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Exponential convergence rate for Iterative Markovian Fitting

Published: August 4, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.02770v2

By: Kirill Sokolov, Alexander Korotin

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Makes computer learning faster and more reliable.

We consider the discrete-time Schr\"odinger bridge problem on a finite state space. Although it has been known that the Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) algorithm converges in Kullback-Leibler divergence to the ground truth solution, the speed of that convergence remained unquantified. In this work, we establish for the first time that IMF exhibits exponential convergence with an explicit contraction factor.

Page Count
2 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Information Theory