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Optimal transport with some directed distances

Information Theory 2021-07-02 v1 math.IT Probability Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a toolkit of directed distances between quantile functions. By employing this, we solve some new optimal transport (OT) problems which e.g. considerably flexibilize some prominent OTs expressed through Wasserstein distances.

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@article{arxiv.2105.05989,
  title  = {Optimal transport with some directed distances},
  author = {Wolfgang Stummer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05989},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages

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