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Main Authors: Shivakumar, Sachin, Bondar, Georgiy A., Khan, Gabriel, Halder, Abhishek
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13372
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author Shivakumar, Sachin
Bondar, Georgiy A.
Khan, Gabriel
Halder, Abhishek
author_facet Shivakumar, Sachin
Bondar, Georgiy A.
Khan, Gabriel
Halder, Abhishek
contents For a given ground cost, approximating the Monge optimal transport map that pushes forward a given probability measure onto another has become a staple in several modern machine learning algorithms. The fourth-order Ma-Trudinger-Wang (MTW) tensor associated with this ground cost function provides a notion of curvature in optimal transport. The non-negativity of this tensor plays a crucial role for establishing continuity for the Monge optimal transport map. It is, however, generally difficult to analytically verify this condition for any given ground cost. To expand the class of cost functions for which MTW non-negativity can be verified, we propose a provably correct computational approach which provides certificates of non-negativity for the MTW tensor using Sum-of-Squares (SOS) programming. We further show that our SOS technique can also be used to compute an inner approximation of the region where MTW non-negativity holds. We apply our proposed SOS programming method to several practical ground cost functions to approximate the regions of regularity of their corresponding optimal transport maps.
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spellingShingle Sum-of-Squares Programming for Ma-Trudinger-Wang Regularity of Optimal Transport Maps
Shivakumar, Sachin
Bondar, Georgiy A.
Khan, Gabriel
Halder, Abhishek
Optimization and Control
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Differential Geometry
For a given ground cost, approximating the Monge optimal transport map that pushes forward a given probability measure onto another has become a staple in several modern machine learning algorithms. The fourth-order Ma-Trudinger-Wang (MTW) tensor associated with this ground cost function provides a notion of curvature in optimal transport. The non-negativity of this tensor plays a crucial role for establishing continuity for the Monge optimal transport map. It is, however, generally difficult to analytically verify this condition for any given ground cost. To expand the class of cost functions for which MTW non-negativity can be verified, we propose a provably correct computational approach which provides certificates of non-negativity for the MTW tensor using Sum-of-Squares (SOS) programming. We further show that our SOS technique can also be used to compute an inner approximation of the region where MTW non-negativity holds. We apply our proposed SOS programming method to several practical ground cost functions to approximate the regions of regularity of their corresponding optimal transport maps.
title Sum-of-Squares Programming for Ma-Trudinger-Wang Regularity of Optimal Transport Maps
topic Optimization and Control
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13372