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Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. This invariance is powerful, but discrete GW is a nonconvex quadratic optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ao Xu , Tieru Wu

Consider the geometric inverse problem: There is a set of delta-sources in spacetime that emit waves travelling at unit speed. If we know all the arrival times at the boundary cylinder of the spacetime, can we reconstruct the space, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maarten V. de Hoop , Joonas Ilmavirta , Matti Lassas , Teemu Saksala

Recovering a low-CP-rank tensor from noisy linear measurements is a central challenge in high-dimensional data analysis, with applications spanning tensor PCA, tensor regression, and beyond. We exploit the intrinsic geometry of rank-one…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-02 Ke Xu , Yuefeng Han

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric spaces. Such a model is defined by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points with probability that depends on their distance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

Embedding graphs in a geographical or latent space, i.e.\ inferring locations for vertices in Euclidean space or on a smooth manifold or submanifold, is a common task in network analysis, statistical inference, and graph visualization. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Varsha Dani , Josep Díaz , Thomas P. Hayes , Cristopher Moore

This paper aims at building the theoretical foundations for manifold learning algorithms in the space of absolutely continuous probability measures $\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{a.c.}}(\Omega)$ with $\Omega$ a compact and convex subset of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-31 Keaton Hamm , Caroline Moosmüller , Bernhard Schmitzer , Matthew Thorpe

Assume that we observe i.i.d.~points lying close to some unknown $d$-dimensional $\mathcal{C}^k$ submanifold $M$ in a possibly high-dimensional space. We study the problem of reconstructing the probability distribution generating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Vincent Divol

We consider reconstruction of a manifold, or, invariant manifold learning, where a smooth Riemannian manifold $M$ is determined from intrinsic distances (that is, geodesic distances) of points in a discrete subset of $M$. In the studied…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Charles Fefferman , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Hariharan Narayanan

This work presents several expected generalization error bounds based on the Wasserstein distance. More specifically, it introduces full-dataset, single-letter, and random-subset bounds, and their analogues in the randomized subsample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-29 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Germán Bassi , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

The problem of recovering the configuration of points from their partial pairwise distances, referred to as the Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem, arises in a broad range of applications, including sensor network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distances define a family of metrics, based on ideas from optimal transport, which enable comparisons between probability measures defined on distinct metric spaces. They are particularly useful in areas such as…

Computing the quadratic transportation metric (also called the $2$-Wasserstein distance or root mean square distance) between two point clouds, or, more generally, two discrete distributions, is a fundamental problem in machine learning,…

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We consider the problem of positioning a cloud of points in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, using noisy measurements of a subset of pairwise distances. This task has applications in various areas, such as sensor network localization and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari

Comparing metric measure spaces (i.e. a metric space endowed with aprobability distribution) is at the heart of many machine learning problems. The most popular distance between such metric measure spaces is theGromov-Wasserstein (GW)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Thibault Séjourné , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

We introduce an estimator for distances in a compact Riemannian manifold based on graph Laplacian estimates of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. We upper bound the error in the estimate of manifold distances, or more precisely an estimate of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Dena Marie Asta

This paper explores the problem of generalized phase retrieval, which involves reconstructing a length-$n$ signal $\bm{x}$ from its $m$ phaseless samples $y_k = \left|\langle \bm{a}_k,\bm{x}\rangle\right|^2$, where $k = 1,2,...,m$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jianfeng Cai , Huiping Li , Jiayi Li

We study the problem of approximately recovering a probability distribution given noisy measurements of its Chebyshev polynomial moments. This problem arises broadly across algorithms, statistics, and machine learning. By leveraging a…

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Topological data analysis is becoming a popular way to study high dimensional feature spaces without any contextual clues or assumptions. This paper concerns itself with one popular topological feature, which is the number of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Rushil Anirudh , Vinay Venkataraman , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Pavan Turaga
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