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Multiple-step lookahead policies have demonstrated high empirical competence in Reinforcement Learning, via the use of Monte Carlo Tree Search or Model Predictive Control. In a recent work \cite{efroni2018beyond}, multiple-step greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yonathan Efroni , Gal Dalal , Bruno Scherrer , Shie Mannor

We study the hunting process for a target, in which the hunter tracks the goal by smelling odors it emits. The odor intensity is supposed to decrease with the distance it diffuses. The Monte Carlo experiment is carried out on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shi-Jie Yang

A Bessel excursion is a Bessel process that begins at the origin and first returns there at some given time $T$. We study the distribution of the area under such an excursion, which recently found application in the context of laser…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 David A. Kessler , Shlomi Medalion , Eli Barkai

The approximation of a discrete probability distribution $\mathbf{t}$ by an $M$-type distribution $\mathbf{p}$ is considered. The approximation error is measured by the informational divergence $\mathbb{D}(\mathbf{t}\Vert\mathbf{p})$, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Bernhard C. Geiger , Georg Böcherer

We analyze greedy routing in a random graph G_n constructed on the vertex set V = {1, 2, ..., n} embedded in Z. Vertices are inserted according to a uniform random permutation pi, and each newly inserted vertex connects to its nearest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Alexander Ponomarenko

Given the proximity of many wireless users and their diversity in consuming local resources (e.g., data-plans, computation and even energy resources), device-to-device (D2D) resource sharing is a promising approach towards realizing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shuqin Gao , Costas Courcoubetis , Lingjie Duan

It is recognised now that a variety of real-life phenomena ranging from diffuson of cold atoms to motion of humans exhibit dispersal faster than normal diffusion. L\'evy walks is a model that excelled in describing such superdiffusive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-03 V. Zaburdaev , I. Fouxon , S. Denisov , E. Barkai

Probability distributions of human displacements has been fit with exponentially truncated L\'evy flights or fat tailed Pareto inverse power law probability distributions. Thus, people usually stay within a given location (for example, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-27 Nicola Scafetta

We study a symmetric random walk (RW) in one spatial dimension in environment, formed by several zones of finite width, where the probability of transition between two neighboring points and corresponding diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-03 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

As a strategy to complete games quickly, we investigate one-dimensional random walks where the step length increases deterministically upon each return to the origin. When the step length after the kth return equals k, the displacement of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Ben-Naim , S. Redner

In this article, we present a family of numerical approaches to solve high-dimensional linear non-symmetric problems. The principle of these methods is to approximate a function which depends on a large number of variates by a sum of tensor…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

This paper further defines the class of fragment constructive heuristics used to compute feasible solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem into arc-greedy and node-greedy subclasses. Since these subclasses of heuristics can create…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Petar D. Jackovich , Bruce A. Cox , Raymond R. Hill

This paper investigates L\'evy walks with random velocities, extending classical models beyond constant speed assumptions. We derive scaling limits, demonstrating that diffusion depends on interplay between heavy-tailed duration and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Hubert Woszczek , Marek A. Teuerle , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

Correlated random walks (CRW) have been used for a long time as a null model for animal's random search movement in two dimensions (2D). An increasing number of studies focus on animals' movement in three dimensions (3D), but the key…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-11 Simon Benhamou

Deep learning has shown significant potential in solving combinatorial optimization problems such as the Euclidean traveling salesman problem (TSP). However, most training and test instances for existing TSP algorithms are generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiayang Li , Shihua Zhang

The Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem with a Prespecified Order on the Clusters, a variant of the well-known traveling salesman problem is studied in literature. In this problem, delivery locations are divided into clusters with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Hoa Nguyen Phuong , Huyen Tran Ngoc Nhat , Minh Hoàng Hà , André Langevin , Martin Trépanier

Levy flights are random walks in which the probability distribution of the step sizes is fat-tailed. Levy spatial diffusion has been observed for a collection of ultra-cold Rb atoms and single Mg+ ions in an optical lattice. Using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-28 E. Barkai , E. Aghion , D. A. Kessler

Levy walks define a fundamental concept in random walk theory which allows one to model diffusive spreading that is faster than Brownian motion. They have many applications across different disciplines. However, so far the derivation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-08 J. P. Taylor-King , R. Klages , S. Fedotov , R. A. Van Gorder

We consider the time evolution of two-dimensional Levy flights in a finite area with periodic boundary conditions. From simulations we show that the fractal path dimension d_f and thus the degree of area coverage grows in time until it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mahsa Vahabi , Johannes H. P. Schulz , Babak Shokri , Ralf Metzler

L\'evy walks are random walk processes whose step-lengths follow a long-tailed power-law distribution. Due to their abundance as movement patterns of biological organisms, significant theoretical efforts have been devoted to identifying the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Brieuc Guinard , Amos Korman