arXiv Machine Learning By Peiwen Jiang, Takuo Matsubara, Minh-Ngoc Tran

Bures-Wasserstein Importance-Weighted Evidence Lower Bound: Exposition and Applications

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arXiv:2602. 04272v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Importance-Weighted Evidence Lower Bound (IW-ELBO) has emerged as an effective objective for variational inference (VI), tightening the standard ELBO and mitigating the mode-seeking behaviour.

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Linear convergence of proximal descent schemes on the Wasserstein space

arXiv:2411. 15067v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate proximal descent methods, inspired by the minimizing movement scheme introduced by Jordan, Kinderlehrer and Otto, for optimizing entropy-regularized functionals on the Wasserstein space.

By Razvan-Andrei Lascu, Mateusz B. Majka, David \v{S}i\v{s}ka, {\L}ukasz Szpruch