Computing the distance between unbalanced distributions: the flat metric
We provide an implementation to compute the flat metric in any dimension. The flat metric, also called dual bounded Lipschitz distance, generalizes the well-known Wasserstein distance $$W_1$$to the case that the distributions are of unequal total mass. Thus, our implementation adapts very well to ma...
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Machine learning
Year: 2025, Volume: 114, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-34 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0565 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10994-025-06828-8 |
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| Author Notes: | Henri Schmidt, Christian Düll |
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