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We discuss the relation between the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between probability distributions on a metric space, arising in the study of Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, and the spectral distance of noncommutative geometry.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Andrea , Pierre Martinetti

In noncommutative geometry, Connes's spectral distance is an extended metric on the state space of a C*-algebra generalizing Kantorovich's dual formula of the Wasserstein distance of order 1 from optimal transport. It is expressed as a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Francesco D'Andrea , Pierre Martinetti

We investigate whether the identification between Connes' spectral distance in noncommutative geometry and the Monge-Kantorovich distance of order 1 in the theory of optimal transport - that has been pointed out by Rieffel in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Pierre Martinetti

Wasserstein distances are metrics on probability distributions inspired by the problem of optimal mass transportation. Roughly speaking, they measure the minimal effort required to reconfigure the probability mass of one distribution in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-10 Victor M. Panaretos , Yoav Zemel

Controlling the $\mathcal W_\infty$ Wasserstein distance by the $\mathcal W_p$ Wasserstein distance is interesting both for theorical and numerical applications. A first paper on this problem was written several years ago [3]. Some year…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Luigi De Pascale , Igor Pinheiro

This paper focuses on the Monge-Kantorovich formulation of the optimal transport problem and the associated $L^2$ Wasserstein distance. We use the $L^2$ Wasserstein distance in the Nearest Neighbour (NN) machine learning architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Michael Snow , Jan Van lent

We study the problem of minimizing the Wasserstein distance between a probability distribution and an algebraic variety. We consider the setting of finite state spaces and describe the solution depending on the choice of the ground metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-15 T. Ö. Çelik , A. Jamneshan , G. Montúfar , B. Sturmfels , L. Venturello

We investigate here the optimal transportation problem on configuration space for the quadratic cost. It is shown that, as usual, provided that the corresponding Wasserstein is finite, there exists one unique optimal measure and that this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Decreusefond

Optimal transport provides a powerful mathematical framework with applications spanning numerous fields. A cornerstone within this domain is the $p$-Wasserstein distance, which serves to quantify the cost of transporting one probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Emily Beatty , Daniel Stilck França

We are interested in the Wasserstein distance between two probability measures on $\R^n$ sharing the same copula $C$. The image of the probability measure $dC$ by the vectors of pseudo-inverses of marginal distributions is a natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Aurélien Alfonsi , Benjamin Jourdain

This paper focuses on a similarity measure, known as the Wasserstein distance, with which to compare images. The Wasserstein distance results from a partial differential equation (PDE) formulation of Monge's optimal transport problem. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Michael Snow , Jan Van lent

In this paper, we study the properties of Connes spectral distances between quantum states under unitary transformations. We mainly focus on spectral triples with matrix algebras acting on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces via some linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ji-Hong Wang , Bing-Sheng Lin , Zhi-Kang You

Optimal transport between classical probability distributions has been proven useful in areas such as machine learning and random combinatorial optimization. Quantum optimal transport, and the quantum Wasserstein distance as the minimal…

We define the quantum Wasserstein distance such that the optimization of the coupling is carried out over bipartite separable states rather than bipartite quantum states in general, and examine its properties. Surprisingly, we find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Géza Tóth , József Pitrik

We investigate the Wasserstein distance between the empirical spectral distribution of non-Hermitian random matrices and the Circular Law. For general entry distributions, we obtain a nearly optimal rate of convergence in 1-Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Jonas Jalowy

The theory of optimal transport of probability measures has wide-ranging applications across a number of different fields, including concentration of measure, machine learning, Markov chains, and economics. The generalisation of optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Emily Beatty

We propose a new generalization to quantum states of the Wasserstein distance, which is a fundamental distance between probability distributions given by the minimization of a transport cost. Our proposal is the first where the transport…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan

We study transport distances on metric graphs representing gas networks. Starting from the dynamic formulation of the Wasserstein distance, we review extensions to networks, with and without the possibility of storing mass on the vertices.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Martin Burger , Ariane Fazeny , Gilles Mordant , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

The spectral distance for noncommutative Moyal planes is considered in the framework of a non compact spectral triple recently proposed as a possible noncommutative analog of non compact Riemannian spin manifold. An explicit formula for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-25 Eric Cagnache , Jean-Christophe Wallet

In this paper we introduce a Wasserstein-type distance on the set of Gaussian mixture models. This distance is defined by restricting the set of possible coupling measures in the optimal transport problem to Gaussian mixture models. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Julie Delon , Agnes Desolneux
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