Exponential convergence rate for Iterative Markovian Fitting
Information Theory
2025-08-12 v2 Machine Learning
math.IT
Abstract
We consider the discrete-time Schr\"odinger bridge problem on a finite state space. Although it has been known that the Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) algorithm converges in Kullback-Leibler divergence to the ground truth solution, the speed of that convergence remained unquantified. In this work, we establish for the first time that IMF exhibits exponential convergence with an explicit contraction factor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.02770,
title = {Exponential convergence rate for Iterative Markovian Fitting},
author = {Kirill Sokolov and Alexander Korotin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02770},
year = {2025}
}