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Since its origin in the thermodynamics of the 19th century, the concept of entropy has also permeated other fields of physics and mathematics, such as Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Information Theory, Probability Theory,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Salomé A. Sepúveda Fontaine , José M. Amigó

For some time the discrete strategy improvement algorithm due to Jurdzinski and Voge had been considered as a candidate for solving parity games in polynomial time. However, it has recently been proved by Oliver Friedmann that the strategy…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Felix Canavoi , Erich Grädel , Roman Rabinovich

This paper studies the Shannon regime for the random displacement of stationary point processes. Let each point of some initial stationary point process in $\R^n$ give rise to one daughter point, the location of which is obtained by adding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Venkat Anantharam , Francois Baccelli

In this paper, we study the problem of learning the skill distribution of a population of agents from observations of pairwise games in a tournament. These games are played among randomly drawn agents from the population. The agents in our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-16 Ali Jadbabaie , Anuran Makur , Devavrat Shah

The Distributional Alignment Game framework provides a powerful variational perspective on Answer-Level Fine-Tuning (ALFT). However, standard algorithms for these games rely on estimating logarithmic rewards from small batches, introducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mehryar Mohri , Jon Schneider , Yutao Zhong

Systems with a long-term stationary state that possess as a spatio-temporally fluctuation quantity $\beta$ can be described by a superposition of several statistics, a "super statistics". We consider first, the Gamma, log-normal and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Obregón , A. Gil-Villegas

In this paper we consider extended stationary mean field games, that is mean-field games which depend on the velocity field of the players. We prove various a-priori estimates which generalize the results for quasi-variational mean field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Diogo A. Gomes , Stefania Patrizi , Vardan Voskanyan

Stochastic epidemic models provide an interpretable probabilistic description of the spread of a disease through a population. Yet, fitting these models to partially observed data is a notoriously difficult task due to intractability of the…

Computation · Statistics 2022-10-21 Raphael Morsomme , Jason Xu

We develop a classical well-posedness and regularity theory on a finite connected weighted graph for an extended mean field game system, its associated master equation, and a Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman equation on the probability simplex, all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Wilfrid Gangbo , Sebastian Munoz , Jeremy Wu , Zhaoyu Zhang

In this paper, a novel approach for the optimal combination of binary classifiers is proposed. The classifier combination problem is approached from a Game Theory perspective. The proposed framework of adapted weighted majority rules (WMR)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Harris V. Georgiou , Michael E. Mavroforakis

The use of algorithmic predictions in decision-making leads to a feedback loop where the models we deploy actively influence the data distributions we see, and later use to retrain on. This dynamic was formalized by Perdomo et al. 2020 in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Gabriele Farina , Juan Carlos Perdomo

A ray-tracing method inspired by ergodic billiards is used to estimate the theoretically best decision rule for a set of linear separable examples. While the Bayes-optimum requires a majority decision over all Perceptrons separating the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Pal Rujan

Eagleson's Theorem asserts that, given a probability-preserving map, ifrenormalized Birkhoff sums of a function converge in distribution, thenthey also converge with respect to any probability measure which isabsolutely continuous with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Sébastien Gouëzel

Competitive on-line prediction (also known as universal prediction of individual sequences) is a strand of learning theory avoiding making any stochastic assumptions about the way the observations are generated. The predictor's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vladimir Vovk

We consider a class of Nash games, termed as aggregative games, being played over a networked system. In an aggregative game, a player's objective is a function of the aggregate of all the players' decisions. Every player maintains an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Jayash Koshal , Angelia Nedić , Uday V. Shanbhag

In this paper, we present a theoretical discussion on AI deep learning neural network uncertainty investigation based on the classical Rademacher complexity and Shannon entropy. First it is shown that the classical Rademacher complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Mingyong Zhou

Entropy estimation, due in part to its connection with mutual information, has seen considerable use in the study of time series data including causality detection and information flow. In many cases, the entropy is estimated using…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Alexander L Young , David B Dunson

Many learning algorithms can be represented as Markov processes, and understanding their generalization error is a central topic in learning theory. For specific continuous-time noisy algorithms, a prominent analysis technique relies on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Benjamin Dupuis , Maxime Haddouche , George Deligiannidis , Umut Simsekli

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic stability of finite-dimensional stochastic integrable Hamiltonian systems via information entropy. Specifically, we establish the asymptotic vanishing of Shannon entropy difference (with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Chen Wang , Yong Li

We design and analyze reinforcement learning algorithms for Graphon Mean-Field Games (GMFGs). In contrast to previous works that require the precise values of the graphons, we aim to learn the Nash Equilibrium (NE) of the regularized GMFGs…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Fengzhuo Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang