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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

Squared Wasserstein distance is a frequently used tool to measure discrepancy between probability distributions. This distance is typically computed between empirical measures of size $n$ from two underlying random samples. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Peter Matthew Jacobs , Jeff M. Phillips

The time evolution of the trace distance between two states of an open quantum system may increase due to initial system-environment correlations, thus exhibiting a breakdown of distance contractivity of the reduced dynamics. We analyze how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Jerzy Dajka , Jerzy Łuczka , Peter Hänggi

Nowadays, geometric tools are being used to treat a huge class of problems of quantum information science. By understanding the interplay between the geometry of the state space and information-theoretic quantities, it is possible to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Diego Paiva Pires , Lucas C. Céleri , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

We study quantum neural networks where the generated function is the expectation value of the sum of single-qubit observables across all qubits. In [Girardi \emph{et al.}, arXiv:2402.08726], it is proven that the probability distributions…

We introduce folded optimal transport, as a method to extend a cost or distance defined on the extreme boundary of a convex to the whole convex, related to convex extension. This construction broadens the framework of standard optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Thomas Borsoni

This article is dedicated to the estimation of Wasserstein distances and Wasserstein costs between two distinct continuous distributions $F$ and $G$ on $\mathbb R$. The estimator is based on the order statistics of (possibly dependent)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Philippe Berthet , Jean-Claude Fort , Thierry Klein

Combining gravity with quantum theory is still work in progress. On the one hand, classical gravity, is the geometry of space-time determined by the energy-momentum tensor of matter and the resulting nonlinear equations; on the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 P. Gusin , D. Burys , A. Radosz

We establish various bounds on the solutions to a Stein equation for Poisson approximation in Wasserstein distance with non-linear transportation costs. The proofs are a refinement of those in [Barbour and Xia (2006)] using the results in…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Zhong-Wei Liao , Yutao Ma , Aihua Xia

The sliced Wasserstein metric compares probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by taking averages of the Wasserstein distances between projections of the measures to lines. The distance has found a range of applications in statistics and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Sangmin Park , Dejan Slepčev

We consider random walks $X,Y$ on a finite graph $G$ with respective lazinesses $\alpha, \beta \in [0,1]$. Let $\mu_k$ and $\nu_k$ be the $k$-step transition probability measures of $X$ and $Y$. In this paper, we study the Wasserstein…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Sophia Benjamin , Arushi Mantri , Quinn Perian

Wasserstein distances provide a powerful framework for comparing data distributions. They can be used to analyze processes over time or to detect inhomogeneities within data. However, simply calculating the Wasserstein distance or analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Philip Naumann , Jacob Kauffmann , Grégoire Montavon

We develop a general approach to setting up and studying classes of quantum dynamical systems close to and structurally similar to systems having specified properties, in particular detailed balance. This is done in terms of transport plans…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rocco Duvenhage , Samuel Skosana , Machiel Snyman

The statistical distance between pure quantum states is obtained by finding a measurement that is optimal in a sense defined by Wootters. As such, one may expect that the statistical distance will turn out to be different if the set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Scott M. Cohen

The Wasserstein distance received a lot of attention recently in the community of machine learning, especially for its principled way of comparing distributions. It has found numerous applications in several hard problems, such as domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Mélanie Ducoffe

In this article, we generalize the Wasserstein distance to measures with different masses. We study the properties of such distance. In particular, we show that it metrizes weak convergence for tight sequences. We use this generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

We present upper bounds for the Wasserstein distance of order $p$ between the marginals of L\'evy processes, including Gaussian approximations for jumps of infinite activity. Using the convolution structure, we further derive upper bounds…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Ester Mariucci , Markus Reiß

It is well known that the quadratic Wasserstein distance $W_2 (\mathord{\boldsymbol{\cdot}}, \mathord{\boldsymbol{\cdot}})$ is formally equivalent, for infinitesimally small perturbations, to some weighted $H^{-1}$ homogeneous Sobolev norm.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Rémi Peyre

The Wigner-Yanase skew information stands for the uncertainty about the information on the values of observables not commuting with the conserved quantity. The Wigner-Yanase skew information-based uncertainty relations can be regarded as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Qing-Hua Zhang , Shao-ming Fei

The Hilbert-Schmidt distance between a mixed three-qubit state and its closest state is used to quantify the amount of pairwise quantum correlations in a tripartite system. Analytical expressions of geometric quantum discord are derived. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Daoud , R. Ahl Laamara , S. Seddik