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Wasserstein gradient flow for optimal probability measure decomposition

Optimization and Control 2024-06-04 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We examine the infinite-dimensional optimization problem of finding a decomposition of a probability measure into K probability sub-measures to minimize specific loss functions inspired by applications in clustering and user grouping. We analytically explore the structures of the support of optimal sub-measures and introduce algorithms based on Wasserstein gradient flow, demonstrating their convergence. Numerical results illustrate the implementability of our algorithms and provide further insights.

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@article{arxiv.2406.00914,
  title  = {Wasserstein gradient flow for optimal probability measure decomposition},
  author = {Jiangze Han and Christopher Thomas Ryan and Xin T. Tong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.00914},
  year   = {2024}
}
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