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Stochastic Gradient Descent over P2

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) admits diffusion approximations that replace the complicated randomness of stochastic gradients by Gaussian noise, providing a powerful tool for understanding its dynamics and long-time behavior. We investigate whether an analogous approximation principle holds for optimization over probability measures, where the objective is a functional defined on the Wasserstein space P2. The nonlinear geometry and infinite-dimensional nature of P2 prevent a direct extension of the classical Euclidean theory. Using Lions differentiability, we lift the problem to a linear H

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