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Motivated by a recent paper of Kevin Tanguy, in which the concept of second order influences on the discrete cube and Gauss space has been investigated in detail, the present note studies it in a more specific context of Boolean functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz

Most correlation inequalities for high-dimensional functions in the literature, such as the Fortuin-Kasteleyn-Ginibre (FKG) inequality and the celebrated Gaussian Correlation Inequality of Royen, are qualitative statements which establish…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Anindya De , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio

Primordial non-Gaussianity introduces a scale-dependent variation in the clustering of density peaks corresponding to rare objects. This variation, parametrized by the bias, is investigated on scales where a linear perturbation theory is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-22 Sirichai Chongchitnan , Joseph Silk

Non-conservative uncertainty bounds are essential for making reliable predictions about latent functions from noisy data, and thus, a key enabler for safe learning-based control. In this domain, kernel methods such as Gaussian process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Amon Lahr , Anna Scampicchio , Johannes Köhler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

The H\'ajek-Feldman dichotomy establishes that two Gaussian measures are either mutually absolutely continuous with respect to each other (and hence there is a Radon-Nikodym density for each measure with respect to the other one) or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-03 José R. Berrendero , Antonio Cuevas , José L. Torrecilla

In this letter, we consider two sets of observations defined as subspace signals embedded in noise and we wish to analyze the distance between these two subspaces. The latter entails evaluating the angles between the subspaces, an issue…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-17 Olivier Besson , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jean-Yves Tourneret

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating samples from unknown data distributions. Most popular stochastic differential equation-based diffusion models perturb the target distribution by adding Gaussian noise,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Wenpin Tang , Nizar Touzi , Zikun Zhang , Xun Yu Zhou

The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is frequently used in data science. For discrete distributions on large state spaces, approximations of probability vectors may result in a few small negative entries, rendering the KL divergence…

The study of noise sensitivity of Boolean functions was initiated in a seminal paper of Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm, published in 1999. While this study has revealed fascinating phenomena in the context of Bernoulli percolation, few…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Daniel Ahlberg , Malo Hillairet , Ekaterina Toropova

This paper establishes quantitative correlation inequalities between monotone events and structured threshold objects in both the discrete cube and Gaussian space. We prove that for any increasing balanced family, there exists a linear…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yiming Chen , Guozheng Dai

The Gaussian product inequality is an important conjecture concerning the moments of Gaussian random vectors. While all attempts to prove the Gaussian product inequality in full generality have been unsuccessful to date, numerous partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Dominic Edelmann , Donald Richards , Thomas Royen

This paper concerns the approximation of probability measures on $\mathbf{R}^d$ with respect to the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Given an admissible target measure, we show the existence of the best approximation, with respect to this…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Yulong Lu , Andrew M. Stuart , Hendrik Weber

An inner-product Hilbert space formulation is defined over a domain of all permutations with ties upon the extended real line. We demonstrate this work to resolve the common first and second order biases found in the pervasive Kendall and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-21 Landon Hurley

This paper considers the relationship between geometry, symmetry and fundamental interactions -- gravity and those mediated by gauge fields. We explore product spacetimes which a) have the necessary symmetries for gauge interactions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-17 Tom Lawrence

The influence theorem for product measures on the discrete space {0,1}^N may be extended to probability measures with the property of monotonicity (which is equivalent to `strong positive-association'). Corresponding results are valid for…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. T. Graham , G. R. Grimmett

Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is one of the most important divergence measures between probability distributions. In this paper, we prove several properties of KL divergence between multivariate Gaussian distributions. First, for any two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yufeng Zhang , Wanwei Liu , Zhenbang Chen , Ji Wang , Kenli Li

This short note is on a property of the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence which indicates that independent Gaussian distributions minimize the KL divergence from given independent Gaussian distributions. The primary purpose of this note is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

In this article we review recent generalisations of the central limit theorem for the sum of specially correlated (or q-independent) variables, focusing on q greater or equal than 1. Specifically, this kind of correlation turns the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-16 Silvio M. Duarte Queiros , Constantino Tsallis

We consider minimum variance estimation within the sparse linear Gaussian model (SLGM). A sparse vector is to be estimated from a linearly transformed version embedded in Gaussian noise. Our analysis is based on the theory of reproducing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Alexander Jung , Sebastian Schmutzhard , Franz Hlawatsch , Zvika Ben-Haim , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper we study algorithms to find a Gaussian approximation to a target measure defined on a Hilbert space of functions; the target measure itself is defined via its density with respect to a reference Gaussian measure. We employ the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Frank J. Pinski , Gideon Simpson , Andrew M. Stuart , Hendrik Weber