K-Means as the Zero-Temperature Limit of Normalized RBF Assignments: Rates, Trajectories, and Exact Recovery with Entmax

arXiv:2603.04625 · cs.LG, math.ST, stat.ML, stat.TH · Submitted 2026-03-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, math.ST, stat.ML, stat.TH

Submitted: 2026-03-04

Updated: 2026-10-22

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