Caffarelli Estimates under Lipschitz Perturbations

arXiv:2609.04052 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 4, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper establishes a dimension-free stability principle for quadratic optimal transport: if a Gaussian target density is perturbed by a globally L-Lipschitz log-density term, its Brenier map remains globally Lipschitz even without convexity or semiconvexity of the perturbation. This can be transferred to latent-variable generators by parameterizing the generator as the gradient of a convex potential and controlling the Lipschitz constant of the target log-density perturbation. The resulting bound is conservative and grows exponentially in L squared, so its most practical use is as a stability certificate or adaptive Jacobian regularizer rather than as a hard architectural constraint.

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Lipschitz-Perturbation Brenier Latent Adapter

Replace an unconstrained latent-to-data map in a small generative model with a learned Brenier map T equal to the gradient of a convex potential, transporting a Gaussian latent distribution toward a density proportional to exp(-B) times the Gaussian density. Constrain B to be globally L-Lipschitz and use the resulting dimension-free Jacobian ceiling as an adaptive stability target. This should reduce pathological local expansion without requiring B itself to be convex or its Hessian to be…

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Paper: Caffarelli Estimates under Lipschitz Perturbations arXiv:2609.04052