“…The motivation of LGW is based on linear optimal transport (LOT), which was introduced by Wang et al [8]. Since its introduction, LOT has been successfully applied for several tasks in nuclear structure-based pathology [9], parametric signal estimation [10], signal and image classification [11,12,13,14], modeling of turbulences [15], cancer detection [16,17,18], Alzheimer disease detection [19], vehicle-type recognition [20] as well as for demultiplexing vortex modes in optical communications [21]. Both LOT and LGW make use of the geometrical structure of the (Gromov-)Wasserstein space and compute distances in the tangent space with respect to some a priori fixed reference.…”