Review for NeurIPS paper: Sinkhorn Barycenter via Functional Gradient Descent
–Neural Information Processing Systems
Weaknesses: The constants in the bounds depend linearly on the dimension, although they depends exponentially on the regularization parameter. If Sinkhorn distance is thought as a proxy of the Wasserstein distance, this seems to be a hidden dependance on the dimension, since the regularization parameter plays the role of an interpolation between MMD and Wasserstein distances, and MMD distances are more blind to the dimension. This is not discussed in the paper. The results also have an exponential dependence on an assumed uniform upper bound on the cost. For the classical quadratic cost, this imply an exponential dependence on the dimension for the case of measures supported on [0,1] d for instance.
Neural Information Processing Systems
Jan-21-2025, 10:31:11 GMT
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