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Consider the one-dimensional stochastic Helmholtz equation where the source is assumed to be driven by the white noise. This paper concerns the stability analysis of the inverse random source problem which is to reconstruct the statistical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Peijun Li , Ganghua Yuan

We study the convergence rate of the optimal quantization for a probability measure sequence $(\mu_{n})_{n\in\mathbb{N}^{*}}$ on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ converging in the Wasserstein distance in two aspects: the first one is the convergence rate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Yating Liu , Gilles Pagès

The problem of estimating the probability distribution of labels has been widely studied as a label distribution learning (LDL) problem, whose applications include age estimation, emotion analysis, and semantic segmentation. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ayato Toyokuni , Sho Yokoi , Hisashi Kashima , Makoto Yamada

We analyze a number of natural estimators for the optimal transport map between two distributions and show that they are minimax optimal. We adopt the plugin approach: our estimators are simply optimal couplings between measures derived…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Tudor Manole , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Larry Wasserman

For statistical models on circles, we investigate performance of estimators defined as the projections of the empirical distribution with respect to the Wasserstein distance. We develop algorithms for computing the Wasserstein projection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Naoki Otani , Takeru Matsuda

We use a Korevaar-style maximum principle approach to show the following: Fixing a $C^{2}$ bound on the log densities of a set of smooth measures, there is a quantifiably-sized Wasserstein neighborhood over which all pairs of such measures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Micah Warren

Let $\mu_N$ be the empirical measure associated to a $N$-sample of a given probability distribution $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We are interested in the rate of convergence of $\mu_N$ to $\mu$, when measured in the Wasserstein distance of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin

We study the perturbation of a measure $\mu \in \mathscr{P}(\mathbb{R})$ consisting in superposing two copies of $\mu$, each slightly shifted by a small distance $\pm h$. The difference between $\mu$ and its perturbation is measured with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Averil Aussedat

The validation of global climate models is crucial to ensure the accuracy and efficacy of model output. We introduce the spherical convolutional Wasserstein distance to more comprehensively measure differences between climate models and…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-05 Robert C. Garrett , Trevor Harris , Bo Li , Zhuo Wang

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 the last couple of years, several adversarial attack methods based on different threat models have been proposed for the image classification problem. Most existing defenses consider additive threat models in which sample perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

Optimization over the space of probability measures endowed with the Wasserstein-2 geometry is central to modern machine learning and mean-field modeling. However, traditional methods relying on full Wasserstein gradients often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Yewei Xu , Qin Li

Issued from Optimal Transport, the Wasserstein distance has gained importance in Machine Learning due to its appealing geometrical properties and the increasing availability of efficient approximations. In this work, we consider the problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-21 Guillaume Staerman , Pierre Laforgue , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Florence d'Alché-Buc

The Wasserstein metric is broadly used in optimal transport for comparing two probabilistic distributions, with successful applications in various fields such as machine learning, signal processing, seismic inversion, etc. Nevertheless, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Qichen Liao , Jing Chen , Zihao Wang , Bo Bai , Shi Jin , Hao Wu

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

Controlling the $\mathcal W_\infty$ Wasserstein distance by the $\mathcal W_p$ Wasserstein distance is interesting both for theorical and numerical applications. A first paper on this problem was written several years ago [3]. Some year…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Luigi De Pascale , Igor Pinheiro

Langevin diffusion processes and their discretizations are often used for sampling from a target density. The most convenient framework for assessing the quality of such a sampling scheme corresponds to smooth and strongly log-concave…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Arnak S. Dalalyan , Lionel Riou-Durand

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (DRO) aims to find robust and generalizable solutions by hedging against data perturbations in Wasserstein distance. Despite its recent empirical success in operations research and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rui Gao

Data unfolding -- the removal of noise or artifacts from measurements -- is a fundamental task across the experimental sciences. Of particular interest are applications in physics, where the dominant approach is Richardson-Lucy (RL)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Katy Craig , Benjamin Faktor , Benjamin Nachman

We show quantitative stability results for the geometric "cells" arising in semi-discrete optimal transport problems. Our results show two types of stability, the first is stability of the associated Laguerre cells in measure, without any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Mohit Bansil , Jun Kitagawa
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