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Zipf's law is a fundamental paradigm in the statistics of written and spoken natural language as well as in other communication systems. We raise the question of the elementary units for which Zipf's law should hold in the most natural way,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-14 Alvaro Corral , Gemma Boleda , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

In this paper we derive a Large Deviation Principle (LDP) for inhomogeneous U/V-statistics of a general order. Using this, we derive a LDP for two types of statistics: random multilinear forms, and number of monochromatic copies of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sohom Bhattacharya , Nabarun Deb , Sumit Mukherjee

One says that the local large deviation principle (LLDP) is satisfied for a family of random vectors $\{\zeta_T\}_{T\ge 0}$ in $\mathbb R^d,$ $d\ge 1,$ if there exists a function $D:\mathbb R^d\to [0,\infty],$ $D\not \equiv \infty,$ such…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Konstantin Borovkov

Let $M_{l,n}$ be the number of blocks with frequency $l$ in the exchangeable random partition induced by a sample of size $n$ from the Ewens-Pitman sampling model. We show that, as $n$ tends to infinity, $n^{-1}M_{l,n}$ satisfies a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Stefano Favaro , Shui Feng

We prove that the quantum relative entropy is a rate function in large deviation principle. Next, we define information criteria for quantum states and estimate the accuracy of the use of them. Most of the results in this paper are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 Kazuya Okamura

We consider a system of stochastic interacting particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and we describe large deviations asymptotics in a joint mean-field and small-noise limit. Precisely, a large deviations principle (LDP) is established for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Carlo Orrieri

Probability estimation is an elementary building block of every statistical data compression algorithm. In practice probability estimation is often based on relative letter frequencies which get scaled down, when their sum is too large.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Christopher Mattern

A task is randomly drawn from a finite set of tasks and is described using a fixed number of bits. All the tasks that share its description must be performed. Upper and lower bounds on the minimum $\rho$-th moment of the number of performed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Christoph Bunte , Amos Lapidoth

Particle approximations for certain nonlinear and nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations are studied using a system of Brownian motions with killing. The system is described by a collection of i.i.d. Brownian particles where each particle is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Amarjit Budhiraja , Wai-Tong Louis Fan , Ruoyu Wu

We prove a sample path large deviation principle (LDP) with sub-linear speed for unbounded functionals of certain Markov chains induced by the Lindley recursion. The LDP holds in the Skorokhod space $\mathbb{D}[0,T]$ equipped with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Mihail Bazhba , Jose Blanchet , Chang-Han Rhee , Bert Zwart

The inverse relationship between the length of a word and the frequency of its use, first identified by G.K. Zipf in 1935, is a classic empirical law that holds across a wide range of human languages. We demonstrate that length is one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Stephan C. Meylan , Thomas L. Griffiths

The article introduces corrections to Zipf's and Heaps' laws based on systematic models of the proportion of hapaxes, i.e., words that occur once. The derivation rests on two assumptions: The first one is the standard urn model which…

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In this paper, we obtain almost sure invariance principles with rate of order $n^{1/p}\log^\beta n$, $2< p\le 4$, for sums associated to a sequence of reverse martingale differences. Then, we apply those results to obtain similar…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-18 Christophe Cuny , Florence Merlevede

In this paper we study the Large Deviation Principle (LDP in abbreviation) for a class of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs) in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$, with arbitrary dimension $d\geq 1$, under random influence which…

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A measure of similarity between text embeddings can be considered adequate only if it adheres to the human perception of similarity between texts. In this paper, we introduce the distance-to-distance ratio (DDR), a novel measure of…

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Evaluating whether large language models (LLMs) capture the structure of natural language beyond local fluency remains an open challenge. Existing evaluation methods, largely based on task performance or short-context behavior, provide…

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We give a Large Deviation Principle (LDP) with explicit rate function for the distribution of vertex degrees in plane trees, a combinatorial model of RNA secondary structures. We calculate the typical degree distributions based on nearest…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-03-28 Yuri Bakhtin , Christine E. Heitsch

We investigate possible large deviation principles (LDPs) for the $n$-vertex sampling from a given graphon with various speeds $s(n)$ and resolve all the cases except when the speed $s(n)$ is of order $n^2$. For quadratic speed…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Jan Grebík , Oleg Pikhurko

We study large deviations of a ratio observable in discrete-time reset processes. The ratio takes the form of a current divided by the number of reset steps and as such it is not extensive in time. A large deviation rate function can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-21 Francesco Coghi , Rosemary J. Harris