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A fundamental result of thermodynamic geometry is that the optimal, minimal-work protocol that drives a nonequilibrium system between two thermodynamic states in the slow-driving limit is given by a geodesic of the friction tensor, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-24 Adrianne Zhong , Michael R. DeWeese

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

Advancements in modern science have led to the increasing availability of non-Euclidean data in metric spaces. This paper addresses the challenge of modeling relationships between non-Euclidean responses and multivariate Euclidean…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Su I Iao , Yidong Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

Regression on manifolds, and, more broadly, statistics on manifolds, has garnered significant importance in recent years due to the vast number of applications for non Euclidean data. Circular data is a classic example, but so is data in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-18 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Fabrice Gamboa , Leonardo Moreno

Fr\'echet regression extends classical regression methods to non-Euclidean metric spaces, enabling the analysis of data relationships on complex structures such as manifolds and graphs. This work establishes a rigorous theoretical analysis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-05 Masanari Kimura , Howard Bondell

It has been shown beneficial for many types of data which present an underlying hierarchical structure to be embedded in hyperbolic spaces. Consequently, many tools of machine learning were extended to such spaces, but only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Clément Bonet , Laetitia Chapel , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

A nonparametric regression setting is considered with a real-valued covariate and responses from a metric space. One may approach this setting via Fr\'echet regression, where the value of the regression function at each point is estimated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Christof Schötz

This work presents a non-parametric spatio-temporal model for mapping human activity by mobile autonomous robots in a long-term context. Based on Variational Gaussian Process Regression, the model incorporates prior information of spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Marvin Stuede , Moritz Schappler

This paper studies robust regression for data on Riemannian manifolds. Geodesic regression is the generalization of linear regression to a setting with a manifold-valued dependent variable and one or more real-valued independent variables.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-26 Ha-Young Shin , Hee-Seok Oh

Regression is an essential and fundamental methodology in statistical analysis. The majority of the literature focuses on linear and nonlinear regression in the context of the Euclidean space. However, regression models in non-Euclidean…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-06 Jinzhao Liu , Chao Liu , Jian Qing Shi , Tom Nye

Regression with distribution-valued responses and Euclidean predictors has gained increasing scientific relevance. While methodology for univariate distributional data has advanced rapidly in recent years, multivariate distributions, which…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Junyoung Park , Irina Gaynanova

Extrinsic Gaussian process regression methods, such as wrapped Gaussian process, have been developed to analyze manifold data. However, there is a lack of intrinsic Gaussian process methods for studying complex data with manifold-valued…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Zhanfeng Wang , Xinyu Li , Hao Ding , Jian Qing Shi

While statistical modeling of distributional data has gained increased attention, the case of multivariate distributions has been somewhat neglected despite its relevance in various applications. This is because the Wasserstein distance,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Han Chen , Yidong Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

A multivariate distribution can be described by a triangular transport map from the target distribution to a simple reference distribution. We propose Bayesian nonparametric inference on the transport map by modeling its components using…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-18 Matthias Katzfuss , Florian Schäfer

Spherical regression, in which both covariates and responses lie on the sphere, arises in many scientific applications and has attracted considerable methodological attention in recent years. Despite this progress, constructing flexible and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Tin Lok James Ng , Kwok-Kun Kwong , Jiakun Liu , Andrew Zammit-Mangion

We consider the fundamental task of optimising a real-valued function defined in a potentially high-dimensional Euclidean space, such as the loss function in many machine-learning tasks or the logarithm of the probability distribution in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-20 Marcelo Hartmann , Bernardo Williams , Hanlin Yu , Mark Girolami , Alessandro Barp , Arto Klami

We study the problem of network regression, where one is interested in how the topology of a network changes as a function of Euclidean covariates. We build upon recent developments in generalized regression models on metric spaces based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-19 Alex G. Zalles , Kai M. Hung , Ann E. Finneran , Lydia Beaudrot , César A. Uribe

Trajectory planning tasks for non-holonomic or collaborative systems are naturally modeled by state spaces with non-Euclidean metrics. However, existing proofs of convergence for sample-based motion planners only consider the setting of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Anton Lukyanenko , Damoon Soudbakhsh

Geometric representation learning has recently shown great promise in several machine learning settings, ranging from relational learning to language processing and generative models. In this work, we consider the problem of performing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-29 Gian Maria Marconi , Lorenzo Rosasco , Carlo Ciliberto

In this paper the optimal transport and the metamorphosis perspectives are combined. For a pair of given input images geodesic paths in the space of images are defined as minimizers of a resulting path energy. To this end, the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Jan Maas , Martin Rumpf , Carola Schönlieb , Stefan Simon