Uniform entropy bound for Ricci shrinkers with bounded curvature.
problem Bounding entropy for Ricci shrinkers with specific curvature constraints.
method Establishing uniform entropy bounds for simply connected Ricci shrinkers with a finite second homotopy group and uniform curvature bounds.
result Uniform entropy bound for simply connected Ricci shrinkers with a finite second homotopy group and uniform curvature bounds.
Uniform bounds derived for fully non-linear equations.
problem Bounding fully non-linear equations uniformly in background metrics.
method Auxiliary Monge-Ampère equations and entropy-like quantities.
result Uniform L∞ bounds for systems coupling fully non-linear equations to their linearizations. Ancient Ricci flows with bounded Nash entropy have uniform Sobolev inequalities.
problem Bounding Nash entropy in ancient Ricci flows.
method Uniformly bounded Nash entropy implies uniform bounds on the ν-functional, leading to uniform logarithmic and Sobolev inequalities.
result Uniform logarithmic and Sobolev inequalities on ancient Ricci flows with bounded Nash entropy.
In this paper, we develop the notion of entropy for uniform hypergraphs via tensor theory. We employ the probability distribution of the generalized singular values, calculated from the higher-order singular value decomposition of the Laplacian tensors, to fit into the Shannon entropy formula. We show that this tensor …
Proves convergence of gradient Ricci shrinkers with uniform bounds.
problem Compactness and energy concentration in gradient Ricci shrinkers.
method Bubble-tree convergence and local energy analysis.
result No energy concentrates in neck regions, leading to a local diffeomorphism finiteness theorem.
We prove a uniform version of the Tits alternative. As a consequence, we obtain uniform lower bounds for the Cheeger constant of Cayley grahs of finitely generated non virtually solvable linear groups in arbitrary characteristic. Also we show that the algebraic entropy of discrete subgroups of a given Lie group is unif…
We show that all closed 2-dimensional singularities for higher codimension mean curvature flow that cannot be perturbed away have uniform entropy bounds and lie in a linear subspace of small dimension. The entropy and dimension of the subspace are both ≤C(1+γ) for some universal constant C and genus γ. Th…
Uniform Sobolev inequality for Kähler metrics with entropy bound.
problem Establishing Sobolev inequalities for Kähler metrics with entropy bound.
method Uniform Sobolev inequality for Kähler metrics with entropy bound and no lower Ricci curvature bound.
result Derive various geometric estimates for Kähler-Einstein currents.
Entropy rigidity for Finsler flows but collapse for Reeb flows.
problem Entropy behavior of Reeb and Finsler flows on contact manifolds.
method Analysis of topological entropy for Reeb and Finsler flows.
result Uniform positive lower bound for Finsler flows but arbitrarily small topological entropy for Reeb flows.
Unified estimate for complex Monge-Ampère equations on Kähler manifolds.
problem Estimating solutions to complex Monge-Ampère equations on Kähler manifolds.
method Unified approach using PDE methods and entropy bounds to construct comparison metrics.
result Improves previous results on modulus of continuity, stability, and W1,1-estimates of Green's functions. Uniform bounds prove connection between Kähler metrics and RCD spaces.
problem Bounding Nash entropy and Calabi energy for Kähler metrics.
method Proving uniform Sobolev bounds for Kähler manifolds.
result Establishes connection to RCD spaces and provides examples.
The entropy-degree theorem applies to Alexandrov spaces with curvature constraints.
problem Geometric obstructions and volume bounds in singular spaces.
method Developed new degree theorem for Alexandrov spaces using integral currents.
result Entropy-volume minimization prevents metric singularities in Gromov-Hausdorff limits.
Entropy rigidity proven for 3D and higher convex projective manifolds.
problem Entropy rigidity for strictly convex projective manifolds.
method Uses techniques from Besson, Courtois, and Gallot's entropy rigidity theorem.
result Uniform lower bounds on volume for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimensions ≥ 3.
Study minimal volume entropy for free-by-cyclic groups and 2D right-angled Artin groups.
problem Characterize minimal volume entropy for aspherical simplicial complexes with these groups as fundamental groups.
method Algebraic and geometric characterization, using fiber π1-growth collapse and non-collapsing assumptions. result Provide bounds and criteria for minimal volume entropy in aspherical simplicial complexes.
Investigates properties of volume, entropy, and diameter in higher Teichmüller spaces.
problem Properties of volume, entropy, and diameter for representations in mSO(p,q+1). method Uniform lower bound on entropy times volume, upper bound on entropy, finiteness and compactness results.
result Entropy is bounded by p−1 for representations conjugate to mS(mO(p,1)imesmO(q)). New bounds for agnostic learning with average smoothness.
problem Distribution-free nonparametric regression with average smoothness.
method Distribution-free uniform convergence bounds and agnostic learning algorithm.
result Distribution-free uniform convergence bounds for average-smoothness classes in the agnostic setting.
