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Differential Properties of Sinkhorn Approximation for Learning with Wasserstein Distance
Abstract : Applications of optimal transport have recently gained remarkable attention thanks to the computational advantages of entropic regularization. However, in most situations the Sinkhorn approximation of the Wasserstein distance is replaced by a regularized version that is less accurate but easy to differentiate. In this work we characterize the differential properties of the original Sinkhorn distance, proving that it enjoys the same smoothness as its regularized version and we explicitly provide an efficient algorithm to compute its gradient. We show that this result benefits both theory and applications: on one hand, high order smoothness confers statistical guarantees to learning with Wasserstein approximations. On the other hand, the gradient formula allows us to efficiently solve learning and optimization problems in practice. Promising preliminary experiments complement our analysis.
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01958887
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Submitted on : Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 12:10:15 AM
Last modification on : Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 10:08:51 AM
Long-term archiving on: : Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 3:29:03 PM
Contributor : Alessandro Rudi Connect in order to contact the contributor
Submitted on : Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 12:10:15 AM
Last modification on : Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 10:08:51 AM
Long-term archiving on: : Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 3:29:03 PM