Convergence Analysis of the Wasserstein Proximal Algorithm beyond Geodesic Convexity
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| author | Zhu, Shuailong Chen, Xiaohui |
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| contents | The proximal algorithm is a powerful tool to minimize nonlinear and nonsmooth functionals in a general metric space. Motivated by the recent progress in studying the training dynamics of the noisy gradient descent algorithm on two-layer neural networks in the mean-field regime, we provide in this paper a simple and self-contained analysis for the convergence of the general-purpose Wasserstein proximal algorithm without assuming geodesic convexity of the objective functional. Under a natural Wasserstein analog of the Euclidean Polyak-Łojasiewicz inequality, we establish that the proximal algorithm achieves an unbiased and linear convergence rate. Our convergence rate improves upon existing rates of the proximal algorithm for solving Wasserstein gradient flows under strong geodesic convexity. We also extend our analysis to the inexact proximal algorithm for geodesically semiconvex objectives. In our numerical experiments, proximal training demonstrates a faster convergence rate than the noisy gradient descent algorithm on mean-field neural networks. |
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| spellingShingle | Convergence Analysis of the Wasserstein Proximal Algorithm beyond Geodesic Convexity Zhu, Shuailong Chen, Xiaohui Optimization and Control Machine Learning The proximal algorithm is a powerful tool to minimize nonlinear and nonsmooth functionals in a general metric space. Motivated by the recent progress in studying the training dynamics of the noisy gradient descent algorithm on two-layer neural networks in the mean-field regime, we provide in this paper a simple and self-contained analysis for the convergence of the general-purpose Wasserstein proximal algorithm without assuming geodesic convexity of the objective functional. Under a natural Wasserstein analog of the Euclidean Polyak-Łojasiewicz inequality, we establish that the proximal algorithm achieves an unbiased and linear convergence rate. Our convergence rate improves upon existing rates of the proximal algorithm for solving Wasserstein gradient flows under strong geodesic convexity. We also extend our analysis to the inexact proximal algorithm for geodesically semiconvex objectives. In our numerical experiments, proximal training demonstrates a faster convergence rate than the noisy gradient descent algorithm on mean-field neural networks. |
| title | Convergence Analysis of the Wasserstein Proximal Algorithm beyond Geodesic Convexity |
| topic | Optimization and Control Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14993 |