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Estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance. (arXiv:1902.01778v1 [math.ST])
来源于:arXiv
The Wasserstein distances are a set of metrics on probability distributions
supported on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with applications throughout statistics and machine
learning. Often, such distances are used in the context of variational
problems, in which the statistician employs in place of an unknown measure a
proxy constructed on the basis of independent samples. This raises the basic
question of how well measures can be approximated in Wasserstein distance.
While it is known that an empirical measure comprising i.i.d. samples is
rate-optimal for general measures, no improved results were known for measures
possessing smooth densities. We prove the first minimax rates for estimation of
smooth densities for general Wasserstein distances, thereby showing how the
curse of dimensionality can be alleviated for sufficiently regular measures. We
also show how to construct discretely supported measures, suitable for
computational purposes, which enjoy improved rates. Our approach is based on
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