This paper discusses the theoretical foundations for manifold learning algorithms in the space of absolutely continuous probability measures.
The focus is on building submanifolds in the absolute continuous probability measure space, using the Wasserstein-2 distance as the metric.
These submanifolds allow for local linearizations, similar to Riemannian submanifolds of Euclidean space.
The paper also presents methods for learning the latent manifold structure and recovering tangent spaces using pairwise extrinsic Wasserstein distances and spectral analysis.