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The Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem has become a fundamental tool in computational optimal transport and generative modeling. To address this problem, ideal methods such as Iterative Proportional Fitting and Iterative Markovian Fitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-27 Marta Gentiloni Silveri , Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus

The Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) procedure, which iteratively projects onto the space of Markov processes and the reciprocal class, successfully solves the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) problem. However, an efficient practical…

Recent advances in flow-based generative modelling have provided scalable methods for computing the Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) between distributions, a dynamic form of entropy-regularised Optimal Transport (OT) for the quadratic cost. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Samuel Howard , Peter Potaptchik , George Deligiannidis

Motivated by the success of Sinkhorn's algorithm for entropic optimal transport, we study convergence properties of iterative proportional fitting procedures (IPFP) used to solve more general information projection problems. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Stephan Eckstein , Aziz Lakhal

In this work, we deal with an iteration method for approximating a fixed point of a contraction mapping using the Mann's algorithm under functional random errors. We first show its almost complete convergence to the fixed point by mean of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Bahia Barache , Idir Arab , Abdelnasser Dahmani

The "Inertial Forward-Backward algorithm" (IFB) is a powerful tool for convex nonsmooth minimization problems, it gives the well known "fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm " (FISTA), which enjoys $O\left( {\frac{1}{{{k^2}}}}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Hongwei Liu , Ting Wang , Zexian Liu

In this paper, we derive a strong convergence rate of spatial finite difference approximations for both focusing and defocusing stochastic cubic Schr\"odinger equations driven by a multiplicative $Q$-Wiener process. Beyond the uniform…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Jianbo Cui , Jialin Hong , Zhihui Liu

Many natural dynamic processes -- such as in vivo cellular differentiation or disease progression -- can only be observed through the lens of static sample snapshots. While challenging, reconstructing their temporal evolution to decipher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Thomas Gravier , Thomas Boyer , Auguste Genovesio

We establish the uniform in time stability, w.r.t. the marginals, of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure, also known as Sinkhorn algorithm, used to solve entropy-regularised Optimal Transport problems. Our result is quantitative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-25 George Deligiannidis , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet

We develop time integration methods in low-rank representation that can adaptively adjust approximation ranks to achieve a prescribed accuracy, while ensuring that these ranks remain proportional to the corresponding best approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Markus Bachmayr , Matthieu Dolbeault , Polina Sachsenmaier

Iterative Fast Fourier Transform methods are useful for calculating the fields in composite materials and their macroscopic response. By iterating back and forth until convergence, the differential constraints are satisfied in Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Hervé Moulinec , Pierre Suquet , Graeme W. Milton

A well-known difficult problem regarding Metropolis-Hastings algorithms is to get sharp bounds on their convergence rates. Moreover, a fundamental but often overlooked problem in Markov chain theory is to study the convergence rates for…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Guanyang Wang

In this paper we propose a novel algorithm, factored value iteration (FVI), for the approximate solution of factored Markov decision processes (fMDPs). The traditional approximate value iteration algorithm is modified in two ways. For one,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-08-13 Istvan Szita , Andras Lorincz

We study the convergence rate of discretized Riemannian Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on sampling from distributions in the form of $e^{-f(x)}$ on a convex body $\mathcal{M}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We show that for distributions in the form of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Yunbum Kook , Yin Tat Lee , Ruoqi Shen , Santosh S. Vempala

We consider an inertial primal-dual fixed point algorithm (IPDFP) to compute the minimizations of the following Problem (1.1). This is a full splitting approach, in the sense that the nonsmooth functions are processed individually via their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Meng Wen , Yu-Chao Tang , Jigen Peng

We propose and analyze an accelerated iterative dual diagonal descent algorithm for the solution of linear inverse problems with general regularization and data-fit functions. In particular, we develop an inertial approach of which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Luca Calatroni , Guillaume Garrigos , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Markov games and robust MDPs are closely related models that involve computing a pair of saddle point policies. As part of the long-standing effort to develop efficient algorithms for these models, the Filar-Tolwinski (FT) algorithm has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Keith Badger , Jefferson Huang , Marek Petrik

We prove the convergence of greedy and randomized versions of Schwarz iterative methods for solving linear elliptic variational problems based on infinite space splittings of a Hilbert space. For the greedy case, we show a squared error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-02 Michael Griebel , Peter Oswald

In this article a unified approach to iterative soft-thresholding algorithms for the solution of linear operator equations in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces is presented. We formulate the algorithm in the framework of generalized…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Kristian Bredies , Dirk A. Lorenz

A class of linear kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with a non-trivial diffusion matrix and with periodic boundary conditions in the spatial variable is considered. After formulating the problem in a geometric setting, the question of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 Simone Calogero
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