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We introduce the Wasserstein Transform (WT), a general unsupervised framework for updating distance structures on given data sets with the purpose of enhancing features and denoising. Our framework represents each data point by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kun Jin , Facundo Mémoli , Zane Smith , Zhengchao Wan

We obtain essentially matching upper and lower bounds for the expected max-sliced 1-Wasserstein distance between a probability measure on a separable Hilbert space and its empirical distribution from $n$ samples. By proving a Banach space…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-27 March T. Boedihardjo

The adapted Wasserstein ($AW$) distance refines the classical Wasserstein ($W$) distance by incorporating the temporal structure of stochastic processes. This makes the $AW$-distance well-suited as a robust distance for many dynamic…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Beatrice Acciaio , Songyan Hou , Gudmund Pammer

A new similarity measure for two sets of S-parameters is proposed. It is constructed with the modified Hausdorff distance applied to S-parameter points in 3D space with real, imaginary and normalized frequency axes. New S-parameters…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Yuriy Shlepnev

To measure the similarity of documents, the Wasserstein distance is a powerful tool, but it requires a high computational cost. Recently, for fast computation of the Wasserstein distance, methods for approximating the Wasserstein distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yuki Takezawa , Ryoma Sato , Makoto Yamada

In this paper, we define the generalized Wasserstein distance for sets of Borel probability measures and demonstrate that the weak convergence of sublinear expectations can be characterized by means of this distance.

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Xinpeng Li , Yiqing Lin

The Wasserstein distance is a powerful metric based on the theory of optimal transport. It gives a natural measure of the distance between two distributions with a wide range of applications. In contrast to a number of the common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Jung Hun Oh , Maryam Pouryahya , Aditi Iyer , Aditya P. Apte , Allen Tannenbaum , Joseph O. Deasy

The Sliced Wasserstein (SW) distance has become a popular alternative to the Wasserstein distance for comparing probability measures. Widespread applications include image processing, domain adaptation and generative modelling, where it is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 Eloi Tanguy , Rémi Flamary , Julie Delon

We derive first-order (in the stepsize) bounds on the bias in Wasserstein distances of the invariant measure of stochastic gradient kinetic Langevin dynamics with minimal assumptions on the stochastic gradient noise. These bounds sharpen…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-28 Daniel Paulin , Peter A. Whalley

Wasserstein distances are widely used in modern data analysis but pose significant computational and statistical challenges in high dimensions. The sliced Wasserstein distance alleviates these challenges by leveraging one-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 David Rodríguez-Vítores , Eustasio del Barrio , Jean-Michel Loubes

Optimal transport provides a powerful mathematical framework with applications spanning numerous fields. A cornerstone within this domain is the $p$-Wasserstein distance, which serves to quantify the cost of transporting one probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Emily Beatty , Daniel Stilck França

We study the contraction in Wasserstein distance of the coordinate ascent variational inference algorithm. This is shown to hold under a transport-information inequality at the fixed points and a functional smoothness condition. The results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Rocco Caprio , Adrien Corenflos , Sam Power

The space of Gaussian measures on a Euclidean space is geodesically convex in the $L^2$-Wasserstein space. This space is a finite dimensional manifold since Gaussian measures are parameterized by means and covariance matrices. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Asuka Takatsu

Persistence diagrams (PD)s play a central role in topological data analysis, and are used in an ever increasing variety of applications. The comparison of PD data requires computing comparison metrics among large sets of PDs, with metrics…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Rolando Kindelan Nuñez , Mircea Petrache , Mauricio Cerda , Nancy Hitschfeld

We use weights on objects in an abelian category to define what we call a path metric. We introduce three special classes of weight: those compatible with short exact sequences; those induced by their path metric; and those which bound…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Peter Bubenik , Jonathan Scott , Donald Stanley

We study the Wasserstein metric $W_p$, a notion of distance between two probability distributions, from the perspective of Fourier Analysis and discuss applications. In particular, we bound the Earth Mover Distance $W_1$ between the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Stefan Steinerberger

The weighted Euclidean norm $\|x\|_w$ of a vector $x\in \mathbb{R}^d$ with weights $w\in \mathbb{R}^d$ is the Euclidean norm where the contribution of each dimension is scaled by a given weight. Approaches to dimensionality reduction that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Simone Moretti , Paolo Pellizzoni , Francesco Silvestri

Projection robust Wasserstein (PRW) distance, or Wasserstein projection pursuit (WPP), is a robust variant of the Wasserstein distance. Recent work suggests that this quantity is more robust than the standard Wasserstein distance, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Tianyi Lin , Chenyou Fan , Nhat Ho , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

The question of optimally approximating an arbitrary probability measure in the Wasserstein distance by a discrete one with uniform weights is considered. Estimates are obtained for the optimal approximation distance, with an explicit rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Benjamin Seeger

We propose a new unsupervised anomaly detection method based on the sliced-Wasserstein distance for training data selection in machine learning approaches. Our filtering technique is interesting for decision-making pipelines deploying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Julien Pallage , Antoine Lesage-Landry