Relaxation Kernel, Spectral Dissipation, and Global Convergence of Blahut--Arimoto Dynamics

Qiao Wang

We develop a spectral theory for continuous- and discrete-time Blahut--Arimoto (BA) dynamics, centered on the relaxation kernel $ \G = \E_p[K^*_X \otimes K^*_X] $. Five main result…