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Wasserstein barycenter, built on the theory of optimal transport, provides a powerful framework to aggregate probability distributions, and it has increasingly attracted great attention within the machine learning community. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jinjin Chi , Zhiyao Yang , Jihong Ouyang , Ximing Li

High-dimensional multimodal data arises in many scientific fields. The integration of multimodal data becomes challenging when there is no known correspondence between the samples and the features of different datasets. To tackle this…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-11 Kathryn Dover , Zixuan Cang , Anna Ma , Qing Nie , Roman Vershynin

In this paper we study the BV regularity for solutions of variational problems in Optimal Transportation. As an application we recover BV estimates for solutions of some non-linear parabolic PDE by means of optimal transportation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Guido De Philippis , Alpár Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio , Bozhidar Velichkov

We develop the theory of a metric, which we call the $\nu$-based Wasserstein metric and denote by $W_\nu$, on the set of probability measures $\mathcal P(X)$ on a domain $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^m$. This metric is based on a slight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

We tackle the data-driven chance-constrained density steering problem using the Gromov-Wasserstein metric. The underlying dynamical system is an unknown linear controlled recursion, with the assumption that sufficiently rich input-output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for unsupervised domain adaptation, that relates notions of optimal transport, learning probability measures and unsupervised learning. The proposed approach, HOT-DA, is based on a hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani , Issam Falih , Hamid Ahaggach

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (DRO) aims to find robust and generalizable solutions by hedging against data perturbations in Wasserstein distance. Despite its recent empirical success in operations research and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rui Gao

An essential component of therapeutic drug/biomarker monitoring (TDM) is to combine patient data with prior knowledge for model-based predictions of therapy outcomes. Current Bayesian forecasting tools typically rely only on the most…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-23 Corinna Maier , Niklas Hartung , Jana de Wiljes , Charlotte Kloft , Wilhelm Huisinga

Data assimilation of atmospheric observations traditionally relies on variational and Kalman filter methods. Here, an alternative neural-network data assimilation (NNDA) with variational autoencoder (VAE) is proposed. The three-dimensional…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Boštjan Melinc , Žiga Zaplotnik

We use a new method via $p$-Wasserstein bounds to prove Cram\'er-type moderate deviations in (multivariate) normal approximations. In the classical setting that $W$ is a standardized sum of $n$ independent and identically distributed…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Xiao Fang , Yuta Koike

A novel framework for density estimation under expectation constraints is proposed. The framework minimizes the Wasserstein distance between the estimated density and a prior, subject to the constraints that the expected value of a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Yinan Hu , Esteban G. Tabak

Multi-modal distributions are commonly used to model clustered data in statistical learning tasks. In this paper, we consider the Mixed Linear Regression (MLR) problem. We propose an optimal transport-based framework for MLR problems,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-17 Theo Diamandis , Yonina C. Eldar , Alireza Fallah , Farzan Farnia , Asuman Ozdaglar

This paper is a contribution in the context of variational data assimilation combined with statistical learning. The framework of data assimilation traditionally uses data collected at sensor locations in order to bring corrections to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Amina Benaceur , Barbara Verfürth

Statistical Data Assimilation (SDA) is the transfer of information from field or laboratory observations to a user selected model of the dynamical system producing those observations. The data is noisy and the model has errors; the…

Computation · Statistics 2019-01-16 Adrian S. Wong , Kangbo Hao , Zheng Fang , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

The unequal representation of different groups in a sample population can lead to discrimination of minority groups when machine learning models make automated decisions. To address these issues, fairness-aware machine learning jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xuan Zhao , Simone Fabbrizzi , Paula Reyero Lobo , Siamak Ghodsi , Klaus Broelemann , Steffen Staab , Gjergji Kasneci

We present a novel universal gradient method for solving convex optimization problems. Our algorithm, Dual Averaging with Distance Adaptation (DADA), is based on the classical scheme of dual averaging and dynamically adjusts its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Mohammad Moshtaghifar , Anton Rodomanov , Daniil Vankov , Sebastian Stich

Suppose we are given two metric spaces and a family of continuous transformations from one to the other. Given a probability distribution on each of these two spaces - namely the source and the target measures - the Wasserstein alignment…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Soumik Pal , Bodhisattva Sen , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

This paper presents a new approach to the classical problem of quantifying posterior contraction rates (PCRs) in Bayesian statistics. Our approach relies on Wasserstein distance, and it leads to two main contributions which improve on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Emanuele Dolera , Stefano Favaro , Edoardo Mainini

A common feature of methods for analyzing samples of probability density functions is that they respect the geometry inherent to the space of densities. Once a metric is specified for this space, the Fr\'echet mean is typically used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-20 Alexander Petersen , Hans-Georg Müller

Data assimilation, consisting in the combination of a dynamical model with a set of noisy and incomplete observations in order to infer the state of a system over time, involves uncertainty in most settings. Building upon an existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Anthony Frion , David S Greenberg