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The Wasserstein distance is an attractive tool for data analysis but statistical inference is hindered by the lack of distributional limits. To overcome this obstacle, for probability measures supported on finitely many points, we derive…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-27 Max Sommerfeld , Axel Munk

We consider large deviations of empirical measures of diffusion processes. In a first part, we present conditions to obtain a large deviations principle (LDP) for a precise class of unbounded functions. This provides an analogue to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Grégoire Ferré , Gabriel Stoltz

The asymptotic concentration of the Fr{\'e}chet mean of IID random variables on a Rieman-nian manifold was established with a central limit theorem by Bhattacharya \& Patrangenaru (BP-CLT) [6]. This asymptotic result shows that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Xavier Pennec

We carry out the asymptotic analysis of repulsive ensembles of N particles which are discrete analogues of continuous 1d log-gases or beta-ensembles of random matrix theory. The ensembles that we study have several groups of particles which…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Gaëtan Borot , Vadim Gorin , Alice Guionnet

This work concerns about stochastic Burgers type equations with reflection. First of all, by means of the equicontinuous uniform Laplace principle, we prove the Freidlin-Wentzell uniform large deviation principle for these equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Huijie Qiao

Entropy regularization in optimal transport (OT) has been the driver of many recent interests for Wasserstein metrics and barycenters in machine learning. It allows to keep the appealing geometrical properties of the unregularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-05 Hicham Janati , Marco Cuturi , Alexandre Gramfort

We study the existence and uniqueness of the barycenter of a signed distribution of probability measures on a Hilbert space. The barycenter is found, as usual, as a minimum of a functional. In the case where the positive part of the signed…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Francesco Tornabene , Marco Veneroni , Giuseppe Savaré

Increasingly large parameter spaces, used to more accurately model precision observables in physics, can paradoxically lead to large deviations in the inferred parameters of interest -- a bias known as volume projection effects -- when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Alexander Reeves , Pierre Zhang , Henry Zheng

We introduce and study a variant of the Wasserstein distance on the space of probability measures, specially designed to deal with measures whose support has a dendritic, or treelike structure with a particular direction of orientation. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass , David J. Schneider

Posterior contractions rates (PCRs) strengthen the notion of Bayesian consistency, quantifying the speed at which the posterior distribution concentrates on arbitrarily small neighborhoods of the true model, with probability tending to 1 or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Federico Camerlenghi , Emanuele Dolera , Stefano Favaro , Edoardo Mainini

The time decay of fully discrete finite-volume approximations of porous-medium and fast-diffusion equations with Neumann or periodic boundary conditions is proved in the entropy sense. The algebraic or exponential decay rates are computed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Ansgar Jüngel , Stefan Schuchnigg

We establish precise upper-tail asymptotics and large deviation principles for the rightmost eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ of Wigner matrices with sub-Gaussian entries. In contrast to the case of heavier tails, where deviations of $\lambda_1$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Nicholas A. Cook , Raphael Ducatez , Alice Guionnet

We prove a large deviation principle for the point process associated to $k$-element connected components in $\mathbb R^d$ with respect to the connectivity radii $r_n\to\infty$. The random points are generated from a homogeneous Poisson…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Christian Hirsch , Takashi Owada

We give a new proof of the large deviation principle from the hydrodynamic limit for the Ginzberg-Landau model studied in Donsker and Varadhan (1989) using techniques from the theory of stochastic control and weak convergence methods. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Sayan Banerjee , Amarjit Budhiraja , Michael Perlmutter

Flexible Bayesian models are typically constructed using limits of large parametric models with a multitude of parameters that are often uninterpretable. In this article, we offer a novel alternative by constructing an exponentially tilted…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-20 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

We consider a general d-dimensional quantum system of non-interacting particles, with suitable statistics, in a very large (formally infinite) container. We prove that, in equilibrium, the fluctuations in the density of particles in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joel L. Lebowitz , Marco Lenci , Herbert Spohn

We study the fixed-support Wasserstein barycenter problem (FS-WBP), which consists in computing the Wasserstein barycenter of $m$ discrete probability measures supported on a finite metric space of size $n$. We show first that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Tianyi Lin , Nhat Ho , Xi Chen , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

We study the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between the empirical distribution and the marginal distribution of stationary $\alpha$-dependent sequences. We prove some moments inequalities of order p for any p $\ge$ 1, and we give some…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Jérôme Dedecker , Florence Merlevède

We introduce weak barycenters of a family of probability distributions, based on the recently developed notion of optimal weak transport of mass by Gozlanet al. (2017) and Backhoff-Veraguas et al. (2020). We provide a theoretical analysis…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-13 Elsa Cazelles , Felipe Tobar , Joaquín Fontbona

Given an $n$-dimensional random vector $X^{(n)}$ , for $k < n$, consider its $k$-dimensional projection $\mathbf{a}_{n,k}X^{(n)}$, where $\mathbf{a}_{n,k}$ is an $n \times k$-dimensional matrix belonging to the Stiefel manifold…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Steven Soojin Kim , Kavita Ramanan