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Distributional approximation is a fundamental problem in machine learning with numerous applications across all fields of science and engineering and beyond. The key challenge in most approximation methods is the need to tackle the…

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Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities are a fundamental class of inequalities that play an important role in information theory. They play a key role in establishing concentration inequalities and in obtaining quantitative estimates on the…

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We provide a new characterization of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality.

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This paper is devoted to stability results for the Gaussian logarithmic Sobolev inequality, with explicit stability constants.

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In this note, we derive a new logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the heat kernel on the Heisenberg group. The proof is inspired from the historical method of Leonard Gross with the Central Limit Theorem for a random walk. Here the non…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Michel Bonnefont , Djalil Chafaï , Ronan Herry

We study a filtered Lie splitting scheme for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We establish error estimates at low regularity by using discrete Bourgain spaces. This allows us to handle data in $H^s$ with $0<s<1$ overcoming the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Alexander Ostermann , Frédéric Rousset , Katharina Schratz

Stochastic iterative algorithms, including stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD), are widely utilized for optimization and sampling in large-scale and high-dimensional problems in machine…

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In a 2013 paper, the author showed that the convolution of a compactly supported measure on the real line with a Gaussian measure satisfies a logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI). In a 2014 paper, the author gave bounds for the optimal…

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This work presents the first systematic development of Stein's method for matrix distributions. We establish the basic essential ingredients of Stein's method for matrix normal approximation: we derive a generator-based Stein identity from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Robert E. Gaunt , Frédéric Ouimet , Donald Richards

We establish new Euclidean Sobolev logarithmic inequalities in the framework of fractional Sobolev spaces and their weighted version. Our approach relies on a interpolation inequality, which can be viewed as a fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Vivek Sahu

The Stein Variational Gradient Descent method is a variational inference method in statistics that has recently received a lot of attention. The method provides a deterministic approximation of the target distribution, by introducing a…

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In this paper we obtain logarithmic Hardy and Rellich inequalities on general Lie groups. In the case of graded groups, we also show their refinements using the homogeneous Sobolev norms. In fact, we derive a family of weighted logarithmic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Marianna Chatzakou , Aidyn Kassymov , Michael Ruzhansky

In this paper, we review recent results on stability and instability in logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, with a particular emphasis on strong norms. We consider several versions of these inequalities on the Euclidean space, for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Giovanni Brigati , Jean Dolbeault , Nikita Simonov

Stein discrepancies (SDs) monitor convergence and non-convergence in approximate inference when exact integration and sampling are intractable. However, the computation of a Stein discrepancy can be prohibitive if the Stein operator - often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-26 Jackson Gorham , Anant Raj , Lester Mackey

By proving an $L^2$-gradient estimate for the corresponding Galerkin approximations, the log-Harnack inequality is established for the semigroup associated to a class of stochastic Burgers equations. As applications, we derive the strong…

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The application of Stein's method for distributional approximation often involves so called Stein factors (also called 'magic factors') in the bound of the solutions to Stein equations. However, in some cases these factors contain…

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We prove logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on higher-dimensional bounded smooth domains based on novel Gagliardo-Nirenberg type interpolation inequalities. Moreover, we use them to address the long-time dynamics of some nonlinear nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Elie Abdo , Fizay-Noah Lee

In this paper we show a number of logarithmic inequalities on several classes of Lie groups: log-Sobolev inequalities on general Lie groups, log-Sobolev (weighted and unweighted), log-Gagliardo-Nirenberg and log-Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Marianna Chatzakou , Aidyn Kassymov , Michael Ruzhansky

In this note we bound the deficit in the logarithmic Sobolev Inequality and in the Talagrand transport-entropy Inequality for the Gaussian measure, in any dimension, by mean of a distance introduced by Bucur and Fragal\`a.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Filomena Feo , Maria Rosaria Posteraro , Cyril Roberto

We prove that two well-known measures of information are interrelated in interesting and useful ways when applied to nonequilibrium circumstances. A nontrivial form of the lower bound for the Fisher information measure is derived in…

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