Study Transformer layers under cross-entropy training using mean field control.
problem Understanding the behavior of Transformer layers in cross-entropy training.
method Continuous-depth mean field control analysis, treating depth as time and layer parameters as controls.
result Derivation of a Pontryagin condition for the limiting population problem, involving the softmax residual.
The paper studies empirical processes from nearest neighbors in regression.
problem Estimating conditional cumulative distribution functions and local linear regression.
method Uniform central limit theorem and non-asymptotic bound under local bracketing entropy and uniform entropy numbers.
result Gaussian limit of empirical process with simple covariance.
Proves uniform K-stability is open in Kähler cone.
problem Stability of Kähler metrics in complex geometry.
method Introduced new norm on test configurations and estimates for non-archimedean energy functionals.
result Uniform K-stability is an open condition in the Kähler cone.
We introduce two new functionals on Sasaki manifolds, inspired by the work of Perelman, which are monotonic along the Sasaki-Ricci flow. We relate their gradient flow, via diffeomorphisms preserving the foliated structure of the manifold, to the transverse Ricci flow. Finally, when the basic first Chern class is positi…
The paper proves rigidity results for Einstein manifolds with specific geometric constraints.
problem Understanding the rigidity of Einstein manifolds under bounded covering geometry.
method Analyzing Einstein manifolds with bounded covering geometry to prove rigidity results.
result Compact Einstein manifolds with specific geometric properties are isometric to space forms.
In this paper we prove a uniform estimate for the gradient of the Green function on a closed Riemann surface, independent of its conformal class, and we derive compactness results for immersions with L2-bounded second fundamental form and for riemannian surfaces of uniformly bounded gaussian curvature entropy.
New bounds show empirical EOT adapts to simpler measure.
problem Statistical performance of empirical EOT estimators.
method Novel statistical bounds, empirical process theory, dual formulation.
result Empirical EOT and its unregularized version follow lower complexity adaptation.
Ancient Ricci flows with asymptotic solitons have uniform bounds and inequalities.
problem Bounding and understanding ancient Ricci flows with asymptotic solitons.
method Analyzing asymptotic solitons, proving uniform bounds on Perelman's ν-functional, and showing Nash entropy bounds.
result Uniform bounds on Perelman's ν-functional and logarithmic/Sobolev inequalities for ancient solutions.
Paper proves integrability and entropy compactness for Kähler potentials with uniform log-log threshold.
problem Integrability and entropy compactness for Kähler potentials with specific density.
method Skoda-Zeriahi type integrability theorem and log-log threshold detection.
result Positivity of integrability threshold and entropy compactness for uniform log-log threshold.
Entropy regularization is used to get improved optimization performance in reinforcement learning tasks. A common form of regularization is to maximize policy entropy to avoid premature convergence and lead to more stochastic policies for exploration through action space. However, this does not ensure exploration in th…
New inequality links surface orthospectrum to boundary length.
problem Establishing a relationship between orthospectrum and boundary length for compact Riemannian surfaces.
method Analyzing compact Riemannian surfaces with a single closed geodesic, establishing a uniform lower bound on boundary length in terms of orthospectrum.
result A uniform lower bound on boundary length in terms of orthospectrum, akin to Basmajian's identity.
Kähler-Ricci flow on Kähler manifolds converges to negative Kodaira dimension
problem Convergence of scalar curvature in Kähler-Ricci flow
method Uniform μ-entropy or uniform Sobolev inequality result Scalar curvature converges to negative Kodaira dimension
We aim to develop off-policy DRL algorithms that not only exceed state-of-the-art performance but are also simple and minimalistic. For standard continuous control benchmarks, Soft Actor-Critic (SAC), which employs entropy maximization, currently provides state-of-the-art performance. We first demonstrate that the entr…
We compute the expected value of the Kullback-Leibler divergence to various fundamental statistical models with respect to canonical priors on the probability simplex. We obtain closed formulas for the expected model approximation errors, depending on the dimension of the models and the cardinalities of their sample sp…
In this note, we prove a uniform distance distortion estimate for Ricci flows with uniformly bounded scalar curvature, independent of the lower bound of the initial μ-entropy. Our basic principle tells that once correctly renormalized, the metric-measure quantities obey similar estimates as in the non-collapsing case…
Study shows uniform-time chaos propagation in mean field Langevin dynamics.
