Preservation of Log-Concavity and Convergence of Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flows

The paper investigates Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) gradient flows for sampling from probability distributions known only up to a normalisation constant. It demonstrates that for strongly log-concave targets satisfying certain curvature conditions, WFR flows preserve strong log-concavity—unlike pure Wasserstein flows, which only do so in the Gaussian case. Leveraging this property, the authors derive explicit non-asymptotic convergence rates for the symmetrised Kullback-Leibler divergence, showing an additive decomposition into Wasserstein and Fisher‑Rao contributions and eliminating the need for a warm start.

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