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In line with Pomeau's conjecture about the relevance of directed percolation (DP) to turbulence onset/decay in wall-bounded flows, we propose a minimal stochastic model dedicated to the interpretation of the spatially intermittent regimes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-18 Paul Manneville , Masaki Shimizu

Many recent generative models make use of neural networks to transform the probability distribution of a simple low-dimensional noise process into the complex distribution of the data. This raises the question of whether biological networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Hesham Mostafa , Gert Cauwenberghs

Stochastic HYPE is a novel process algebra that models stochastic, instantaneous and continuous behaviour. It develops the flow-based approach of the hybrid process algebra HYPE by replacing non-urgent events with events with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Luca Bortolussi , Vashti Galpin , Jane Hillston

The seemingly stochastic transient dynamics of neocortical circuits observed in vivo have been hypothesized to represent a signature of ongoing stochastic inference. In vitro neurons, on the other hand, exhibit a highly deterministic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-14 Mihai A. Petrovici , Johannes Bill , Ilja Bytschok , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

This paper is a short summary of the main results in the thesis [1]. Based on the P2P paradigm we construct a stochastic model for a live media streaming content delivery network. Starting from the behavior of the out degree process of each…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Andrea Monsellato

A class of generative models that unifies flow-based and diffusion-based methods is introduced. These models extend the framework proposed in Albergo and Vanden-Eijnden (2023), enabling the use of a broad class of continuous-time stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Michael S. Albergo , Nicholas M. Boffi , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Generating random bits from a source of biased coins (the biased is unknown) is a classical question that was originally studied by von Neumann. There are a number of known algorithms that have asymptotically optimal information efficiency,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Hongchao Zhou , Jehoshua Bruck

This paper describes and discusses Bayesian Neural Network (BNN). The paper showcases a few different applications of them for classification and regression problems. BNNs are comprised of a Probabilistic Model and a Neural Network. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Vikram Mullachery , Aniruddh Khera , Amir Husain

We obtain a simple direct derivation of the differential equation governing the entropy flow probability distribution function of a stochastic system first obtained by Lebowitz and Spohn. Its solution agrees well with the experimental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Imparato , L. Peliti

The methodology based on the random walk processes is adapted and applied to a comprehensive analysis of the statistical properties of the probability fluxes. To this aim we define a simple model of the Markovian stochastic dynamics on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Przemyslaw Chelminiak , Michal Kurzynski

Many networks used in machine learning and as models of biological neural networks make use of stochastic neurons or neuron-like units. We show that stochastic artificial neurons can be realized on silicon chips by exploiting the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Hesham Mostafa , Giacomo Indiveri

Stochastic normalizing flows are a class of deep generative models that combine normalizing flows with Monte Carlo updates and can be used in lattice field theory to sample from Boltzmann distributions. In this proceeding, we outline the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-10 Michele Caselle , Elia Cellini , Alessandro Nada , Marco Panero

Synthetic biology is a growing interdisciplinary field, with far-reaching applications, which aims to design biochemical systems that behave in a desired manner. With the advancement of strand-displacement DNA computing, a large class of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-21 Tomislav Plesa , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis , David F. Anderson , Radek Erban

Stochastic reaction network models arise in intracellular chemical reactions, epidemiological models and other population process models, and are a class of continuous time Markov chains which have the nonnegative integer lattice as state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Muruhan Rathinam , Mingkai Yu

In this paper we consider the Stochastic Matching problem, which is motivated by applications in kidney exchange and online dating. We are given an undirected graph in which every edge is assigned a probability of existence and a positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Marek Adamczyk , Fabrizio Grandoni , Joydeep Mukherjee

The highly variable dynamics of neocortical circuits observed in vivo have been hypothesized to represent a signature of ongoing stochastic inference but stand in apparent contrast to the deterministic response of neurons measured in vitro.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-14 Mihai A. Petrovici , Johannes Bill , Ilja Bytschok , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

The latent stochastic block model is a flexible and widely used statistical model for the analysis of network data. Extensions of this model to a dynamic context often fail to capture the persistence of edges in contiguous network…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-16 Riccardo Rastelli

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

We propose to learn the time-varying stochastic computational resource usage of software as a graph structured Schr\"odinger bridge problem. In general, learning the computational resource usage from data is challenging because resources…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Georgiy A. Bondar , Robert Gifford , Linh Thi Xuan Phan , Abhishek Halder

We study stochastic graph optimization problems in a novel distributed setting. As in the standard centralized setting, a random subgraph $G^*$ of a known base graph $G$ is realized by including each edge $e$ independently with a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Aditi Dudeja , George Giakkoupis