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Existence and consistency of Wasserstein barycenters

Probability Theory and Related Fields. 2017. P. 901–917.
Loubes J., Le Gouic T.

Based on the Fréchet mean, we define a notion of barycenter corresponding to a usual notion of statistical mean. We prove the existence of Wasserstein barycenters of random probabilities defined on a geodesic space (E, d). We also prove the consistency of this barycenter in a general setting, that includes taking barycenters of empirical versions of the probability measures or of a growing set of probability measures.

Priority areas: IT and mathematics mathematics
Language: English
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Keywords: existencebarycenterWasserstein metric
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