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In probability and statistics, a probability distribution assigns a probability to each measurable subset of the possible outcomes of a random experiment, survey, or procedure of statistical inference.

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Mathematics of GANs (generative adversarial networks)

I recommend some papers by Lars Mescheder: The paper The Numerics of GANs formalizes GANs as two-player games and analyzes their training dynamics, the paper Which Training Methods for GANs do actual …
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Updating Geman and Geman (1984) on image restoration

Given that the paper has accumulated a stunning 21.850 citations at Google scholar to this date and 487 are from 2018 the work is clearly influential (zbMATH lists 913 citations and 17 from 2018, MATH …
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Minimizing KL divergence: the asymmetry, when will the solution be the same?

I don't have a definite answer, but here is something to continue with: Formulate the optimization problems with constraints as $$ \mathrm{argmin}_{F(q)=0} D(q || p),\qquad \mathrm{argmin}_{F(q)=0} D …
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Numerical approximation to the Wasserstein metric?

Yes, there are. First note that the Wasserstein metric is, after discretization, the solution of a linear program (LP) that can be fed into any LP solver. Moreover, there are specialized algorithms, …
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