arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Statistical Inference for Adversarial Training: Central Limit Theorems via Optimal Transport

The paper rigorously analyzes the statistical and learning-theoretic properties of adversarial training models for classification, focusing on empirical optimal partial transport. It establishes two central limit theorems—one centered at the expected empirical value and another at the population value with smoothing—by leveraging the uniqueness of optimal potentials across various optimal transport formulations and empirical process theory. In the binary setting, the authors prove uniqueness of the optimal potential via a connection to multi-marginal optimal transport, and as additional results they derive stability of the saddle point, sample complexity, and concentration bounds for generalization error.

By Kim Jakwang, Kwon Dohyun