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This article provides an overview on the statistical modeling of complex data as increasingly encountered in modern data analysis. It is argued that such data can often be described as elements of a metric space that satisfies certain…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-28 Paromita Dubey , Yaqing Chen , Hans-Georg Müller

Random measures provide flexible parameters for Bayesian nonparametric models. Given two different priors for a random measure, we develop a natural framework to investigate the rate at which the corresponding posteriors merge, as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Marta Catalano , Hugo Lavenant

This paper establishes Paley-Wiener perturbation theorems for probabilistic frames. The classical Paley-Wiener perturbation theorem shows that if a sequence is close to a basis in a Banach space, then this sequence is also a basis. Similar…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Dongwei Chen

The aim of this article is to promote the use of probabilistic methods in the study of problems in mathematical general relativity. Two new and simple singularity theorems, whose features are different from the classical singularity…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Ismael Bailleul

We develop a notion of projections between sets of probability measures using the geometric properties of the 2-Wasserstein space. It is designed for general multivariate probability measures, is computationally efficient to implement, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-04 Florian Gunsilius , Meng Hsuan Hsieh , Myung Jin Lee

Random probabilities are a key component to many nonparametric methods in Statistics and Machine Learning. To quantify comparisons between different laws of random probabilities several works are starting to use the elegant Wasserstein over…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Marta Catalano , Hugo Lavenant

This work studies an explicit embedding of the set of probability measures into a Hilbert space, defined using optimal transport maps from a reference probability density. This embedding linearizes to some extent the 2-Wasserstein space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-05 Quentin Mérigot , Alex Delalande , Frédéric Chazal

The geometric approach to optimal transport and information theory has triggered the interpretation of probability densities as an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The most studied Riemannian structures are Otto's metric, yielding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

Motivated by the expectation that relativistic symmetries might acquire quantum features in Quantum Gravity, we take the first steps towards a theory of ''Doubly'' Quantum Mechanics, a modification of Quantum Mechanics in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Vittorio D'Esposito , Giuseppe Fabiano , Domenico Frattulillo , Flavio Mercati

Parameter identification problems are formulated in a probabilistic language, where the randomness reflects the uncertainty about the knowledge of the true values. This setting allows conceptually easily to incorporate new information, e.g.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Bojana V. Rosić , Anna Kučerová , Jan Sýkora , Oliver Pajonk , Alexander Litvinenko , Hermann G. Matthies

Adapting large-scale foundation models to new domains with limited supervision remains a fundamental challenge due to latent distribution mismatch, unstable optimization dynamics, and miscalibrated uncertainty propagation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut , Kuepon Auewattanapisut

This paper makes mathematically precise the idea that conditional probabilities are analogous to path liftings in geometry. The idea of lifting is modelled in terms of the category-theoretic concept of a lens, which can be interpreted as a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Paolo Perrone

In this note, we propose an extension of the Wasserstein 1-metric ($W_1$) for matrix probability densities, matrix-valued density measures, and an unbalanced interpretation of mass transport. The key is using duality theory, in particular,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Lipeng Ning , Allen Tannenbaum

This paper is concerned by statistical inference problems from a data set whose elements may be modeled as random probability measures such as multiple histograms or point clouds. We propose to review recent contributions in statistics on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Jérémie Bigot

Many scientific systems, such as cellular populations or economic cohorts, are naturally described by probability distributions that evolve over time. Predicting how such a system would have evolved under different forces or initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Tristan Luca Saidi , Gonzalo Mena , Larry Wasserman , Florian Gunsilius

In this article we study a variational problem providing a way to extend for all times minimizing geodesics connecting two given probability measures, in the Wasserstein space. This is simply obtained by allowing for negative coefficients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Thomas O. Gallouët , Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

This paper is concerned by the study of barycenters for random probability measures in the Wasserstein space. Using a duality argument, we give a precise characterization of the population barycenter for various parametric classes of random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Jérémie Bigot , Thierry Klein

We introduce a new formulation for differential equation describing dynamics of measures on an Euclidean space, that we call Measure Differential Equations with sources. They mix two different phenomena: on one side, a transport-type term,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

We consider the space of probability measures on a discrete set $X$, endowed with a dynamical optimal transport metric. Given two probability measures supported in a subset $Y \subseteq X$, it is natural to ask whether they can be connected…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas , Melchior Wirth

We consider the problem of estimating the parameters of a vehicle dynamics model for predictive control in driving applications. Instead of solely using the instantaneous parameters estimated from the vehicle signals, we combine this with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Marcus Greiff , Ray Zhang , Takeru Shirasawa , John Subosits