Invariant Feature Extraction Through Conditional Independence and the Optimal Transport Barycenter Problem: the Gaussian case
- Ian BounosPablo GroismanMariela SuedEsteban Tabak
- 24 December 2025
Mathematics, Computer Science
The methodology's main ingredient is the penalization of any statistical dependence between W and Z conditioned on Y, replaced by the more readily implementable plain independence between W and the random variable Z that solves the [Monge] Optimal Transport Barycenter Problem for Z\mid Y.