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We introduce a novel family of adaptive filtering algorithms based on a relative logarithmic cost. The new family intrinsically combines the higher and lower order measures of the error into a single continuous update based on the error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Muhammed O. Sayin , N. Denizcan Vanli , Suleyman S. Kozat

In this paper we propose the creation of generic LSH families for the angular distance based on Johnson-Lindenstrauss projections. We show that feature hashing is a valid J-L projection and propose two new LSH families based on feature…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Luis Argerich , Natalia Golmar

The log-density method is a powerful algorithmic framework which in recent years has given rise to the best-known approximations for a variety of problems, including Densest-$k$-Subgraph and Bipartite Small Set Vertex Expansion. These…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Eden Chlamtáč , Pasin Manurangsi

Developing classification methods with high accuracy that also avoid unfair treatment of different groups has become increasingly important for data-driven decision making in social applications. Many existing methods enforce fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Ashkan Rezaei , Rizal Fathony , Omid Memarrast , Brian Ziebart

Health data are often not symmetric to be adequately modeled through the usual normal distributions; most of them exhibit skewed patterns. They can indeed be modeled better through the larger family of skew-normal distributions covering…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-24 Amarnath Nandy , Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh

In any parametric inference problem, the robustness of the procedure is a real concern. A procedure which retains a high degree of efficiency under the model and simultaneously provides stable inference under data contamination is…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-01 Ayanendranath Basu , Abhijit Mandal , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

A new family of minimum distance estimators for binary logistic regression models based on $\phi$-divergence measures is introduced. The so called "pseudo minimum phi-divergence estimator"(PM$\phi$E) family is presented as an extension of…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-09 Elena Castilla , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

Consensus is a well-studied problem in distributed sensing, computation and control, yet deriving useful and easily computable bounds on the rate of convergence to consensus remains a challenge. This paper discusses the use of seminorms for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Ron Ofir , Ji Liu , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson

Density-power-based divergences are known to provide robust inference procedures against outliers, and their extensions have been widely studied. A characteristic of successful divergences is that the estimation problem can be reduced to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Masahiro Kobayashi

In this work we introduce a family of transformations, named \textit{divergence transformations}, interpolating between any pair of probability density functions sharing the same support. We prove the remarkable property that the whole…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , David Puertas-Centeno , Elio V. Toranzo

In [P. Majumdar, S. K. Samanta, Similarity measure of soft sets, New Mathematics and Natural Computation 4(1)(2008) 1-12], the authors use matrix representation based distances of soft sets to introduce matching function and distance based…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Athar Kharal

We propose a new family of regularized R\'enyi divergences parametrized not only by the order $\alpha$ but also by a variational function space. These new objects are defined by taking the infimal convolution of the standard R\'enyi…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-16 Jeremiah Birrell , Yannis Pantazis , Paul Dupuis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet

Divergences often play important roles for study in information science so that it is indispensable to investigate their fundamental properties. There is also a mathematical significance of such results. In this paper, we introduce some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-19 S. Furuichi , F. -C. Mitroi

A number of important observables exhibit logarithms in their perturbative description that are induced by emissions at widely separated rapidities. These include transverse-momentum ($q_T$) logarithms, logarithms involving heavy-quark or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-24 Markus A. Ebert , Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

The aim of this paper is to study different estimation procedures based on $\varphi-$divergences. The dual representation of $\varphi-$divergences based on the Fenchel-Legendre duality is the main interest of this study. It provides a way…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-10-13 Diaa Al Mohamad

This paper develops systematic approaches to obtain $f$-divergence inequalities, dealing with pairs of probability measures defined on arbitrary alphabets. Functional domination is one such approach, where special emphasis is placed on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Igal Sason , Sergio Verdú

We introduce a family of scale-invariant entropy statistics derived from logarithmically aggregated distance distributions of point processes, with prime numbers serving as a motivating example. The construction associates to each finite…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-06 Mohamed Gewily

This paper presents new families of Rao-type test statistics based on the minimum density power divergence estimators which provide robust generalizations for testing simple and composite null hypotheses. The asymptotic null distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-27 Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

We prove distributional convergence for a family of random processes on $\mathbb{Z}$, which we call asymmetric cooperative motions. The model generalizes the "totally asymmetric hipster random walk" introduced in [Addario-Berry, Cairns,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Louigi Addario-Berry , Erin Beckman , Jessica Lin

A new version of classical S-procedure in system theory is proposed based on duality in the space of positive definite matrices and introduction of matrix Lagrange multipliers. A new proof and extension of the recent results of T.Iwasaki,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Fradkov