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Unified framework for analyzing gradient flows of measures with exponential decay of entropy.
problem Analyzing exponential decay of entropy functionals in gradient flows of measures.
method Characterization of global exponential decay behaviors using Hellinger-Kantorovich geometry, shape-mass decomposition, and Polyak-Łojasiewicz-type inequalities.
result Unified theoretical framework for gradient flows with complete analysis of exponential decay behaviors.
Sharp inequality between TV and Hellinger distances for Gaussian mixtures.
problem Understanding the relationship between total variation and Hellinger distances for Gaussian mixtures.
method Established a general upper bound on Hellinger distance in terms of TV distance raised to a power, demonstrating sharpness with specific examples.
result The Hellinger distance between two Gaussian mixtures is bounded by the TV distance raised to a power 1−o(1), where o(1) is of order 1/loglog(1/TV).
The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.
We refine and generalize several interpolation inequalities bounding the Lp norm of a probability density with respect to the reference measure μ by its Sobolev norm and the Kantorovich distance to μ on a smooth weighted Riemannian manifold satisfying CD(0,∞) condition.
This paper presents a novel method to compute the exact Kantorovich-Wasserstein distance between a pair of d-dimensional histograms having n bins each. We prove that this problem is equivalent to an uncapacitated minimum cost flow problem on a (d+1)-partite graph with (d+1)n nodes and dndd+1 arcs,…
Classifiers trained on data sets possessing an imbalanced class distribution are known to exhibit poor generalisation performance. This is known as the imbalanced learning problem. The problem becomes particularly acute when we consider incremental classifiers operating on imbalanced data streams, especially when the l…
The subject of this article is the introduction of a new concept of well-posedness of Bayesian inverse problems. The conventional concept of (Lipschitz, Hellinger) well-posedness in [Stuart 2010, Acta Numerica 19, pp. 451-559] is difficult to verify in practice and may be inappropriate in some contexts. Our concept sim…
The paper establishes general results in Lorentzian optimal transport theory.
problem Establishing strong duality and optimality conditions in Lorentzian optimal transport.
method Providing non-trivial assumptions on measures, characterizing optimality, and proving regularity results.
result Regularity results for c-convex functions and (weak) Kantorovich potentials do not extend to the Lorentzian setting, but under suitable assumptions, they are locally semconvex.
In reinforcement learning (RL), temporal abstraction still remains as an important and unsolved problem. The options framework provided clues to temporal abstraction in the RL, and the option-critic architecture elegantly solved the two problems of finding options and learning RL agents in an end-to-end manner. However…
We show that the square Hellinger distance between two Bayesian networks on the same directed graph, G, is subadditive with respect to the neighborhoods of G. Namely, if P and Q are the probability distributions defined by two Bayesian networks on the same DAG, our inequality states that the square Hellinger di…
This paper deals with forward performances of HARA type. Precisely, for a market model in which stock price processes are modeled by a locally bounded d-dimensional semimartingale, we elaborate a complete and explicit characterization for this type of forward utilities. Furthermore, the optimal portfolios for each of…
In this work, we show the intrinsic relations between optimal transportation and convex geometry, especially the variational approach to solve Alexandrov problem: constructing a convex polytope with prescribed face normals and volumes. This leads to a geometric interpretation to generative models, and leads to a novel …