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Exponential families and mixture families are parametric probability models that can be geometrically studied as smooth statistical manifolds with respect to any statistical divergence like the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Frank Nielsen , Gaëtan Hadjeres

Bregman divergences play a pivotal role in statistics, machine learning and computational information geometry. Particularly in the context of machine learning, they are central to clustering, exponential families, parameter estimation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Russell Tsuchida , Frank Nielsen

Classic subdifferentials in variational analysis may fail to fully represent the Bregman proximal operator in the absence of convexity. In this paper, we fill this gap by introducing the left and right \emph{Bregman level proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Ziyuan Wang , Andreas Themelis

The Bregman divergence (Bregman distance, Bregman measure of distance) is a certain useful substitute for a distance, obtained from a well-chosen function (the "Bregman function"). Bregman functions and divergences have been extensively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro

Bregman divergences are a class of distance-like comparison functions which play fundamental roles in optimization, statistics, and information theory. One important property of Bregman divergences is that they cause two useful formulations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Philip S. Chodrow

Bregman divergences play a central role in the design and analysis of a range of machine learning algorithms. This paper explores the use of Bregman divergences to establish reductions between such algorithms and their analyses. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Richard Nock , Aditya Krishna Menon , Cheng Soon Ong

In information geometry, generalized exponential families and statistical manifolds with curvature are under active investigation in recent years. In this paper we consider the statistical manifold induced by a logarithmic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Zhixu Tao , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

By analogy to the terminology of curved exponential families in statistics, we define curved Bregman divergences as Bregman divergences restricted to non-affine parameter subspaces and sub-dimensional Bregman divergences when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Frank Nielsen

The paper introduces scaled Bregman distances of probability distributions which admit non-uniform contributions of observed events. They are introduced in a general form covering not only the distances of discrete and continuous stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Wolfgang Stummer , Igor Vajda

A class of distortions termed functional Bregman divergences is defined, which includes squared error and relative entropy. A functional Bregman divergence acts on functions or distributions, and generalizes the standard Bregman divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 B. A. Frigyik , S. Srivastava , M. R. Gupta

We introduce MAGNET, an open-source Python library designed for mesh agglomeration in both two- and three-dimensions, based on employing Graph Neural Networks (GNN). MAGNET serves as a comprehensive solution for training a variety of GNN…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Caldana , Ilario Mazzieri , Andrea Re Fraschini

Classical linear metric learning methods have recently been extended along two distinct lines: deep metric learning methods for learning embeddings of the data using neural networks, and Bregman divergence learning approaches for extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Kubra Cilingir , Rachel Manzelli , Brian Kulis

Calibration weighting is a fundamental technique in survey sampling and data integration for incorporating auxiliary information and improving efficiency of estimators. Classical calibration methods are typically formulated through distance…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Jae Kwang Kim , Yonghyun Kwon , Yumou Qiu

We consider the space of $w$-mixtures which is defined as the set of finite statistical mixtures sharing the same prescribed component distributions closed under convex combinations. The information geometry induced by the Bregman generator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

We provide a proximal average with repect to a $1$-coercive Legendre function. In the sense of Bregman distance, the Bregman envelope of the proximal average is a convex combination of Bregman envelopes of individual functions. The Bregman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Xianfu Wang , Heinz H. Bauschke

In this article, we define a doubling procedure for the bialgebra of specified Feynman graphs introduced in a previous paper \cite {DMB}. This is the vector space generated by the pairs $(\bar \Gamma, \bar \gamma)$ where $\bar \Gamma$ is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Mohamed Belhaj Mohamed

We propose a novel framework for the regularised inversion of deep neural networks. The framework is based on the authors' recent work on training feed-forward neural networks without the differentiation of activation functions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Xiaoyu Wang , Martin Benning

This work proposes the Bregman-Tweedie classification model and analyzes the domain structure of the extended exponential function, an extension of the classic generalized exponential function with additional scaling parameter, and related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Hyenkyun Woo

We systematically study the local single-valuedness of the Bregman proximal mapping and local smoothness of the Bregman--Moreau envelope of a nonconvex function under relative prox-regularity - an extension of prox-regularity - which was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Emanuel Laude , Peter Ochs , Daniel Cremers

This work considers an Inertial version of Bregman Proximal Gradient algorithm (IBPG) for minimizing the sum of two single-valued functions in finite dimension. We suppose that one of the functions is proper, closed, and convex but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Jean-Jacques Godeme
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