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Covariance matrices have proven highly effective across many scientific fields. Since these matrices lie within the Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) manifold - a Riemannian space with intrinsic non-Euclidean geometry, the primary challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rui Wang , Shaocheng Jin , Ziheng Chen , Xiaoqing Luo , Xiao-Jun Wu

In this paper, we comparatively analyze the Bures-Wasserstein (BW) geometry with the popular Affine-Invariant (AI) geometry for Riemannian optimization on the symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix manifold. Our study begins with an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Junbin Gao

In this brief note, it is shown that the Bures-Wasserstein (BW) metric on the space positive definite matrices lends itself to convex optimization. In other words, the computation of the BW metric can be posed as a convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Shravan Mohan

This work extends the recently introduced Alpha-Procrustes family of Riemannian metrics for symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices by incorporating generalized versions of the Bures-Wasserstein (GBW), Log-Euclidean, and Wasserstein…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-22 Salvish Goomanee , Andi Han , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Over the past few years, symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices have been receiving considerable attention from computer vision community. Though various distance measures have been proposed in the past for comparing SPD matrices, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Raviteja Vemulapalli , David W. Jacobs

In his classical argument, Rao derives the Riemannian distance corresponding to the Fisher metric using a mapping between the space of positive measures and Euclidean space. He obtains the Hellinger distance on the full space of measures…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Jesse van Oostrum

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

We explore the use of tools from Riemannian geometry for the analysis of symmetric positive definite matrices (SPD). An SPD matrix is a versatile data representation that is commonly used in chemical engineering (e.g.,…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-24 Alexander Smith , Benjamin Laubach , Ivan Castillo , Victor M. Zavala

The metric $d(A,B)=\left[ \tr\, A+\tr\, B-2\tr(A^{1/2}BA^{1/2})^{1/2}\right]^{1/2}$ on the manifold of $n\times n$ positive definite matrices arises in various optimisation problems, in quantum information and in the theory of optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Rajendra Bhatia , Tanvi Jain , Yongdo Lim

The goal of this paper is to show how different machine learning tools on the Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{P}_d$ of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices can be united under a probabilistic framework. For this, we will need several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Thibault de Surrel , Florian Yger , Fabien Lotte , Sylvain Chevallier

Circular and non-flat data distributions are prevalent across diverse domains of data science, yet their specific geometric structures often remain underutilized in machine learning frameworks. A principled approach to accounting for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-25 Thibault de Surrel , Fabien Lotte , Sylvain Chevallier , Florian Yger

We develop a framework for generalized variational inference in infinite-dimensional function spaces and use it to construct a method termed Gaussian Wasserstein inference (GWI). GWI leverages the Wasserstein distance between Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Veit D. Wild , Robert Hu , Dino Sejdinovic

On the space of positive definite matrices we consider distance functions of the form $d(A,B)=\left[\tr\mathcal{A}(A,B)-\tr\mathcal{G}(A,B)\right]^{1/2},$ where $\mathcal{A}(A,B)$ is the arithmetic mean and $\mathcal{G}(A,B)$ is one of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Rajendra Bhatia , Stephane Gaubert , Tanvi Jain

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been widely used for data representation in many visual recognition tasks. The success mainly attributes to learning discriminative SPD matrices with encoding the Riemannian geometry of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Zhiwu Huang , Ruiping Wang , Xianqiu Li , Wenxian Liu , Shiguang Shan , Luc Van Gool , Xilin Chen

In this paper, we develop a new classification method for manifold-valued data in the framework of probabilistic learning vector quantization. In many classification scenarios, the data can be naturally represented by symmetric positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Fengzhen Tang , Haifeng Feng , Peter Tino , Bailu Si , Daxiong Ji

We introduce and study a novel model-selection strategy for Bayesian learning, based on optimal transport, along with its associated predictive posterior law: the Wasserstein population barycenter of the posterior law over models. We first…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-10 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Joaquin Fontbona , Gonzalo Rios , Felipe Tobar

Representing images and videos with Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and considering the Riemannian geometry of the resulting space has proven beneficial for many recognition tasks. Unfortunately, computation on the Riemannian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Mehrtash T. Harandi , Mathieu Salzmann , Richard Hartley

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have become popular to encode image information. Accounting for the geometry of the Riemannian manifold of SPD matrices has proven key to the success of many algorithms. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

The Wasserstein space of probability measures is known for its intricate Riemannian structure, which underpins the Wasserstein geometry and enables gradient flow algorithms. However, the Wasserstein geometry may not be suitable for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

Differential geometric approaches to the analysis and processing of data in the form of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices have had notable successful applications to numerous fields including computer vision, medical imaging, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Cyrus Mostajeran , Nathaël Da Costa , Graham Van Goffrier , Rodolphe Sepulchre
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