Constructive quantization: approximation by empirical measures

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Abstract: In this article, we study the approximation of a probability measure mu on mathbbRd by its empirical measure hatmuN interpreted as a random quantization. As error criterion we consider an averaged p-th moment Wasserstein metric. In the case where 2p<d, we establish refined upper and lower bounds for the error, a high-resolution formula. Moreover, we provide a universal estimate based on moments, a so-called Pierce type estimate. In particular, we show that quantization by empirical measures is of optimal order under weak assumptions.


The authors investigate the approximation of a probability measure \(\mu\) on \(\mathbb{R}^d\), \(d \geq 3\), by its empirical measure w.r.t. the minimal \(L_p\)-metric (\(L_p\)-Wasserstein metric). For \(p \in [1, \frac{1}{d})\) and finite absolute \(q\)-th order moment \(\mu_q\) of \(\mu\) they establish an upper bound of the order of the form \( \kappa \, \mu_q \, N^{-1/d}\), a so-called Pierce type estimate. For the uniform distribution on \([0,1)^d\) they obtain an exact limit theorem of order \(N^{-1/d}\) and establish a corresponding limit result for the optimal quantization by \(N\) points. Further it is shown that the order of quantization by empirical measures is optimal under weak distributional assumptions.



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