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The Fr\'echet mean generalizes the concept of a mean to a metric space setting. In this work we consider equivariant estimation of Fr\'echet means for parametric models on metric spaces that are Riemannian manifolds. The geometry and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Andrew McCormack , Peter Hoff

Several algorithms build on the perfect phylogeny model to infer evolutionary trees. This problem is particularly hard when evolutionary trees are inferred from the fraction of genomes that have mutations in different positions, across…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Bei Jia , Surjyendu Ray , Sam Safavi , José Bento

In this article, we study the consistency of the template estimation with the Fr\'echet mean in quotient spaces. The Fr\'echet mean in quotient spaces is often used when the observations are deformed or transformed by a group action. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Loïc Devilliers , Stéphanie Allassonnière , Alain Trouvé , Xavier Pennec

Fr\'echet regression extends the principles of linear regression to accommodate responses valued in generic metric spaces. While this approach has primarily focused on exploring relationships between Euclidean predictors and non-Euclidean…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Chang Jun Im , Jeong Min Jeon

Shape-constrained functional data encompass a wide array of application fields, such as activity profiling, growth curves, healthcare and mortality. Most existing methods for general functional data analysis often ignore that such data are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-13 Poorbita Kundu , Hans-Georg Müller

Algorithms for computing or approximating optimal decompositions for decompositional parameters such as treewidth or clique-width have so far traditionally been tailored to specific width parameters. Moreover, for mim-width, no efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Lars Jaffke , O-Joung Kwon

The geometric median as well as the Frechet mean of points in an Hadamard space are important in both theory and applications. Surprisingly, no algorithms for their computation are hitherto known. To address this issue, we use a split…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Miroslav Bacak

Counterfactual explanations are usually generated through heuristics that are sensitive to the search's initial conditions. The absence of guarantees of performance and robustness hinders trustworthiness. In this paper, we take a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Axel Parmentier , Thibaut Vidal

Finding parameters that minimise a loss function is at the core of many machine learning methods. The Stochastic Gradient Descent algorithm is widely used and delivers state of the art results for many problems. Nonetheless, Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Yao Zhang , Andrew M. Saxe , Madhu S. Advani , Alpha A. Lee

In 1996, Bodlaender showed the celebrated result that an optimal tree decomposition of a graph of bounded treewidth can be found in linear time. The algorithm is based on an algorithm of Bodlaender and Kloks that computes an optimal tree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ernst Althaus , Sarah Ziegler

This work resolves the following question in non-Euclidean statistics: Is it possible to consistently estimate the Fr\'echet mean set of an unknown population distribution, with respect to the Hausdorff metric, when given access to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Moise Blanchard , Adam Quinn Jaffe

The Fr\'echet regression is a useful method for modeling random objects in a general metric space given Euclidean covariates. However, the conventional approach could be sensitive to outlying objects in the sense that the distance from the…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-21 Hao Li , Shonosuke Sugasawa , Shota Katayama

To characterize the location (mean, median) of a set of graphs, one needs a notion of centrality that is adapted to metric spaces, since graph sets are not Euclidean spaces. A standard approach is to consider the Fr\'echet mean. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Daniel Ferguson , François G. Meyer

This paper focuses on second-order necessary optimality conditions for constrained optimization problems on Banach spaces. For problems in the classical setting, where the objective function is $C^2$-smooth, we show that strengthened…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Duong Thi Viet An , Nguyen Dong Yen

The Fr\'echet mean is an important statistical summary and measure of centrality of data; it has been defined and studied for persistent homology captured by persistence diagrams. However, the complicated geometry of the space of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod

Phylogenomics, even more so than traditional phylogenetics, needs to represent the uncertainty in evolutionary trees due to systematic error. Here we illustrate the analysis of genome-scale alignments of yeast, using robust measures of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-12-31 Peter J. Waddell , Ariful Azad

Distribution-on-distribution regression considers the problem of formulating and estimating a regression relationship where both covariate and response are probability distributions. The optimal transport distributional regression model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Laya Ghodrati , Victor M. Panaretos

While globally optimal empirical risk minimization (ERM) decision trees have become computationally feasible and empirically successful, rigorous theoretical guarantees for their statistical performance remain limited. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-17 Zineng Xu , Subhro Ghosh , Yan Shuo Tan

We describe the use of the Frechet mean and variance in the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) treespace to summarize and explore the diversity of a set of phylogenetic trees. We show that the Frechet mean is comparable to other summary methods,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-14 Daniel G. Brown , Megan Owen

Bayesian inference is now a leading technique for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from aligned sequence data. In this short note, we formally show that the maximum posterior tree topology provides a statistically consistent estimate of a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-12 Mike Steel