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Lifting PCA in the Wasserstein Space

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Oct 21, 2026 · UTC

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for statistical dimension reduction, yet no canonical extension to distribution-valued data has emerged within the framework of optimal transport. While Wasserstein barycenters and Wasserstein least-squares regression provide canonical liftings of Euclidean averaging and linear regression in the Wasserstein space, an analogous principle for PCA has remained unexplored. In this paper, we introduce Lifted PCA, a canonical extension of Euclidean PCA to Wasserstein space, obtained through the framework of lifting functionals in the space of

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