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Let $M$ be a simply-connected compact Riemannian symmetric space, and $U$ a twice-differentiable function on $M$, with unique global minimum at $x^* \in M$. The idea of the present work is to replace the problem of searching for the global…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Salem Said , Jonathan H. Manton

This paper presents a new method for conditional probability density simulation. The method is design to work with unstructured data set when data are not characterized by the same covariates yet share common information. Specific examples…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Esteban G. Tabak , Giulio Trigila , Wenjun Zhao

We develop a general theory to address a consensus-based combination of estimations in a parallelized or distributed estimation setting. Taking into account the possibility of very discrepant estimations, instead of a full consensus we…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-12 P. C. Álvarez-Esteban , E. del Barrio , J. A. Cuesta-Albertos , C. Matrán

We study the problem of learning a real-valued function that satisfies the Demographic Parity constraint. It demands the distribution of the predicted output to be independent of the sensitive attribute. We consider the case that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-24 Evgenii Chzhen , Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri , Luca Oneto , Massimiliano Pontil

The Wasserstein barycenter problem is to compute the average of $m$ given probability measures, which has been widely studied in many different areas; however, real-world data sets are often noisy and huge, which impedes its applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xu Wang , Jiawei Huang , Qingyuan Yang , Jinpeng Zhang

This short paper presents a general approach for computing robust Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams. The classical method consists in computing assignment arithmetic means after finding the optimal transport plans between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Keanu Sisouk , Eloi Tanguy , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

Many learning tasks represent responses as multivariate probability measures, requiring repeated computation of weighted barycenters in Wasserstein space. In multivariate settings, transport barycenters are often computationally demanding…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-05 Tao Wang , Qiannan Huang , Jun Zhu , Cheng Meng

Randomness in financial markets requires modern and robust multivariate models of risk measures. This paper proposes a new approach for modeling multivariate risk measures under Wasserstein barycenters of probability measures supported on…

Applications · Statistics 2020-08-14 M. Andrea Arias-Serna , Jean-Michel Loubes , Francisco J. Caro-Lopera

This work establishes fast rates of convergence for empirical barycenters over a large class of geodesic spaces with curvature bounds in the sense of Alexandrov. More specifically, we show that parametric rates of convergence are achievable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Thibaut Le Gouic , Quentin Paris , Philippe Rigollet , Austin J. Stromme

We propose to compute Wasserstein barycenters (WBs) by solving for Monge maps with variational principle. We discuss the metric properties of WBs and explore their connections, especially the connections of Monge WBs, to K-means clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Liang Mi

Let $Y$ be a nonnegative random variable with mean $\mu$ and finite positive variance $\sigma^2$, and let $Y^s$, defined on the same space as $Y$, have the $Y$ size biased distribution, that is, the distribution characterized by…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Subhankar Ghosh , Larry Goldstein

This work studies the convergence and finite sample approximations of entropic regularized Wasserstein distances in the Hilbert space setting. Our first main result is that for Gaussian measures on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-16 Minh Ha Quang

Wasserstein balls, which contain all probability measures within a pre-specified Wasserstein distance to a reference measure, have recently enjoyed wide popularity in the distributionally robust optimization and machine learning communities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Man-Chung Yue , Daniel Kuhn , Wolfram Wiesemann

We introduce a class of flows on the Wasserstein space of probability measures with finite first moment on the Cartan-Hadamard Riemannian manifold of positive definite matrices, and consider the problem of differentiability of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Fumio Hiai , Yongdo Lim

This paper presents a computational framework for the concise encoding of an ensemble of persistence diagrams, in the form of weighted Wasserstein barycenters [100], [102] of a dictionary of atom diagrams. We introduce a multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Keanu Sisouk , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

We investigate the notion of Wasserstein median as an alternative to the Wasserstein barycenter, which has become popular but may be sensitive to outliers. In terms of robustness to corrupted data, we indeed show that Wasserstein medians…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Guillaume Carlier , Enis Chenchene , Katharina Eichinger

Data represented by probability measures arise as empirical distributions, posterior distributions, and feature-based representations of complex objects. We study heterogeneity in a population of probability measures through the expected…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Kisung You

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

Barcodes form a complete set of invariants for interval decomposable persistence modules and are an important summary in topological data analysis. The set of barcodes is equipped with a canonical one-parameter family of metrics, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Wanchen Zhao , Peter Bubenik

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