Geodesic PCA versus Log-PCA of Histograms in the Wasserstein Space

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DOI10.1137/17M1143459zbMATH Open1387.62077arXiv1708.08143OpenAlexW2795320988WikidataQ125801157 ScholiaQ125801157MaRDI QIDQ4610140FDOQ4610140


Authors: Elsa Cazelles, Vivien Seguy, Jérémie Bigot, Marco Cuturi, Nicolas Papadakis Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 April 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned by the statistical analysis of data sets whose elements are random histograms. For the purpose of learning principal modes of variation from such data, we consider the issue of computing the PCA of histograms with respect to the 2-Wasserstein distance between probability measures. To this end, we propose to compare the methods of log-PCA and geodesic PCA in the Wasserstein space as introduced by Bigot et al. (2015) and Seguy and Cuturi (2015). Geodesic PCA involves solving a non-convex optimization problem. To solve it approximately, we propose a novel forward-backward algorithm. This allows a detailed comparison between log-PCA and geodesic PCA of one-dimensional histograms, which we carry out using various data sets, and stress the benefits and drawbacks of each method. We extend these results for two-dimensional data and compare both methods in that setting.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08143




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