Deniz Akyildiz

@odakyildiz.bsky.social

assoc prof of stats at Imperial College London https://odakyildiz.com

Here's how the gradient flow for minimizing KL(pi, target) looks under the Fisher-Rao metric. I thought some probability mass would be disappearing on the left and appearing on the right (i.e. teleportation), like a geodesic under the same metric, but I was very wrong... What's the right intuition?

If anyone is thinking of registering for this, I understand that there are still some spaces available, but the room this event is taking place in has a limited capacity which is likely to be reached... so to avoid disappointment it would be safer to register sooner rather than later ;-).

Adam Johansen@adamjohansen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Registration is now open for the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning at rss.org.uk/training-eve.... Date: Monday 24 March 2025, 10.00AM - 5.00PM Location: The Alan Turing Institute