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Barycenters (aka Fr\'echet means) were introduced in statistics in the 1940's and popularized in the fields of shape statistics and, later, in optimal transport and matrix analysis. They provide the most natural extension of linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel , Jordan Serres

The Fr\'echet mean, a generalization to a metric space of the expectation of a random variable in a vector space, can exhibit unexpected behavior for a wide class of random variables. For instance, it can stick to a point (more generally to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Lars Lammers , Do Tran Van , Stephan F. Huckemann

To characterize the location (mean, median) of a set of graphs, one needs a notion of centrality that is adapted to metric spaces, since graph sets are not Euclidean spaces. A standard approach is to consider the Frechet mean. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-19 Daniel Ferguson , Francois G. Meyer

We prove a central limit theorem (CLT) for the Frechet mean of independent and identically distributed observations in a compact Riemannian manifold assuming that the population Frechet mean is unique. Previous general CLT results in this…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Thomas Hotz , Huiling Le , Andrew T. A. Wood

This paper investigates the large deviation problem in the sample path space of the nearest-neighbor random walks on regular trees. We establish the sample path large deviation principle for the law of the distance from a nearest random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Jie Jiang , Shuwen Lai

This paper provides a framework to show the concentration of solutions $Y^*$ to convex minimizing problem where the objective function $\phi(X)(Y)$ depends on some random vector $X$ satisfying concentration of measure hypotheses. More…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Cosme Louart

Non-Euclidean data that are indexed with a scalar predictor such as time are increasingly encountered in data applications, while statistical methodology and theory for such random objects are not well developed yet. To address the need for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-24 Zhenhua Lin , Hans-Georg Müller

We prove a general quantitative theorem on the asymptotic behavior of stochastic quasi-Fej\'er monotone sequences in a broad metric context. Concretely, our result explicitly constructs a rate of convergence for such process, both in mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Nicholas Pischke , Thomas Powell

There is growing interest in developing statistical estimators that achieve exponential concentration around a population target even when the data distribution has heavier than exponential tails. More recent activity has focused on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Jakwang Kim , Jiyoung Park , Anirban Bhattacharya

We introduce a new generalization of relative entropy to non-negative vectors with sums $\gt 1$. We show in a purely combinatorial setting, with no probabilistic considerations, that in the presence of linear constraints defining a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Kostas N. Oikonomou

Metric trees and metric tree arrangements index cones in the polyhedral fan structure in the Dressian $Dr(2,n)$ and $Dr(3,n)$ respectively. We introduce the notion of generalized metric tree arrangements which parameterize points in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ayush Kumar Tewari

In the present work, we provide the general expression of the normalized centered moments of the Fr\'echet extreme-value distribution. In order to try to represent a set of data corresponding to rare events by a Fr\'echet distribution, it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Jean-Christophe Pain

This paper investigates the Fr\'echet mean of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G_{n,p}$ with respect to the Frobenius distance on graph Laplacians, a metric that captures global structural information beyond local edge flips. We first…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Qunqiang Feng , Zixin Tang , Zhishui Hu

We prove a generalized contraction principle with control function in complete partial metric spaces. The contractive type condition used allows the appearance of self distance terms. The obtained result generalizes some previously obtained…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Thabet Abdeljawad , Younis Zaidan , Naseer Shahzad

Global Fr\'echet regression is addressed from the observation of a strictly stationary bivariate curve process, evaluated in a finite--dimensional compact differentiable Riemannian manifold, with bounded positive smooth sectional curvature.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 A. Torres-Signes , M. P. Frías , M. D. Ruiz-Medina

We describe the use of the Frechet mean and variance in the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) treespace to summarize and explore the diversity of a set of phylogenetic trees. We show that the Frechet mean is comparable to other summary methods,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-14 Daniel G. Brown , Megan Owen

This paper revisits a fundamental problem in statistical inference from a non-asymptotic theoretical viewpoint $\unicode{x2013}$ the construction of confidence sets. We establish a finite-sample bound for the estimator, characterizing its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Lang Liu , Zaid Harchaoui

Given a distribution $\rho$ on persistence diagrams and observations $X_1,...X_n \stackrel{iid}{\sim} \rho$ we introduce an algorithm in this paper that estimates a Fr\'echet mean from the set of diagrams $X_1,...X_n$. If the underlying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Katharine Turner , Yuriy Mileyko , Sayan Mukherjee , John Harer

We address consecutively two problems. First we introduce a class of so called Fre'chet generalized controls for a multi-input control-affine system with non-commuting controlled vector fields. For each control of the class one is able to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Manuel Guerra , Andrey Sarychev

The objective of this manuscript is to introduce and develop the concept of a generalized $\theta$-parametric metric space-a novel extension that enriches the modern metric fixed point theory. We study of its fundamental properties,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Abhishikta Das , Hemanta Kalita , Mohammad Sajid , T. Bag