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Main Authors: Hamm, Keaton, Khurana, Varun
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09149
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author Hamm, Keaton
Khurana, Varun
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Khurana, Varun
contents We consider structured approximation of measures in Wasserstein space $\mathrm{W}_p(\mathbb{R}^d)$ for $p\in[1,\infty)$ using general measure approximants compactly supported on Voronoi regions derived from a scaled Voronoi partition of $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that if a full rank lattice $Λ$ is scaled by a factor of $h\in(0,1]$, then approximation of a measure based on the Voronoi partition of $hΛ$ is $O(h)$ regardless of $d$ or $p$. We then use a covering argument to show that $N$-term approximations of compactly supported measures is $O(N^{-\frac1d})$ which matches known rates for optimal quantizers and empirical measure approximation in most instances. Additionally, we generalize our construction to nonuniform Voronoi partitions, highlighting the flexibility and robustness of our approach for various measure approximation scenarios. Finally, we extend these results to noncompactly supported measures with sufficient decay. Our findings are pertinent to applications in computer vision and machine learning where measures are used to represent structured data such as images.
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spellingShingle Wasserstein approximation schemes based on Voronoi partitions
Hamm, Keaton
Khurana, Varun
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
We consider structured approximation of measures in Wasserstein space $\mathrm{W}_p(\mathbb{R}^d)$ for $p\in[1,\infty)$ using general measure approximants compactly supported on Voronoi regions derived from a scaled Voronoi partition of $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that if a full rank lattice $Λ$ is scaled by a factor of $h\in(0,1]$, then approximation of a measure based on the Voronoi partition of $hΛ$ is $O(h)$ regardless of $d$ or $p$. We then use a covering argument to show that $N$-term approximations of compactly supported measures is $O(N^{-\frac1d})$ which matches known rates for optimal quantizers and empirical measure approximation in most instances. Additionally, we generalize our construction to nonuniform Voronoi partitions, highlighting the flexibility and robustness of our approach for various measure approximation scenarios. Finally, we extend these results to noncompactly supported measures with sufficient decay. Our findings are pertinent to applications in computer vision and machine learning where measures are used to represent structured data such as images.
title Wasserstein approximation schemes based on Voronoi partitions
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09149