problem Understanding the convergence of marginal distributions in mean field dynamics.
method Assumed functional convexity of energy, used Lp-convergence and Wasserstein metrics. result Uniform-in-time propagation of chaos proved in both L2-Wasserstein and relative entropy. We discuss various characterizations of synthetic upper Ricci bounds for metric measure spaces in terms of heat flow, entropy and optimal transport. In particular, we present a characterization in terms of semiconcavity of the entropy along certain Wasserstein geodesics which is stable under convergence of mm-spaces. A…
Unified framework for uniform signal recovery in nonlinear GCS with 1-bit/quantized measurements.
problem Uniform recovery guarantees for nonlinear generative compressed sensing.
method Unified framework using generalized Lasso and Lipschitz approximation.
result Uniform recovery of all signals in the ball up to an error of ε using approximately O(k/ε^2) samples.
New method removes scalar curvature assumption in Ricci flow smoothing.
problem Uniform bounds on scalar curvature and other factors for Ricci flow.
method Quantitative short-time existence of Ricci flow without scalar curvature assumption.
result Ricci flow smoothing for measure space limits, Gromov-Hausdorff compactness, and topological rigidity results.
Stability result for a popular algorithm in optimal transport.
problem Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure in time and metric.
method Uniform stability analysis in the 1-Wasserstein metric.
result Quantitative stability result for entropy-regularized Optimal Transport and Schrödinger bridges.
We prove that, among metrics on a compact quotient of (H2)n (product of hyperbolic planes) of prescribed total volume, the product of hyperbolic metrics has minimal volume entropy.
Self-attention networks localize when eigenspectrum variance is small.
problem Self-attention mechanisms can lead to rank and entropy collapses, reducing model expressivity and trainability.
method Characterized attention localization using query-key eigenspectrum variance.
result Small eigenspectrum variance prevents both rank and entropy collapses, improving model performance.
Study ergodic properties of geodesic flows on specific manifolds without conjugate points.
problem Ergodic properties of geodesic flows on uniform visibility manifolds without conjugate points.
method Comprehensive study including geometric properties, entropy gap assumption, and symbolic approach.
result Geodesic flow is ergodic with respect to Liouville measure under certain conditions.
In signal analysis and synthesis, linear approximation theory considers a linear decomposition of any given signal in a set of atoms, collected into a so-called dictionary. Relevant sparse representations are obtained by relaxing the orthogonality condition of the atoms, yielding overcomplete dictionaries with an exten…
Study risk-sensitive market making with entropy regularization for better quote control.
problem Risk-sensitive market making with exponential utility and penalties.
method Entropy-regularized certainty-equivalent Bellman policies for discrete-time market dynamics.
result Proves convergence and performance bounds for entropy-regularized policies.
We analyze the Kozachenko--Leonenko (KL) nearest neighbor estimator for the differential entropy. We obtain the first uniform upper bound on its performance over Hölder balls on a torus without assuming any conditions on how close the density could be from zero. Accompanying a new minimax lower bound over the Hölder ba…
Softmax policy gradient methods converge at O(1/t) rate with constants depending on problem and initialization.
problem Understanding convergence rates of softmax policy gradient methods in tabular settings.
method Analysis of softmax policy gradient and entropy regularized policy gradient methods, using Łojasiewicz inequality and lower bounds.
result Entropy regularization improves convergence rate from O(1/t) to O(e−c⋅t). A closed four dimensional manifold cannot possess a non-flat Ricci soliton metric with arbitrarily small L2-norm of the curvature. In this paper, we localize this fact in the case of shrinking Ricci solitons by proving an ε-regularity theorem, thus confirming a conjecture of Cheeger-Tian. As applications…
In deep neural network, the cross-entropy loss function is commonly used for classification. Minimizing cross-entropy is equivalent to maximizing likelihood under assumptions of uniform feature and class distributions. It belongs to generative training criteria which does not directly discriminate correct class from co…
We study geometric properties of the Lagrangian self-shrinking tori in R4. When the area is bounded above uniformly, we prove that the entropy for the Lagrangian self-shrinking tori can only take finitely many values; this is done by deriving a Łojasiewicz-Simon type gradient inequality for the branched conf…
Entropy-based model for hierarchical learning from multiscale data.
problem Learning from data with auxiliary information and multiscale target functions.
method Entropy-based hierarchical learning model with multiscale entropies.
result Entropy-based model yields stronger guarantees than uniform convergence bounds.
The entropy models have been recently adopted in many studies to evaluate the distribution of the shear stress in circular channels. However, the uncertainty in their predictions and their reliability remains an open question. We present a novel method to evaluate the uncertainty of four popular entropy models, includi…