Information Geometry of Wasserstein Statistics on Shapes and Affine Deformations

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Main Authors: Amari, Shun-ichi, Matsuda, Takeru
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author Amari, Shun-ichi
Matsuda, Takeru
author_facet Amari, Shun-ichi
Matsuda, Takeru
contents Information geometry and Wasserstein geometry are two main structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions, and they capture its different characteristics. We study characteristics of Wasserstein geometry in the framework of Li and Zhao (2023) for the affine deformation statistical model, which is a multi-dimensional generalization of the location-scale model. We compare merits and demerits of estimators based on information geometry and Wasserstein geometry. The shape of a probability distribution and its affine deformation are separated in the Wasserstein geometry, showing its robustness against the waveform perturbation in exchange for the loss in Fisher efficiency. We show that the Wasserstein estimator is the moment estimator in the case of the elliptically symmetric affine deformation model. It coincides with the information-geometrical estimator (maximum-likelihood estimator) when the waveform is Gaussian. The role of the Wasserstein efficiency is elucidated in terms of robustness against waveform change.
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spellingShingle Information Geometry of Wasserstein Statistics on Shapes and Affine Deformations
Amari, Shun-ichi
Matsuda, Takeru
Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
Information geometry and Wasserstein geometry are two main structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions, and they capture its different characteristics. We study characteristics of Wasserstein geometry in the framework of Li and Zhao (2023) for the affine deformation statistical model, which is a multi-dimensional generalization of the location-scale model. We compare merits and demerits of estimators based on information geometry and Wasserstein geometry. The shape of a probability distribution and its affine deformation are separated in the Wasserstein geometry, showing its robustness against the waveform perturbation in exchange for the loss in Fisher efficiency. We show that the Wasserstein estimator is the moment estimator in the case of the elliptically symmetric affine deformation model. It coincides with the information-geometrical estimator (maximum-likelihood estimator) when the waveform is Gaussian. The role of the Wasserstein efficiency is elucidated in terms of robustness against waveform change.
title Information Geometry of Wasserstein Statistics on Shapes and Affine Deformations
topic Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12508