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Transportation distances have been used for more than a decade now in machine learning to compare histograms of features. They have one parameter: the ground metric, which can be any metric between the features themselves. As is the case…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-26 Marco Cuturi , David Avis

We study general geometric properties of cone spaces, and we apply them on the Hellinger--Kantorovich space $(\mathcal{M}(X),\mathsf{H\hspace{-0.25em} K}_{\alpha,\beta}).$ We exploit a two-parameter scaling property of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Vaios Laschos , Alexander Mielke

Liftings of endofunctors on sets to endofunctors on relations are commonly used to capture bisimulation of coalgebras. Lax versions have been used in those cases where strict lifting fails to capture bisimilarity, as well as in modeling…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Ezra Schoen

We report on experimental measurement of the Hilbert-Schmidt distance between two two-qubit states by many-particle interference. We demonstrate that our three-step method for measuring distances in Hilbert space is far less complex than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Vojtěch Trávníček , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr

We study the following metric distortion problem: there are two finite sets of points, $V$ and $C$, that lie in the same metric space, and our goal is to choose a point in $C$ whose total distance from the points in $V$ is as small as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Daniel Halpern , Nisarg Shah

Fuzzy metric spaces, grounded in t-norms and membership functions, have been widely proposed to model uncertainty in machine learning, decision systems, and artificial intelligence. Yet these frameworks treat uncertainty as an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Nicola Fabiano

The Wasserstein metric or earth mover's distance (EMD) is a useful tool in statistics, machine learning and computer science with many applications to biological or medical imaging, among others. Especially in the light of increasingly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Jörn Schrieber , Dominic Schuhmacher , Carsten Gottschlich

We prove general results about separation and weak$^\#$-convergence of boundedly finite measures on separable metric spaces and Souslin spaces. More precisely, we consider an algebra of bounded real-valued, or more generally a $*$-algebra…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Wolfgang Löhr , Thomas Rippl

This paper considers inference for a function of a parameter vector in a partially identified model with many moment inequalities. This framework allows the number of moment conditions to grow with the sample size, possibly at exponential…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Alexandre Belloni , Federico Bugni , Victor Chernozhukov

This paper continues our survey about the mean-field derivation of the two-dimensional signal-dependent Keller-Segel system studied in [1]. Therefore, we consider the same system of moderately interacting particles as before. The difference…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Lukas Bol , Li Chen

We prove a quantitative version of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem. We show that a uniformly chosen voter profile for a neutral social choice function f of $q \ge 4$ alternatives and n voters will be manipulable with probability at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-14 Marcus Isaksson , Guy Kindler , Elchanan Mossel

In a recent paper published in this journal [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 495004] we studied a one-dimensional particles system where nearest particles attract with a force inversely proportional to a power \alpha of their distance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-07 Paolo Politi , Daniel ben-Avraham

In this paper, we focus on non-conservative collision avoidance between robots and obstacles with control affine dynamics and convex shapes. System safety is defined using the minimum distance between the safe regions associated with robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Akshay Thirugnanam , Jun Zeng , Koushil Sreenath

We consider a stochastic optimization problem involving two random variables: a context variable $X$ and a dependent variable $Y$. The objective is to minimize the expected value of a nonlinear loss functional applied to the conditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Noel Smith , Andrzej Ruszczynski

Many complex systems occurring in the natural or social sciences or economics are frequently described on a microscopic level, e.g., by lattice- or agent-based models. To analyze the states of such systems and their bifurcation structure on…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-10-07 Clemens Willers , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer , David J. B. Lloyd , Oliver Kamps

We study generalized free fields (GFF) from the point of view of information measures. We first review conformal GFF, their holographic representation, and the ambiguities in the assignation of algebras to regions that arise in these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Valentin Benedetti , Horacio Casini , Pedro J. Martinez

This work introduces liftings and their associated Young measures as new tools to study the asymptotic behaviour of sequences of pairs $(u_j,Du_j)j$ for $(u_j)_j \in \mathrm{BV}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^m)$ under weak* convergence. These tools are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Giles Shaw , Filip Rindler

Many stochastic physical systems evolve smoothly over time in the sense that the distribution of states changes regularly across time steps. The transition from current state to the next state can often be modeled as the combination of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jules Berman , Tobias Blickhan , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Learning and generalizing from limited examples, i,e, few-shot learning, is of core importance to many real-world vision applications. A principal way of achieving few-shot learning is to realize an embedding where samples from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Rongkai Ma , Pengfei Fang , Tom Drummond , Mehrtash Harandi

There is wide agreement on the importance of implementation data from randomized effectiveness studies in behavioral science; however, there are few methods available to incorporate these data into causal models, especially when they are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-17 Sooyong Lee , Adam C Sales , Hyeon-Ah Kang , Tiffany A. Whittaker