Continuum Limit of Lipschitz Learning on Graphs

DOI10.1007/S10208-022-09557-9arXiv2012.03772MaRDI QIDQ6355474FDOQ6355474

Authors: Tim Roith, Leon Bungert 

Publication date: 7 December 2020

Abstract: Tackling semi-supervised learning problems with graph-based methods has become a trend in recent years since graphs can represent all kinds of data and provide a suitable framework for studying continuum limits, e.g., of differential operators. A popular strategy here is $p$-Laplacian learning, which poses a smoothness condition on the sought inference function on the set of unlabeled data. For $p<infty$ continuum limits of this approach were studied using tools from $Gamma$-convergence. For the case $p=infty$, which is referred to as Lipschitz learning, continuum limits of the related infinity-Laplacian equation were studied using the concept of viscosity solutions. In this work, we prove continuum limits of Lipschitz learning using $Gamma$-convergence. In particular, we define a sequence of functionals which approximate the largest local Lipschitz constant of a graph function and prove $Gamma$-convergence in the $L^{i}nfty$-topology to the supremum norm of the gradient as the graph becomes denser. Furthermore, we show compactness of the functionals which implies convergence of minimizers. In our analysis we allow a varying set of labeled data which converges to a general closed set in the Hausdorff distance. We apply our results to nonlinear ground states, i.e., minimizers with constrained $L^p$-norm, and, as a by-product, prove convergence of graph distance functions to geodesic distance functions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02)

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