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Motivated by applications arising in networked systems, this work examines controlled regime-switching systems that stem from a mean-variance formulation. A main point is that the switching process is a hidden Markov chain. An additional…

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We investigate a stationary process's crypticity---a measure of the difference between its hidden state information and its observed information---using the causal states of computational mechanics. Here, we motivate crypticity and cryptic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-30 John R. Mahoney , Christopher J. Ellison , Ryan G. James , James P. Crutchfield

We investigate the presence of memory in the sequential measurement statistics of an open quantum system, as witnessed by the departure from the quantum regression theorem (QRT), that is, the possibility to predict multitime probabilities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Paolo Luppi , Claudia Benedetti , Andrea Smirne

Critical properties of quantum spin chains with varying degrees of disorder are studied at zero temperature by analytical and extensive density matrix renormalization methods. Generally the phase diagram is found to contain three phases.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico Carlon , Péter Lajko , Ferenc Iglói

The problem of detecting a single anomalous process among multiple independent processes is considered. Under a constraint on the number of processes that can be probed simultaneously, the decision maker should decide which processes to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Fengfan Qin , Da Chen , Hui Feng , Qing Zhao , Tao Yang , Bo Hu

In this paper we consider a scenario where there are several algorithms for solving a given problem. Each algorithm is associated with a probability of success and a cost, and there is also a penalty for failing to solve the problem. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shlomo Moran , Irad Yavneh

The paper studies the time-homogeneous two-state Markov chains; the states are assumed to be binary symbols 0 and 1. The higher-order absolute differences taken from progressive states of a given chain are considered. A discrete capacity of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-06 A. Yu. Shahverdian

The random disorder can drastically change the melting scenario of two-dimensional systems and has to be taken into account in the interpretation of the experimental results. We present the results of the molecular dynamics simulations of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-19 E. N. Tsiok , Yu. D. Fomin , V. N. Ryzhov

The hypothesis of randomness is fundamental in statistical machine learning and in many areas of nonparametric statistics; it says that the observations are assumed to be independent and coming from the same unknown probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Vladimir Vovk

The work relates to a new way for analysis of one-dimensional stochastic systems, based on consideration of its higher order difference structure. From this point of view, the deterministic and random processes are analyzed. A new numerical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 A. Yu. Shahverdian , A. V. Apkarian

We propose an analytical technique to study large fluctuations and switching from internal noise in complex networks. Using order-disorder kinetics as a generic example, we construct and analyze the most probable, or optimal path of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-07 Jason Hindes , Ira B. Schwartz

Modern reasoning language models generate dense, sequential chain-of-thought traces implicitly assuming that every token contributes and that steps must be consumed in order. We challenge both assumptions through a systematic intervention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yi-Chang Chen , Feng-Ting Liao , Da-shan Shiu , Hung-yi Lee

We highlight a striking difference in behavior between two widely used variants of coordinate ascent variational inference: the sequential and parallel algorithms. While such differences were known in the numerical analysis literature in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Debdeep Pati

In this paper, we introduce two algorithms that solve the mutual exclusion problem for concurrent processes that communicate through shared variables, [2]. Our algorithms guarantee that any process trying to enter the critical section,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Jordi Bataller Mascarell

The belief network is a well-known graphical structure for representing independences in a joint probability distribution. The methods, which perform probabilistic inference in belief networks, often treat the conditional probabilities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Richard E. Neapolitan , James Kenevan

It is well known that particles can get trapped by randomly placed obstacles when they are pushed too much. We present a model where the current in a disordered medium dies at a large external field, but is reborn when the activity is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-04 T. Demaerel , C. Maes

In many cases of attacks or failures, memory effects play a significant role. Therefore, we present a model that not only considers the dependencies between nodes but also incorporates the memory effects of attacks. Our research…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-21 Yanpeng Zhu , Lei Chen , Fanyuan Meng , Chun-Xiao Jia , Run-Ran Liu

We prove an invariance principle for non-stationary random processes and establish a rate of convergence under a new type of mixing condition. The dependence is exponentially decaying in the gap between the past and the future and is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Ion Grama , Émile Le Page , Marc Peigné

In many cases, tainted information in a computer network can spread in a way similar to an epidemics in the human world. On the other had, information processing paths are often redundant, so a single infection occurrence can be easily…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-07 Franco Bagnoli , Emanuele Bellini , Emanuele Massaro

Several methods exist to infer causal networks from massive volumes of observational data. However, almost all existing methods require a considerable length of time series data to capture cause and effect relationships. In contrast,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Abbas Shojaee , Isuru Ranasinghe , Alireza Ani