Infoot: Information maximizing optimal transport

CY Chuang, S Jegelka… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Optimal transport aligns samples across distributions by minimizing the transportation cost
between them, eg, the geometric distances. Yet, it ignores coherence structure in the data …

Beyond linear response: Equivalence between thermodynamic geometry and optimal transport

A Zhong, MR DeWeese - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A fundamental result of thermodynamic geometry is that the optimal, minimal-work protocol
that drives a nonequilibrium system between two thermodynamic states in the slow-driving …

Towards understanding the dynamics of gaussian-stein variational gradient descent

T Liu, P Ghosal… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) is a nonparametric particle-based
deterministic sampling algorithm. Despite its wide usage, understanding the theoretical …

Geometric thermodynamics for the Fokker–Planck equation: stochastic thermodynamic links between information geometry and optimal transport

S Ito - Information Geometry, 2024 - Springer
We propose a geometric theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, namely geometric
thermodynamics, using our recent developments of differential-geometric aspects of entropy …

-statistics approach to optimal transport waveform inversion

SLEF da Silva, G Kaniadakis - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Extracting physical parameters that cannot be directly measured from an observed data set
remains a great challenge in several fields of science and physics. In many of these …

Bregman-Wasserstein divergence: geometry and applications

C Rankin, TKL Wong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05833, 2023 - arxiv.org
Consider the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problem where the cost function is given
by a Bregman divergence. The associated transport cost, which we call the Bregman …

Scaling limits of the Wasserstein information matrix on Gaussian mixture models

W Li, J Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12997, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider the Wasserstein metric on the Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), which is
defined as the pullback of the full Wasserstein metric on the space of smooth probability …

Information geometry for the working information theorist

KV Mishra, MA Kumar, TKL Wong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03884, 2023 - arxiv.org
Information geometry is a study of statistical manifolds, that is, spaces of probability
distributions from a geometric perspective. Its classical information-theoretic applications …

A geometry in the set of solutions to ill-posed linear problems with box constraints: Applications to probabilities on discrete sets

H Gzyl - Journal of Applied Analysis, 2024 - degruyter.com
When there are no constraints upon the solutions of the equation 𝑨⁢ 𝝃= 𝒚, where 𝑨 is a K×
N-matrix, 𝝃∈ ℝ N and 𝒚∈ ℝ K a given vector, the description of the set of solutions as 𝒚 …

Conditional Variable Flow Matching: Transforming Conditional Densities with Amortized Conditional Optimal Transport

AP Generale, AE Robertson, SR Kalidindi - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Forecasting stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems under the influence of conditioning
variables is a fundamental challenge repeatedly encountered across the biological and …