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In this article we study a variational problem providing a way to extend for all times minimizing geodesics connecting two given probability measures, in the Wasserstein space. This is simply obtained by allowing for negative coefficients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Thomas O. Gallouët , Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

Wasserstein barycenters and variance-like criteria based on the Wasserstein distance are used in many problems to analyze the homogeneity of collections of distributions and structural relationships between the observations. We propose the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Eustasio Del Barrio , Paula Gordaliza , Hélène Lescornel , Jean-Michel Loubes

Wasserstein barycenter is the centroid of a collection of discrete probability distributions which minimizes the average of the $\ell_2$-Wasserstein distance. This paper focuses on the computation of Wasserstein barycenters under the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Yitian Qian , Shaohua Pan

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

Barycentric averaging is a principled way of summarizing populations of measures. Existing algorithms for estimating barycenters typically parametrize them as weighted sums of Diracs and optimize their weights and/or locations. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-16 Samuel Cohen , Michael Arbel , Marc Peter Deisenroth

In this work clustering schemes for uncertain and structured data are considered relying on the notion of Wasserstein barycenters, accompanied by appropriate clustering indices based on the intrinsic geometry of the Wasserstein space where…

The Wasserstein barycenter is a geometric construct which captures the notion of centrality among probability distributions, and which has found many applications in machine learning. However, most algorithms for finding even an approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zachary Izzo , Sandeep Silwal , Samson Zhou

Equilibrium multi-population matching (matching for teams) is a problem from mathematical economics which is related to multi-marginal optimal transport. A special but important case is the Wasserstein barycenter problem, which has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Guillaume Carlier , Adam Oberman , Edouard Oudet

The optimal transportation problem defines a geometry of probability measures which leads to a definition for weighted averages (barycenters) of measures, finding application in the machine learning and computer vision communities as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 David Gentile , James M. Murphy

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the progressive approximation of Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams, with applications to the visual analysis of ensemble data. Given a set of scalar fields, our approach enables…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Jules Vidal , Joseph Budin , Julien Tierny

The notion of entropy-regularized optimal transport, also known as Sinkhorn divergence, has recently gained popularity in machine learning and statistics, as it makes feasible the use of smoothed optimal transportation distances for data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Jérémie Bigot , Elsa Cazelles , Nicolas Papadakis

We present and study a novel algorithm for the computation of 2-Wasserstein population barycenters of absolutely continuous probability measures on Euclidean space. The proposed method can be seen as a stochastic gradient descent procedure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Joaquin Fontbona , Gonzalo Rios , Felipe Tobar

We propose a hybrid resampling method to approximate finitely supported Wasserstein barycenters on large-scale datasets, which can be combined with any exact solver. Nonasymptotic bounds on the expected error of the objective value as well…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-28 Florian Heinemann , Axel Munk , Yoav Zemel

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

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

In this paper, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rate of the empirical measures of point processes under the Wasserstein distance. To this end, we first introduce a new metric on the space of counting measures…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Dongzhou Huang , Tianyi Jiang , Haonan Wang

In this article, we study Wasserstein-type metrics and corresponding barycenters for mixtures of a chosen subset of probability measures called atoms hereafter. In particular, this works extends what was proposed by Delon and Desolneux [A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Geneviève Dusson , Virginie Ehrlacher , Nathalie Nouaime

In this paper, we focus on computational aspects of the Wasserstein barycenter problem. We propose two algorithms to compute Wasserstein barycenters of $m$ discrete measures of size $n$ with accuracy $\e$. The first algorithm, based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Darina Dvinskikh , Daniil Tiapkin

The discrete distribution is often used to describe complex instances in machine learning, such as images, sequences, and documents. Traditionally, clustering of discrete distributions (D2C) has been approached using Wasserstein barycenter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zixiao Wang , Dong Qiao , Jicong Fan

We investigate barycenters of Gaussian process laws in adapted Wasserstein space. The adapted Wasserstein distance refines classical optimal transport by enforcing compatibility of transport plans with the temporal flow of information, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Francesco Mattesini , Johannes Wiesel