Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: De Bortoli, Valentin, Desolneux, Agnès
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12922
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866915963207680000
author De Bortoli, Valentin
Desolneux, Agnès
author_facet De Bortoli, Valentin
Desolneux, Agnès
contents Laplace-type results characterize the limit of sequence of measures $(π_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon >0}$ with density w.r.t the Lebesgue measure $(\mathrm{d} π_\varepsilon / \mathrm{d} \mathrm{Leb})(x) \propto \exp[-U(x)/\varepsilon]$ when the temperature $\varepsilon>0$ converges to $0$. If a limiting distribution $π_0$ exists, it concentrates on the minimizers of the potential $U$. Classical results require the invertibility of the Hessian of $U$ in order to establish such asymptotics. In this work, we study the particular case of norm-like potentials $U$ and establish quantitative bounds between $π_\varepsilon$ and $π_0$ w.r.t. the Wasserstein distance of order $1$ under an invertibility condition of a generalized Jacobian. One key element of our proof is the use of geometric measure theory tools such as the coarea formula. We apply our results to the study of maximum entropy models (microcanonical/macrocanonical distributions) and to the convergence of the iterates of the Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) algorithm at low temperatures for non-convex minimization.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2110_12922
institution arXiv
publishDate 2021
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle On quantitative Laplace-type convergence results for some exponential probability measures, with two applications
De Bortoli, Valentin
Desolneux, Agnès
Probability
Machine Learning
Laplace-type results characterize the limit of sequence of measures $(π_\varepsilon)_{\varepsilon >0}$ with density w.r.t the Lebesgue measure $(\mathrm{d} π_\varepsilon / \mathrm{d} \mathrm{Leb})(x) \propto \exp[-U(x)/\varepsilon]$ when the temperature $\varepsilon>0$ converges to $0$. If a limiting distribution $π_0$ exists, it concentrates on the minimizers of the potential $U$. Classical results require the invertibility of the Hessian of $U$ in order to establish such asymptotics. In this work, we study the particular case of norm-like potentials $U$ and establish quantitative bounds between $π_\varepsilon$ and $π_0$ w.r.t. the Wasserstein distance of order $1$ under an invertibility condition of a generalized Jacobian. One key element of our proof is the use of geometric measure theory tools such as the coarea formula. We apply our results to the study of maximum entropy models (microcanonical/macrocanonical distributions) and to the convergence of the iterates of the Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) algorithm at low temperatures for non-convex minimization.
title On quantitative Laplace-type convergence results for some exponential probability measures, with two applications
topic Probability
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12922