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We present a perfect simulation algorithm for measures that are absolutely continuous with respect to some Poisson process and can be obtained as invariant measures of birth-and-death processes. Examples include area- and…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Roberto Fernandez , Pablo A. Ferrari , Nancy Garcia

The paper presents a novel learning-based sampling strategy that guarantees rejection-free sampling of the free space under both biased and approximately uniform conditions, leveraging multivariate kernel densities. Historical data from a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas T. Enevoldsen , Roberto Galeazzi

Stochastic processes defined on integer valued state spaces are popular within the physical and biological sciences. These models are necessary for capturing the dynamics of small systems where the individual nature of the populations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-15 Luke O'Loughlin , John Maclean , Andrew Black

Consider a randomized algorithm that draws samples exactly from a distribution using recursion. Such an algorithm is called a perfect simulation, and here a variety of methods for building this type of algorithm are shown to derive from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Mark Huber

Classical machine learning has succeeded in the prediction of both classical and quantum phases of matter. Notably, kernel methods stand out for their ability to provide interpretable results, relating the learning process with the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Teresa Sancho-Lorente , Juan Román-Roche , David Zueco

The most efficient way to calculate strong bisimilarity is by calculation the relational coarsest partition on a transition system. We provide the first linear time algorithm to calculate strong bisimulation using parallel random access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Jan Martens , Jan Friso Groote , Lars van den Haak , Pieter Hijma , Anton Wijs

In many learning tasks, certain requirements on the processing of individual data samples should arguably be formalized as strict constraints in the underlying optimization problem, rather than by means of arbitrary penalties. We show that,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Francesca Lanzillotta , Chiara Albisani , Davide Pucci , Daniele Baracchi , Alessandro Piva , Matteo Lapucci

Stochastic processes are as ubiquitous throughout the quantitative sciences as they are notorious for being difficult to simulate and predict. In this letter we propose a unitary quantum simulator for discrete-time stochastic processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 Felix C. Binder , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu

Computing smoothing distributions, the distributions of one or more states conditional on past, present, and future observations is a recurring problem when operating on general hidden Markov models. The aim of this paper is to provide a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Randal Douc , Aurélien Garivier , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

Reduced modeling in high-dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces offers the opportunity to approximate efficiently non-linear dynamics. In this work, we devise an algorithm based on low rank constraint optimization and kernel-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-23 Patrick Heas , Cedric Herzet , Benoit Combes

We consider perfect simulation algorithms for locally stable point processes based on dominated coupling from the past. A version of the algorithm is developed which is feasible for processes which are neither purely attractive nor purely…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-03-17 Graeme K. Ambler , Bernard W. Silverman

A quantum memory is a system that enables transfer, storage, and retrieval of optical quantum states by ON/OFF switching of the control signal in each stages of the memory. In particular, it is known that, for perfect transfer of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Hideaki Nakao , Naoki Yamamoto

This is a method for discrete event simulation specified by survival analysis. It presents a sequence of steps. First, hazard rates from survival analysis specify the rates of a set of counting processes. Second, those counting processes…

Computation · Statistics 2016-10-14 Andrew J. Dolgert

While quantum computers are capable of simulating many quantum systems efficiently, the simulation algorithms must begin with the preparation of an appropriate initial state. We present a method for generating physically relevant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Nicholas J. Ward , Ivan Kassal , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Continuous-time state-space models (SSMs) are flexible tools for analysing irregularly sampled sequential observations that are driven by an underlying state process. Corresponding applications typically involve restrictive assumptions…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-29 Sina Mews , Roland Langrock , Marius Ötting , Houda Yaqine , Jost Reinecke

Massively parallel desktop computing capabilities now well within the reach of individual academics modify the environment for posterior simulation in fundamental and potentially quite advantageous ways. But to fully exploit these benefits…

Computation · Statistics 2013-04-17 Garland Durham , John Geweke

A candidate application for quantum computers is to simulate the low-temperature properties of quantum systems. For this task, there is a well-studied quantum algorithm that performs quantum phase estimation on an initial trial state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Joel A. Tropp

State space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for long sequence processing, outperforming traditional methods on diverse benchmarks. Fundamentally, SSMs can generalize both recurrent and convolutional networks and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Xiaoyu Zhang , Mingtao Hu , Sen Lu , Soohyeon Kim , Eric Yeu-Jer Lee , Yuyang Liu , Wei D. Lu

A programmable quantum processor is a fundamental model of quantum computation. In this model, any quantum channel can be approximated by applying a fixed universal quantum operation onto an input state and a quantum `program' state, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Leonardo Banchi , Jason Pereira , Seth Lloyd , Stefano Pirandola

We consider a parallel computational model that consists of $P$ processors, each with a fast local ephemeral memory of limited size, and sharing a large persistent memory. The model allows for each processor to fault with bounded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Guy E. Blelloch , Phillip B. Gibbons , Yan Gu , Charles McGuffey , Julian Shun