The generalized Schr\"odinger bridge on a graph moves mass between two distributions while charging a cost for the states visited. It has been approached by learning the rates of a controlled continuous-time Markov chain, with a temporal-difference penalty that restores the cost. A state cost folds into the reference p...
As an alternative to the standard geometric analyses, we give an exact, information-theoretic analysis of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants. We show that a preconditioned SGD step is the posterior-mean update of a Gaussian Bayes model, and that its one-step regret splits into an intrinsic-time cost and...
In a deviation event, the empirical measure of $n$ independent draws lands in a set of distributions. The exponent of its probability splits, at every $n$, into two nonnegative terms. The first is the rate: $n$ times the relative entropy, from the population, of the distribution of a typical draw under the event. The s...
Accounting for information flow on the path space of trajectories of a nonnegative martingale yields exact variational identities for it, even at arbitrary random times. This recovers the widely used classical concentration inequalities, from Ville to PAC-Bayes, and measures what each one discards. The tail a bound con...
A two-player zero-sum repeated game between a learner and nature whose value identity generates Bayesian updating and an exact accounting of exponential-weights regret at once is given, and supplies the comparator-class variational form that a wide class of concentration phenomena share.
Akshay Balsubramani· 0 citations
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