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We present a rejection method based on recursive covering of the probability density function with equal tiles. The concept works for any probability density function that is pointwise computable or representable by tabular data. By the…

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Secure random numbers are a fundamental element of many applications in science, statistics, cryptography and more in general in security protocols. We present a method that enables the generation of high-speed unpredictable random numbers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Davide G. Marangon , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

A method for generating random $U(1)$ variables with Boltzmann distribution is presented. It is based on the rejection method with transformation of variables. High efficiency is achieved for all range of temparatures or coupling…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Tetsuya Hattori , Hideo Nakajima

An infinite convergent sum of independent and identically distributed random variables discounted by a multiplicative random walk is called perpetuity, because of a possible actuarial application. We give three disjoint groups of sufficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Dariusz Buraczewski , Piotr Dyszewski , Alexander Iksanov , Alexander Marynych

We propose an approach for fast random number generation based on homemade optical physical unclonable functions (PUFs). The optical PUF is illuminated with input laser wavefront of continuous modulation to obtain different speckle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Kun Chen , Feng Huang , Pidong Wang , Yongbiao Wan , Dong Li , Yao Yao

In the "stochastic $\delta N$ formalism", the statistics of the inflationary density perturbation are obtained from the first passage distribution of a stochastic process. We develop a general framework in which to evaluate the rare tail of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jaime Calderón-Figueroa , David Seery

Generation of pseudorandom numbers from different probability distributions has been studied extensively in the Monte Carlo simulation literature. Two standard generation techniques are the acceptance-rejection and inverse transformation…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-03-25 Nguyet Nguyen , Giray Ökten

Large deviation theory and instanton calculus for stochastic systems are widely used to gain insight into the evolution and probability of rare events. At its core lies the realization that rare events are, under the right circumstances,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Mnerh Alqahtani , Tobias Grafke

Langevin Dynamics, Monte Carlo, and all-atom Molecular Dynamics simulations in implicit solvent, widely used to access the microscopic transitions in biomolecules, require a reliable source of random numbers. Here we present the two main…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-03-05 A. Zhmurov , K. Rybnikov , Y. Kholodov , V. Barsegov

Normalizing flows are a flexible class of probability distributions, expressed as transformations of a simple base distribution. A limitation of standard normalizing flows is representing distributions with heavy tails, which arise in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Tennessee Hickling , Dennis Prangle

Despite the successes of probabilistic models based on passing noise through neural networks, recent work has identified that such methods often fail to capture tail behavior accurately, unless the tails of the base distribution are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-16 Feynman Liang , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

Sun and Farooq [2] showed that random samples can be efficiently drawn from an arbitrary n-dimensional hyperellipsoid by transforming samples drawn randomly from the unit n-ball. They stated that it was a straightforward to show that, given…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Jonathan D. Gammell , Timothy D. Barfoot

Generating random variates from high-dimensional distributions is often done approximately using Markov chain Monte Carlo. In certain cases, perfect simulation algorithms exist that allow one to draw exactly from the stationary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Mark Huber

This work prepares new probability bounds for sums of random, independent, Hermitian tensors. These probability bounds characterize large-deviation behavior of the extreme eigenvalue of the sums of random tensors. We extend Lapalace…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Shih Yu Chang

We propose a novel discrete method of constructing Gaussian Random Fields (GRF) based on a combination of modified spectral representations, Fourier and Blob. The method is intended for Direct Numerical Simulations of the V-Langevin…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 D. I. Palade , M. Vlad

We revisit effective scenarios for the origin of heavy tails in stationary velocity distributions. A first analysis combines localization with diffusive acceleration. That gets realized in space plasmas to find the so-called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Thibaut Demaerel , Wojciech De Roeck , Christian Maes

We propose a variational tail bound for norms of random vectors under moment assumptions on their one-dimensional marginals. A simplified version of the bound that parametrizes the ``aggregating distribution'' using a certain pushforward of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Sohail Bahmani

At high levels, the asymptotic distribution of a stationary, regularly varying Markov chain is conveniently given by its tail process. The latter takes the form of a geometric random walk, the increment distribution depending on the sign of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-11 Holger Drees , Johan Segers , Michał Warchoł

We survey recent results on some one- and two-dimensional patterns generated by random permutations of natural numbers. In the first part, we discuss properties of random walks, evolving on a one-dimensional regular lattice in discrete time…

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