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This paper reviews recent advancements in the application of optimal transport (OT) to multivariate distribution-free nonparametric testing. Inspired by classical rank-based methods, such as Wilcoxon's rank-sum and signed-rank tests, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-18 Zhen Huang , Bodhisattva Sen

We introduce a formulation of optimal transport problem for distributions on function spaces, where the stochastic map between functional domains can be partially represented in terms of an (infinite-dimensional) Hilbert-Schmidt operator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-29 Jiacheng Zhu , Aritra Guha , Dat Do , Mengdi Xu , XuanLong Nguyen , Ding Zhao

Optimal transport maps define a one-to-one correspondence between probability distributions, and as such have grown popular for machine learning applications. However, these maps are generally defined on empirical observations and cannot be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Lucas de Lara , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

Optimal transport (OT) is a popular measure to compare probability distributions. However, OT suffers a few drawbacks such as (i) a high complexity for computation, (ii) indefiniteness which limits its applicability to kernel machines. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Dinh Phung , Viet Anh Nguyen

Extending rank-based inference to a multivariate setting such as multiple-output regression or MANOVA with unspecified d-dimensional error density has remained an open problem for more than half a century. None of the many solutions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Marc Hallin , Daniel Hlubinka , Šárka Hudecová

Describing shapes by suitable measures in object segmentation, as proposed in [24], allows to combine the advantages of the representations as parametrized contours and indicator functions. The pseudo-Riemannian structure of optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr

We propose a projection-based class of uniformity tests on the hypersphere using statistics that integrate, along all possible directions, the weighted quadratic discrepancy between the empirical cumulative distribution function of the…

This paper develops a set of empirically tractable and flexible sieve estimators for semi-nonparametric multidimensional matching models with transferable utility, focusing on worker-job matching. We generalize the parametric…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-25 Dongwoo Kim , Young Jun Lee

Transport-based techniques for signal and data analysis have received increased attention recently. Given their abilities to provide accurate generative models for signal intensities and other data distributions, they have been used in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Soheil Kolouri , Serim Park , Matthew Thorpe , Dejan Slepčev , Gustavo K. Rohde

Traditional nonparametric estimation methods often lead to a slow convergence rate in large dimensions and require unrealistically enormous sizes of datasets for reliable conclusions. We develop an approach based on partial derivatives,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-20 Xiaowu Dai

In many fields, data appears in the form of direction (unit vector) and usual statistical procedures are not applicable to such directional data. In this study, we propose non-parametric goodness-of-fit testing procedures for general…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-18 Wenkai Xu , Takeru Matsuda

Optimal Transport is a theory that allows to define geometrical notions of distance between probability distributions and to find correspondences, relationships, between sets of points. Many machine learning applications are derived from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-10 Titouan Vayer

The sign test (Arbuthnott, 1710) and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test (Wilcoxon, 1945) are among the first examples of a nonparametric test. These procedures -- based on signs, (absolute) ranks and signed-ranks -- yield distribution-free tests…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-04 Zhen Huang , Bodhisattva Sen

Data attribution for generative models seeks to quantify the influence of individual training examples on model outputs. Existing methods for diffusion models typically require access to model gradients or retraining, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yutian Zhao , Chao Du , Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin

Directional data consists of unit vectors in q-dimensions that can be described in polar or Cartesian coordinates. Axial data can be viewed as a pair of directions pointed in opposite directions or as a projection matrix of rank 1.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-22 Rudolf Beran

Permutation tests enable testing statistical hypotheses in situations when the distribution of the test statistic is complicated or not available. In some situations, the test statistic under investigation is multivariate, with the multiple…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-08 Zdeněk Hlávka , Daniel Hlubinka , Šárka Hudecová

Semi-supervised learning provides an effective paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to improve a model's performance. Among the many strategies proposed, graph-based methods have shown excellent properties, in particular since they allow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-29 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani

For probability measures on countable spaces we derive distributional limits for empirical entropic optimal transport quantities. More precisely, we show that the empirical optimal transport plan weakly converges to a centered Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Shayan Hundrieser , Marcel Klatt , Axel Munk

Measurement uncertainty relations are lower bounds on the errors of any approximate joint measurement of two or more quantum observables. The aim of this paper is to provide methods to compute optimal bounds of this type. The basic method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 René Schwonnek , David Reeb , Reinhard F. Werner

When modeling directional data, that is, unit-norm multivariate vectors, a first natural question is to ask whether the directions are uniformly distributed or, on the contrary, whether there exist modes of variation significantly different…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-04 Eduardo García-Portugués , Thomas Verdebout