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Gromov-Hausdorff distances measure shape difference between the objects representable as compact metric spaces, e.g. point clouds, manifolds, or graphs. Computing any Gromov-Hausdorff distance is equivalent to solving an NP-Hard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Vladyslav Oles , Nathan Lemons , Alexander Panchenko

In this paper, we investigate compact ultrametric measure spaces which form a subset $\mathcal{U}^w$ of the collection of all metric measure spaces $\mathcal{M}^w$. Similar as for the ultrametric Gromov-Hausdorff distance on the collection…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Facundo Mémoli , Axel Munk , Zhengchao Wan , Christoph Weitkamp

The computation of exact barycenters for a set of discrete measures is of interest in applications where sparse solutions are desired, and to assess the quality of solutions returned by approximate algorithms and heuristics. The task is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Steffen Borgwardt , Stephan Patterson

Given a collection of probability measures, a practitioner sometimes needs to find an "average" distribution which adequately aggregates reference distributions. A theoretically appealing notion of such an average is the Wasserstein…

We introduce a weak notion of barycenter of a probability measure $\mu$ on a metric measure space $(X, d, {\bf m})$, with the metric $d$ and reference measure ${\bf m}$. Under the assumption that optimal transport plans are given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass

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

This paper investigates the problem of graph signal recovery (GSR) when the topology of the graph is not known in advance. In this paper, the elements of the weighted adjacency matrix is statistically related to normal distribution and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-19 Razieh Torkamani , Hadi Zayyani

We study the complexity of approximating Wassertein barycenter of $m$ discrete measures, or histograms of size $n$ by contrasting two alternative approaches, both using entropic regularization. The first approach is based on the Iterative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Alexey Kroshnin , Darina Dvinskikh , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , Nazarii Tupitsa , Cesar Uribe

Braided convolutional codes (BCCs) are a class of spatially coupled turbo-like codes (SC-TCs) with excellent belief propagation (BP) thresholds. In this paper, we analyze the performance of BCCs in the finite block-length regime. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Saeedeh Moloudi , Michael Lentmaier , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Gromov-Wasserstein distances are generalization of Wasserstein distances, which are invariant under distance preserving transformations. Although a simplified version of optimal transport in Wasserstein spaces, called linear optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Florian Beier , Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

We introduce a general class of transport distances ${\rm WB}_{\Lambda}$ over the space of positive semi-definite matrix-valued Radon measures $\mathcal{M}(\Omega,\mathbb{S}_+^n)$, called the weighted Wasserstein-Bures distance. Such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Bowen Li , Jun Zou

We propose an algorithm using the Gaussian elimination method to find the minimal Hamming distance and decode received messages of linear codes. This algorithm is easy to implement as it requires no Gr\"obner bases to compute solutions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tianshuo Yang

Prior work inspired by compression algorithms has described how the Burrows Wheeler Transform can be used to create a distance measure for bioinformatics problems. We describe issues with this approach that were not widely known, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Edward Raff , Charles Nicholas , Mark McLean

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

We propose an efficient federated dual decomposition algorithm for calculating the Wasserstein barycenter of several distributions, including choosing the support of the solution. The algorithm does not access local data and uses only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhengqi Lin , Andrzej Ruszczyński

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

In this paper, we first propose a Bayesian neighborhood selection method to estimate Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs). We show the graph selection consistency of this method in the sense that the posterior probability of the true model…

Applications · Statistics 2015-07-08 Zhixiang Lin , Tao Wang , Can Yang , Hongyu Zhao

Distributed systems require fusing heterogeneous local probability distributions into a global summary over sparse and unreliable communication networks. Traditional consensus algorithms, which average distributions in Euclidean space,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ali Baheri , Alireza Vahid

Graph data augmentation has shown superiority in enhancing generalizability and robustness of GNNs in graph-level classifications. However, existing methods primarily focus on the augmentation in the graph signal space and the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xinyu Ma , Xu Chu , Yasha Wang , Yang Lin , Junfeng Zhao , Liantao Ma , Wenwu Zhu

The discrete Wasserstein barycenter problem is a minimum-cost mass transport problem for a set of probability measures with finite support. In this paper, we show that finding a barycenter of sparse support is hard, even in dimension 2 and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Steffen Borgwardt , Stephan Patterson