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Exploration is essential for solving complex Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. Maximum State-Visitation Entropy (MSVE) formulates the exploration problem as a well-defined policy optimization problem whose solution aims at visiting all…

The Nystr\"{o}m method is routinely used for out-of-sample extension of kernel matrices. We describe how this method can be applied to find the singular value decomposition (SVD) of general matrices and the eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Arik Nemtsov , Amir Averbuch , Alon Schclar

Radio polarisation images of the jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can provide a deep insight into the launching and collimation mechanisms of relativistic jets. However, even at VLBI scales, resolution is often a limiting factor in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Colm P. Coughlan , Denise C. Gabuzda

The Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) for the deconvolution of radio interferometry images is mathematically well based and presents a number of advantages over the usual CLEAN deconvolution, such as appreciably higher resolution. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Colm Coughlan , Denise Gabuzda

Mapping the relativistic jets emanating from AGN requires the use of a deconvolution algorithm to account for the effects of missing baseline spacings. The CLEAN algorithm is the most commonly used algorithm in VLBI imaging today and is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Colm P. Coughlan , Denise C. Gabuzda

Expectation maximisation (EM) is an unsupervised learning method for estimating the parameters of a finite mixture distribution. It works by introducing "hidden" or "latent" variables via Baum's auxiliary function $Q$ that allow the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Graham W. Pulford

For over five decades the procedure termed maximum-entropy (M-E) has been used to sharpen structure in spectra, optical and otherwise. However, this is a contradiction: by modifying data, this approach violates the fundamental M-E…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Long V. Le , Tae J. Kim , Young D. Kim , D. E. Aspnes

This paper introduces a novel eXtended virtual element method, an extension of the conforming virtual element method. The XVEM is formulated by incorporating appropriate enrichment functions in the local spaces. The method is designed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Jerome Droniou , Gianmarco Manzini , Liam Yemm

Bayesian optimization is a widely used technique for optimizing black-box functions, with Expected Improvement (EI) being the most commonly utilized acquisition function in this domain. While EI is often viewed as distinct from other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Nuojin Cheng , Stephen Becker

We consider a differential method of maximum entropy that is based on the linearity of Fourier transform and involves reconstruction of images from the differences of the visibility function. The efficiency of the method is demonstrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Anisa T. Bajkova

The generalized maximum entropy method (GMEM) is a special modification of the standard maximum entropy method (MEM) which seeks solutions in the space of complex functions. In this work a reduced version of the GMEM intended for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Anisa T. Bajkova

The maximum entropy method (MEM) is a well known deconvolution technique in radio-interferometry. This method solves a non-linear optimization problem with an entropy regularization term. Other heuristics such as CLEAN are faster but highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 M. Cárcamo , P. Román , S. Casassus , V. Moral , F. R. Rannou

This paper studies a classic maximum entropy sampling problem (MESP), which aims to select the most informative principal submatrix of a prespecified size from a covariance matrix. MESP has been widely applied to many areas, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-02 Yongchun Li , Weijun Xie

Modern deep neural networks achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation tasks. However, it has recently been observed that they tend to produce overconfident estimates, even in situations of high uncertainty, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Agostina Larrazabal , Cesar Martinez , Jose Dolz , Enzo Ferrante

We present a novel approach to the inference of spectral functions from Euclidean time correlator data that makes close contact with modern Bayesian concepts. Our method differs significantly from the maximum entropy method (MEM). A new set…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-13 Yannis Burnier , Alexander Rothkopf

The Singularity Expansion Method Parameter Optimizer -- SEMPO -- is a toolbox to extract the complex poles, zeros and residues of an arbitrary response function acquired along the real frequency axis. SEMPO allows to determine this full set…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-02 I. Ben Soltane , M. Roy , R. Andre , N. Bonod

We propose a modified maximum-entropy (MENT) algorithm for six-dimensional phase space tomography. The algorithm uses particle sampling and low-dimensional density estimation to approximate large sets of high-dimensional integrals in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Austin Hoover

The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is one of the most prominent methods to investigate and model complex systems. Despite its popularity, the standard form of the MEP can only generate Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, which are ill-suited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 Pablo A. Morales , Fernando E. Rosas

The Matrix Element Method (MEM) is a powerful method to extract information from measured events at collider experiments. Compared to multivariate techniques built on large sets of experimental data, the MEM does not rely on an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-07 Florian Bury , Christophe Delaere

We develop the method of Maximum Entropy (ME) as a technique to generate approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist in (a) justifying the use of relative entropy as the uniquely natural criterion to select a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-24 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha