optimal transport problems.
method Data-dependent initializers for Sinkhorn algorithm, based on closed-form solutions for specific settings.
result Data-dependent initializers result in dramatic speed-ups without affecting differentiability.

We provide a computational complexity analysis for the Sinkhorn algorithm that solves the entropic regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem between two measures of possibly different masses with at most nn components. We show that the complexity of the Sinkhorn algorithm for finding an ε\varepsilon-appr…

2020-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