4 papers
Smoothed estimation of Wasserstein barycenters
Pengtao Li, Changbo Zhu, Xiaohui Chen
This paper studies the statistical estimation of exact Wasserstein barycenters. Existing non-asymptotic results for empirical barycenters exhibit a severe curse of dimensionality.…
Kantorovich Regression Analysis of Random Distributions with Mixed Predictors
Kaheon Kim, Changbo Zhu
We study regression problems with distribution-valued responses and mixed distributional and Euclidean predictors. In quadratic cost, the negative gradient of the Kantorovich poten…
Sobolev Gradient Ascent for Optimal Transport: Barycenter Optimization and Convergence Analysis
Kaheon Kim, Bohan Zhou, Changbo Zhu +1
This paper introduces a new constraint-free concave dual formulation for the Wasserstein barycenter. Tailoring the vanilla dual gradient ascent algorithm to the Sobolev geometry, w…
Optimal Transport Barycenter via Nonconvex-Concave Minimax Optimization
Kaheon Kim, Rentian Yao, Changbo Zhu +1
The optimal transport barycenter (a.k.a. Wasserstein barycenter) is a fundamental notion of averaging that extends from the Euclidean space to the Wasserstein space of probability…