arXiv:2607. 24235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past 20 years, kernel discrepancies have been leveraged as a highly powerful tool for quantifying the disagreement of distributions, with numerous successful applications in two-sample, goodness-of-fit, and independence testing, among others.
By Jose Cribeiro-Ramallo, Florian Kalinke, Zolt\'an Szab\'o
arXiv:2512. 13997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing two-sample testing techniques, particularly those based on choosing a kernel for the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), often assume equal sample sizes from the two distributions.
By Aaron Wei, Milad Jalali, Danica J. Sutherland
arXiv:2501. 18897v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models have achieved remarkable success across a range of applications, yet their evaluation still lacks principled uncertainty quantification.
By Zijun Gao, Yan Sun, Han Su
arXiv:2504. 11299v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We revisit extending the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between probability distributions to the multi-dimensional setting, and make new arguments about the proper way to approach this generalization.
By Peter Matthew Jacobs, Foad Namjoo, Jeff M. Phillips
arXiv:2607. 20119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Directional Kernel Mean Difference (DKMD), a signed statistic for univariate distribution comparison that preserves the direction of distributional shifts.
By Shijie Zhong, Jiangfeng Fu
arXiv:2607. 15645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by the challenge of testing distributions over high-dimensional or continuous domains, we study distribution testing with respect to bounded classes of distinguishers.
By Mark Bun, Rathin Desai, Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr
arXiv:2608. 01268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting that a stream of high-dimensional embeddings has changed is usually framed as a choice of statistic.
By Adel Kaleche
arXiv:2607. 19510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM deployments use a number of implementation choices and inference optimizations (e.
By Eric Price, Kevin Tian, Zhiyang Xun, Yusong Zhu
The article introduces PTED, a Python implementation of a permutation test based on the Energy Distance for two-sample testing in multiple dimensions. PTED uses pairwise distances to compute a test statistic that works in high dimensions, on learned feature representations, and for any data type where a distance can be defined. The authors demonstrate that PTED scales linearly with dimensions and sample size while retaining strong discriminative power, and show it outperforms other multi‑dimensional tests in sensitivity.
By Connor Stone
The paper introduces a unified framework for dataset condensation (DC) that generalizes existing methods by using discrepancy measures to quantify the distance between probability distributions. It extends the traditional goal of DC—creating a small synthetic dataset that preserves generalization—to include additional objectives such as robustness and privacy. The framework positions DC as a formal approximation problem, broadening its applicability across different machine learning regimes.
By Tong Chen, Raghavendra Selvan
arXiv:2402. 11736v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Kernel herding belongs to a family of deterministic quadratures that seek to minimize the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), that is, the worst-case integration error over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS).
By Martin Rouault, R\'emi Bardenet, Myl\`ene Ma\"ida
arXiv:2608.24881v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative models are commonly ranked by Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID), yet FID's first-two-moment summary c...
By Hao Chen