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New DC programming method optimizes functionals in Wasserstein space · 2 sources tracked

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Researchers have developed a new method for optimizing non-convex functionals in Wasserstein space by adapting the Difference-of-Convex (DC) programming approach. This technique, applied to functionals like Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and Energy Distance (ED), aims to improve the convergence and stability of optimization algorithms. Empirical results suggest that DC decompositions offer faster and more reliable convergence compared to standard Wasserstein gradient descent for these objectives. AI

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Cl\'ement Bonet, Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski, Youssef Mroueh ·

    Difference of Convex Programming in the Wasserstein Space with Applications to MMD Optimization

    arXiv:2606.27767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimizing functionals over the space of probability measures is now ubiquitous in machine learning. A widely used approach is to perform the optimization directly over the Wasserstein space, but many objective functionals of practi…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Youssef Mroueh ·

    Difference of Convex Programming in the Wasserstein Space with Applications to MMD Optimization

    Optimizing functionals over the space of probability measures is now ubiquitous in machine learning. A widely used approach is to perform the optimization directly over the Wasserstein space, but many objective functionals of practical interest are non-convex along Wasserstein ge…

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