Streaming computation of optimal weak transport barycenters

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13380v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:08:02 GMT
• Title: Streaming computation of optimal weak transport barycenters
• Authors: Elsa Cazelles and Felipe Tobar and Joaquin Fontbona
• Abstract summary: We provide a theoretical analysis of the weak barycenter and its relationship to the classic Wasserstein barycenter. We provide iterative algorithms to compute a weak barycenter for either finite or infinite families of arbitrary measures.
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• Abstract: We introduce the weak barycenter of a family of probability distributions, based on the recently developed notion of optimal weak transport of measures arXiv:1412.7480(v4). We provide a theoretical analysis of the weak barycenter and its relationship to the classic Wasserstein barycenter, and discuss its meaning in the light of convex ordering between probability measures. In particular, we argue that, rather than averaging the information of the input distributions as done by the usual optimal transport barycenters, weak barycenters contain geometric information shared across all input distributions, which can be interpreted as a latent random variable affecting all the measures. We also provide iterative algorithms to compute a weak barycenter for either finite or infinite families of arbitrary measures (with finite moments of order 2), which are particularly well suited for the streaming setting, i.e., when measures arrive sequentially. In particular, our streaming computation of weak barycenters does not require to smooth empirical measures or to define a common grid for them, as some of the previous approaches to Wasserstin barycenters do. The concept of weak barycenter and our computation approaches are illustrated on synthetic examples, validated on 2D real-world data and compared to the classical Wasserstein barycenters.

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