Matthew S. Zhang

2papers

2 Papers

1.2PRNov 3, 2025
Stability of the Kim--Milman flow map

Sinho Chewi, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, Matthew S. Zhang

In this short note, we characterize stability of the Kim--Milman flow map -- also known as the probability flow ODE -- with respect to variations in the target measure. Rather than the Wasserstein distance, we show that stability holds with respect to the relative Fisher information

4.3PROct 6, 2025
Perspectives on Stochastic Localization

Bobby Shi, Kevin Tian, Matthew S. Zhang

We survey different perspectives on the stochastic localization process of [Eld13], a powerful construction that has had many exciting recent applications in high-dimensional probability and algorithm design. Unlike prior surveys on this topic, our focus is on giving a self-contained presentation of all known alternative constructions of Eldan's stochastic localization, with an emphasis on connections between different constructions. Our hope is that by collecting these perspectives, some of which had primarily arisen within a particular community (e.g., probability theory, theoretical computer science, information theory, or machine learning), we can broaden the accessibility of stochastic localization, and ease its future use.