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New Sliced Wasserstein Sketches Offer Compact Probability Distribution Representations

Researchers have developed a method called Sliced Wasserstein Sketches to create compact representations of probability distributions. These sketches allow for efficient and geometrically meaningful comparisons, reducing storage requirements while maintaining classification performance. The technique decomposes error into residual and partition-mismatch terms, providing computable certificates for centroid sketches and showing promise for end-to-end learning as pooling layers. AI

IMPACT Enables more efficient learning from probability distributions, potentially improving classification and end-to-end learning in AI models.

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New Sliced Wasserstein Sketches Offer Compact Probability Distribution Representations

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Elaheh Akbari, James Liu, Keaton Hamm, Soheil Kolouri ·

    Sliced Wasserstein Sketches with Error Certificates

    arXiv:2610.20788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compact representations that support geometrically meaningful comparisons are valuable for learning from probability distributions. We study optimal, free-weight $M$-atom quantization of one-dimensional probability measures in quadr…