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Neural posterior estimation (NPE), a simulation-based computational approach for Bayesian inference, has shown great success in approximating complex posterior distributions. Existing NPE methods typically rely on normalizing flows, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Tianyu Chen , Vansh Bansal , James G. Scott

We consider an ideal experiment in which unlimited nonprojective quantum measurements are sequentially performed on a system that is initially entangled with a distant one. At each step of the sequence, the measurements are randomly chosen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Armin Tavakoli , Adán Cabello

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

Verification of PCTL properties of MDPs with convex uncertainties has been investigated recently by Puggelli et al. However, model checking algorithms typically suffer from state space explosion. In this paper, we address probabilistic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Vahid Hashemi , Hassan Hatefi , Jan Krčál

We consider the probabilistic applicative bisimilarity (PAB), a coinductive relation comparing the applicative behaviour of probabilistic untyped lambda terms according to a specific operational semantics. This notion has been studied with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Gianluca Curzi , Michele Pagani

In recent years, researchers in decision analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) have used Bayesian belief networks to build models of expert opinion. Using standard methods drawn from the theory of computational complexity, workers in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-05 R. Martin Chavez , Gregory F. Cooper

Bayesian predictive probabilities are commonly used for interim monitoring of clinical trials through efficacy and futility stopping rules. Despite their usefulness, calculation of predictive probabilities, particularly in pre-experiment…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-18 Joe Marion , Liz Lorenzi , Cora Allen-Savietta , Scott Berry , Kert Viele

In this Letter we propose a new method to infer the topology of the interaction network in pairwise models with Ising variables. By using the pseudolikelihood method (PLM) at high temperature, it is generally possible to distinguish between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-25 Aurélien Decelle , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

The method of stable random projections is a tool for efficiently computing the $l_\alpha$ distances using low memory, where $0<\alpha \leq 2$ is a tuning parameter. The method boils down to a statistical estimation task and various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Ping Li

The traditional approach to fault tolerant computing involves replicating computation units and applying a majority vote operation on individual result bits. This approach, however, has several limitations; the most severe is the resource…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Shlomi Dolev , Sergey Frenkel , Dan Tamir

Bisimulation relation has been successfully applied to computer science and control theory. In our previous work, simulation-based controllability and simulation-based observability are proposed, under which the existence of bisimilarity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Yajuan Sun , Hai Lin , Fuchun Liu

Original paper: We revisit the probability that any two consecutive events in a Poisson process N on [0,t] are separated by a time interval which is greater than s(<t) (a particular scan statistic probability), and the closely related…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-05 Shai Covo

We present algorithms (a) for nested neural likelihood-to-evidence ratio estimation, and (b) for simulation reuse via an inhomogeneous Poisson point process cache of parameters and corresponding simulations. Together, these algorithms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Benjamin Kurt Miller , Alex Cole , Gilles Louppe , Christoph Weniger

We present Causal Posterior Estimation (CPE), a novel method for Bayesian inference in simulator models, i.e., models where the evaluation of the likelihood function is intractable or too computationally expensive, but where one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Simon Dirmeier , Antonietta Mira

This paper concerns branching simulation for weighted Kripke structures with parametric weights. Concretely, we consider a weighted extension of branching simulation where a single transitions can be matched by a sequence of transitions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Louise Foshammer , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Anders Mariegaard

Many real world domains require the representation of a measure of uncertainty. The most common such representation is probability, and the combination of probability with logic programs has given rise to the field of Probabilistic Logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Fabrizio Riguzzi , Terrance Swift

This short note aims at proving that the isolation problem is undecidable for probabilistic automata with only one probabilistic transition. This problem is known to be undecidable for general probabilistic automata, without restriction on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Hugo Gimbert , Youssouf Oualhadj

We consider probabilistic automata on a general state space and study their computational power. The model is based on the concept of language recognition by probabilistic automata due to Rabin and models of analog computation in a noisy…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Ben-Hur , A. Roitershtein , H. Siegelmann

We study the problem of computing the reachable principals of simulation preorder and the reachable blocks of simulation equivalence. Following a theoretical investigation of the decidability and complexity aspects of this problem, which in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Pierre Ganty , Nicolas Manini , Francesco Ranzato

A common technique to verify complex logic specifications for dynamical systems is the construction of symbolic abstractions: simpler, finite-state models whose behaviour mimics the one of the systems of interest. Typically, abstractions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Rudi Coppola , Andrea Peruffo , Manuel Mazo