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Simplify Kantorovich–Rubinstein duality when distributions share a common marginal
Consider the product of two metric spaces $X\times Y$, and two probability distributions $\mu$ and $\nu$ on this product space. By the Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality, I can write the Wasserstein-1-...
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Earth movers distance (EMD) between two multivariate normals. Is it negative definite distance?
I was looking at the closed form formula for 2-Wassersteins distance for multivariate normal distribution on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserstein_metric#Normal_distributions
It has a ...