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Wasserstein Barycenter is a principled approach to represent the weighted mean of a given set of probability distributions, utilizing the geometry induced by optimal transport. In this work, we present a novel scalable algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jiaojiao Fan , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Yongxin Chen

In this article, we study Wasserstein-type metrics and corresponding barycenters for mixtures of a chosen subset of probability measures called atoms hereafter. In particular, this works extends what was proposed by Delon and Desolneux [A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Geneviève Dusson , Virginie Ehrlacher , Nathalie Nouaime

We investigate barycenters of probability measures on Gromov hyperbolic spaces, toward development of convex optimization in this class of metric spaces. We establish a contraction property (the Wasserstein distance between probability…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Shin-ichi Ohta

In this paper we provide conditions for a Wasserstein barycenter to be absolutely continuous with respect to its Hausdorff measure away from the vertices of the graph.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jérôme Bertrand , Jianyu Ma

A Bayesian nonparametric estimator to entropy is proposed. The derivation of the new estimator relies on using the Dirichlet process and adapting the well-known frequentist estimators of Vasicek (1976) and Ebrahimi, Pflughoeft and Soofi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Luai Al-Labadi , Viskakh Patel , Kasra Vakiloroayaei , Clement Wan

We propose a hybrid resampling method to approximate finitely supported Wasserstein barycenters on large-scale datasets, which can be combined with any exact solver. Nonasymptotic bounds on the expected error of the objective value as well…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-28 Florian Heinemann , Axel Munk , Yoav Zemel

Computing Wasserstein barycenters is a fundamental geometric problem with widespread applications in machine learning, statistics, and computer graphics. However, it is unknown whether Wasserstein barycenters can be computed in polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Jason M. Altschuler , Enric Boix-Adsera

In this paper, we address a fundamental limitation of the classical Wasserstein barycenter -- its sensitivity to outliers and its reliance on finite first/second moment assumptions. To overcome these issues, we propose the robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Zixiong Cheng , Hang Liu

In this paper, we present a generalization of the parameterization method, introduced by Cabr\'{e}, Fontich and De la Llave, to center manifolds associated to non-hyperbolic fixed points of discrete dynamical systems. As a byproduct, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Wouter Hetebrij , Bob Rink

In this work, we propose a method for computing centroids, or barycenters, in the spectral Wasserstein-2 metric for sets of power spectral densities, where the barycenters are restricted to belong to the set of all-pole spectra with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Rumeshika Pallewela , Filip Elvander

Computing Wasserstein barycenters (a.k.a. Optimal Transport barycenters) is a fundamental problem in geometry which has recently attracted considerable attention due to many applications in data science. While there exist polynomial-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Jason M. Altschuler , Enric Boix-Adsera

We present a stochastic algorithm to compute the barycenter of a set of probability distributions under the Wasserstein metric from optimal transport. Unlike previous approaches, our method extends to continuous input distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Justin Solomon

The Wasserstein barycenter (WB) is an important tool for summarizing sets of probability measures. It finds applications in applied probability, clustering, image processing, etc. When the measures' supports are finite, computing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Daniel Mimouni , P Malisani , J. Zhu , W. de Oliveira

Computing Wasserstein barycenters of discrete measures has recently attracted considerable attention due to its wide variety of applications in data science. In general, this problem is NP-hard, calling for practical approximative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Johannes von Lindheim

The optimal transport barycenter (a.k.a. Wasserstein barycenter) is a fundamental notion of averaging that extends from the Euclidean space to the Wasserstein space of probability distributions. Computation of the unregularized barycenter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Kaheon Kim , Rentian Yao , Changbo Zhu , Xiaohui Chen

Wasserstein barycenter is the centroid of a collection of discrete probability distributions which minimizes the average of the $\ell_2$-Wasserstein distance. This paper focuses on the computation of Wasserstein barycenters under the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Yitian Qian , Shaohua Pan

Distributed systems require fusing heterogeneous local probability distributions into a global summary over sparse and unreliable communication networks. Traditional consensus algorithms, which average distributions in Euclidean space,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ali Baheri , Alireza Vahid

This work studies the entropic regularization formulation of the 2-Wasserstein distance on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, in particular for the Gaussian setting. We first present the Minimum Mutual Information property, namely the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-15 Minh Ha Quang

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the progressive approximation of Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams, with applications to the visual analysis of ensemble data. Given a set of scalar fields, our approach enables…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Jules Vidal , Joseph Budin , Julien Tierny

This paper provides rates of convergence for empirical (generalised) barycenters on compact geodesic metric spaces under general conditions using empirical processes techniques. Our main assumption is termed a variance inequality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Adil Ahidar-Coutrix , Thibaut Le Gouic , Quentin Paris