arXiv Machine Learning By Eshed Gal, Samy Wu Fung, Eldad Haber

Probabilistic Gaussian Homotopy: A Probability-Space Continuation Framework for Nonconvex Optimization

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arXiv:2603. 13546v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Probabilistic Gaussian Homotopy (PGH), a probability-space continuation framework for nonconvex optimization.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

Power Homotopy for Zeroth-Order Non-Convex Optimizations

arXiv:2511. 13592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The existing method of GS-PowerOpt solves the non-convex optimization problem of the form $\max_{\boldsymbol{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d} f(\boldsymbol{x})$ through maximizing a Gaussian-smoothed surrogate $F_{N,\sigma}(\boldsymbol{\mu}) = \mathbb{E}_{\boldsymbol{x}\sim\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu},\sigma^2 I_d)}[e^{N f(\boldsymbol{x})}]$.

By Chen Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Variational Entropic Optimal Transport

arXiv:2602. 02241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Entropic optimal transport (EOT) in continuous spaces with quadratic cost is a classical tool for solving the domain translation problem.

By Roman Dyachenko, Nikita Gushchin, Kirill Sokolov, Petr Mokrov, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin