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In recent years dynamical systems (of deterministic and stochastic nature), describing many models in mathematics, physics, engineering and finances, become more and more complex. Numerical analysis narrowed only to deterministic algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Paweł Przybyłowicz

We overview some recent results in the field of uncertainty quantification for kinetic equations and related problems with random inputs. Uncertainties may be due to various reasons, such as lack of knowledge on the microscopic interaction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Lorenzo Pareschi

We propose a new method based on machine learning to \emph{play the devil's advocate} and investigate the impact of unknown systematic effects in a quantitative way. This method proceeds by reversing the measurement process and using the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-11 Andrei Golutvin , Aleksandr Iniukhin , Andrea Mauri , Patrick Owen , Nicola Serra , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

Reliability analysis is a sub-field of uncertainty quantification that assesses the probability of a system performing as intended under various uncertainties. Traditionally, this analysis relies on deterministic models, where experiments…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-19 Anderson V. Pires , Maliki Moustapha , Stefano Marelli , Bruno Sudret

This paper examines the use of Monte Carlo simulations to understand statistical concepts in A/B testing and Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). We discuss the applicability of simulations in understanding false positive rates and estimate…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-12 Márton Trencséni

This paper deals with nonlinear mechanics of an elevator brake system subjected to uncertainties. A deterministic model that relates the braking force with uncertain parameters is deduced from mechanical equilibrium conditions. In order to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Piotr Wolszczak , Pawel Lonkwic , Americo Cunha , Grzegorz Litak , Szymon Molski

With the growing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for open-ended tasks, accurately assessing epistemic uncertainty, which reflects a model's lack of knowledge, has become crucial to ensuring reliable outcomes. However, quantifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xinyi Liu , Weiguang Wang , Hangfeng He

This paper addresses a significant gap in explainable AI: the necessity of interpreting epistemic uncertainty in model explanations. Although current methods mainly focus on explaining predictions, with some including uncertainty, they fail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Helena Löfström , Tuwe Löfström , Johan Hallberg Szabadvary

Uncertainty quantification plays an important role in biomedical engineering as measurement data is often unavailable and literature data shows a wide variability. Using state-of-the-art methods one encounters difficulties when the number…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Ulrich Römer , Christian Schmidt , Ursula van Rienen , Sebastian Schöps

Computational models in chemistry rely on a number of approximations. The effect of such approximations on observables derived from them is often unpredictable. Therefore, it is challenging to quantify the uncertainty of a computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Gregor N. Simm , Jonny Proppe , Markus Reiher

Uncertainty relations provide constraints on how well the outcomes of incompatible measurements can be predicted, and, as well as being fundamental to our understanding of quantum theory, they have practical applications such as for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick J. Coles , Roger Colbeck , Li Yu , Michael Zwolak

We consider polarized neutron matter at low densities. We have performed Diffusion Monte Carlo simulations for normal neutron matter with different population numbers for each species. We analyze the competition between different phases in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-12 Alexandros Gezerlis , Rishi Sharma

Two of the most intriguing features of quantum physics are the uncertainty principle and the occurrence of nonlocal correlations. The uncertainty principle states that there exist pairs of incompatible measurements on quantum systems such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Marco Tomamichel , Esther Hänggi

To analyze the uncertain data frequently encountered in practice, this paper proposes novel fixed-effects models that incorporate an uncertain measure to investigate variables of interest and nuisance variables in factor designs. First, an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-18 Fan Zhang , Zhiming Li

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle implies fundamental constraints on what properties of a quantum system can we simultaneously learn. However, it typically assumes that we probe these properties via measurements at a single point in time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yunlong Xiao , Yuxiang Yang , Ximing Wang , Qing Liu , Mile Gu

Due to time and financial restrictions in an educational laboratory, we are making compromises, using experimental setups in which limitations and uncertainties are important. In these cases we should pay particular attention to the role of…

Physics Education · Physics 2011-11-18 Mirofora Pilakouta

There are two reasons why uncertainty may not be adequately described by Probability Theory. The first one is due to unique or nearly-unique events, that either never realized or occurred too seldom for frequencies to be reliably measured.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Florian Ellsaesser , Guido Fioretti , Gail E. James

Uncertainty estimation has been extensively studied in recent literature, which can usually be classified as aleatoric uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty. In current aleatoric uncertainty estimation frameworks, it is often neglected that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Mehrtash Harandi , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes , Richard Hartley

A numerical technique is introduced that reduces exponentially the time required for Monte Carlo simulations of non-equilibrium systems. Results for the quasi-stationary probability distribution in two model systems are compared with the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bandrivskyy , S. Beri , D. G. Luchinsky , R. Mannella , P. V. E. McClintock

The assisted Schwinger effect, which is predicted to display non-perturbative quantum tunnelling, is expected to be produced in precision lab experiments with electron beams and intense lasers. Indeed, many novel effects predicted by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 Anthony Hartin