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We consider the problem of approximate sampling from the finite volume Gibbs measure with a general pair interaction. We exhibit a parallel dynamics (Probabilistic Cellular Automaton) which efficiently implements the sampling. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-30 Paolo Dai Pra , Benedetto Scoppola , Elisabetta Scoppola

Parallel algorithms for solving any image processing task is a highly demanded approach in the modern world. Cellular Automata (CA) are the most common and simple models of parallel computation. So, CA has been successfully used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Deepak Ranjan Nayak , Prashanta Kumar Patra , Amitav Mahapatra

A Cellular Automata (CA) is a computing model of complex System using simple rule. In CA the problem space into number of cell and each cell can be one or several final state. Cells are affected by neighbours' to the simple rule. Cellular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Debasis Das , Abhishek Ray

This paper concerns $\mu$-limit sets of cellular automata: sets of configurations made of words whose probability to appear does not vanish with time, starting from an initial $\mu$-random configuration. More precisely, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Laurent Boyer , Martin Delacourt , Victor Poupet , Mathieu Sablik , Guillaume Theyssier

This paper is devoted to probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) on $\mathbb{N}$, $\mathbb{Z}$ or $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, depending of two neighbors, with a general alphabet $E$ (finite or infinite, discrete or not). We study the following…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Jérôme Casse

To advance our understanding of Quantum Cellular Automata in problem solving through parallel and distributed computing, this research quantized the density classification problem and adopted the Quantum Particle Automata (QPA) to solve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Tina Yu , Radel Ben-Av

We investigate the conditions under which the mean-field formulation of a probabilistic, totalistic cellular automaton approximates the logistic equation. We show that this goal can be only fulfilled for an infinite-range neighborhood. We…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-03-06 Franco Bagnoli

Over an arbitrary commutative ring $R$, we develop a theory of quantum cellular automata. We then use algebraic K-theory to construct a space $\mathbf{Q}(X)$ of quantum cellular automata (QCA) on a given metric space $X$. In most cases of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Mattie Ji , Bowen Yang

In the field of Astrobiology, the precise location, prevalence and age of potential extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) have not been explicitly explored. Here, we address these inquiries using an empirical galactic simulation model to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-22 Xiang Cai , Jonathan H. Jiang , Kristen A. Fahy , Yuk L. Yung

This article introduces new tools to study self-organisation in a family of simple cellular automata which contain some particle-like objects with good collision properties (coalescence) in their time evolution. We draw an initial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Mathieu Sablik

Nowadays, in societies threatened by atomization, selfishness, short-term thinking, and alienation from political life, there is a renewed debate about classical questions concerning the quality of democratic decision-making. In this work a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. G. Alves , N. M. Oliveira Neto , M. L. Martins

We present a new theoretical population synthesis model (the Galaxy Model) to examine and deal with large amounts of data from surveys of the Milky Way and to decipher the present and past structure and history of our own Galaxy. We assume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 S. Pasetto , G. Natale , D. Kawata , C. Chiosi , J. A. S. Hunt , C. Brogliato

The paper proposes a simple formalism for dealing with deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic cellular automata in a unifying and composable manner. Armed with this formalism, we extend the notion of intrinsic simulation between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Pablo Arrighi , Nicolas Schabanel , Guillaume Theyssier

Stochastic processes govern the time evolution of a huge variety of realistic systems throughout the sciences. A minimal description of noisy many-particle systems within a Markovian picture and with a notion of spatial dimension is given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-25 Andrea Pizzi , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Johannes Knolle

We present a new framework to characterize the occurrence rates of planet candidates identified by Kepler based on hierarchical Bayesian modeling, Approximate Bayesian Computing (ABC), and sequential importance sampling. For this study we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Danley C. Hsu , Eric B. Ford , Darin Ragozzine , Robert C. Morehead

In clinical and biomedical research, multiple high-dimensional datasets are nowadays routinely collected from omics and imaging devices. Multivariate methods, such as Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), integrate two (or more) datasets to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-20 Nuria Senar , Mark van de Wiel , Aeilko Zwinderman , Michel Hof

Often the relation between the variables constituting a multivariate data space might be characterized by one or more of the terms: ``nonlinear'', ``branched'', ``disconnected'', ``bended'', ``curved'', ``heterogeneous'', or, more general,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 Jochen Einbeck , Ludger Evers , Coryn Bailer-Jones

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique wherein one seeks a low-rank representation of a data matrix with additional sparsity constraints on the obtained representation. We consider two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

The theory of cellular automata in operational probabilistic theories is developed. We start introducing the composition of infinitely many elementary systems, and then use this notion to define update rules for such infinite composite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Paolo Perinotti

A deterministic reformulation of quantum mechanics can bypass the usual philosophical interpretations of probability and stochasticity that are found in the literature. This can be obtained with the ontological formulation of quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Fabrizio Tamburini , Ignazio Licata