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In probability theory, there is a tendency to treat one random variable with a given distribution as being just as good as any other. By and large this is fine because probability is (mostly) concerned with distributional properties of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Douglas Rizzolo

Randomization testing is a fundamental method in statistics, enabling inferential tasks such as testing for (conditional) independence of random variables, constructing confidence intervals in semiparametric location models, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-21 Yash Nair , Lucas Janson

This paper focuses on the challenge of interactively modeling street networks. In this work, we extend the simple fractal model, which is particularly useful for describing small cities or individual districts, by constructing random cities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Geoffrey Deperle , Philippe Jacquet

This paper introduces a new algorithm for the fundamental problem of generating a random integer from a discrete probability distribution using a source of independent and unbiased random coin flips. We prove that this algorithm, which we…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-03 Feras A. Saad , Cameron E. Freer , Martin C. Rinard , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Consider a class of decomposable combinatorial structures, using different types of atoms $\Atoms = \{\At_1,\ldots ,\At_{|{\Atoms}|}\}$. We address the random generation of such structures with respect to a size $n$ and a targeted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Alain Denise , Yann Ponty , Michel Termier

Randomized compilation protocols have recently attracted attention as alternatives to traditional deterministic Trotter-Suzuki methods, potentially reducing circuit depth and resource overhead. These protocols determine gate application…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Yun-Zhuo Fan , Yu-Xia Wu , Dan-Bo Zhang

An iterative randomness extraction algorithm which generalized the Von Neumann's extraction algorithm is detailed, analyzed and implemented in standard C++. Given a sequence of independently and identically distributed biased Bernoulli…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Claude Gravel

Diffusion models, which convert noise into new data instances by learning to reverse a diffusion process, have become a cornerstone in contemporary generative modeling. In this work, we develop non-asymptotic convergence theory for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gen Li , Yuting Wei , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

Invertible flow-based generative models are an effective method for learning to generate samples, while allowing for tractable likelihood computation and inference. However, the invertibility requirement restricts models to have the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Abhishek Kumar , Ben Poole , Kevin Murphy

In this paper we study the randomized non-autonomous complete linear differential equation. The diffusion coefficient and the source term in the differential equation are assumed to be stochastic processes and the initial condition is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 J. Catatayud , J. -C. Cortes , M. Jornet

We propose the K-series estimation approach for the recovery of unknown univariate and multivariate distributions given knowledge of a finite number of their moments. Our method is directly applicable to the probabilistic analysis of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Andrey Kofnov , Ezio Bartocci , Efstathia Bura

We show how to design a universal shape replicator in a self-assembly system with both attractive and repulsive forces. More precisely, we show that there is a universal set of constant-size objects that, when added to any unknown hole-free…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Cameron Chalk , Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Eric Martinez , Robert Schweller , Luis Vega , Tim Wylie

The probability density function (PDF) associated with a given set of samples is approximated by a piecewise-linear polynomial constructed with respect to a binning of the sample space. The kernel functions are a compactly supported basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Giacomo Capodaglio , Max Gunzburger

A novel approach towards construction of absolutely continuous distributions over the unit interval is proposed. Considering two absolutely continuous random variables with positive support, this method conditions on their convolution to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Aniket Biswas , Subrata Chakraborty

We show that probabilistic computable functions, i.e., those functions outputting distributions and computed by probabilistic Turing machines, can be characterized by a natural generalization of Church and Kleene's partial recursive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Ugo Dal Lago , Sara Zuppiroli

In this paper, we introduce a new method for computing generating functions with respect to the number of descents and left-to-right minima over the set of permutations which have no consecutive occurrences of a pattern that starts with 1.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Miles Eli Jones , Jeffrey B. Remmel

There is a growing need for the ability to analyse interval-valued data. However, existing descriptive frameworks to achieve this ignore the process by which interval-valued data are typically constructed; namely by the aggregation of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-08 Xin Zhang , Boris Beranger , Scott A. Sisson

We provide an efficient algorithm to generate random samples from the bounded kth order statistic in a sample of independent, but not necessarily identically distributed, random variables. The bounds can be upper or lower bounds and need…

Computation · Statistics 2019-05-13 Tyler Morrison , Sean Pinkney

We give a new proof of the fact that, near a turning point of the frozen boundary, the vertical tiles in a uniformly random lozenge tiling of a large sawtooth domain are distributed like the eigenvalues of a GUE random matrix. Our argument…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Jonathan Novak

We address learning from positive and unlabeled (PU) data, a common setting in which only some positives are labeled and the rest are mixed with negatives. Classical exponential tilting models guarantee identifiability by assuming a linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Peijun Sang , Yifan Sun , Qinglong Tian , Donglin Zeng , Pengfei Li