Reweighted information inequalities
Information Theory
2026-03-16 v1 math.IT
Probability
Abstract
We establish a variant of the log-Sobolev and transport-information inequalities for mixture distributions. If a probability measure can be decomposed into components that individually satisfy such inequalities, then any measure close to in relative Fisher information is close in relative entropy or transport distance to a reweighted version of with the same mixture components but possibly different weights. This provides a user-friendly interpretation of Fisher information bounds for non-log-concave measures and explains phenomena observed in the analysis of Langevin Monte Carlo for multimodal distributions.
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@article{arxiv.2603.13135,
title = {Reweighted information inequalities},
author = {Jonathan Niles-Weed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.13135},
year = {2026}
}