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Topological data analysis offers a rich source of valuable information to study vision problems. Yet, so far we lack a theoretically sound connection to popular kernel-based learning techniques, such as kernel SVMs or kernel PCA. In this…

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A natural way to generalise tensor network variational classes to quantum field systems is via a continuous tensor contraction. This approach is first illustrated for the class of quantum field states known as continuous matrix-product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 David Jennings , Christoph Brockt , Jutho Haegeman , Tobias J. Osborne , Frank Verstraete

Temporal Point Processes (TPPs) hold a pivotal role in modeling event sequences across diverse domains, including social networking and e-commerce, and have significantly contributed to the advancement of recommendation systems and…

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Classifiers based on neural networks (NN) often lack a measure of uncertainty in the predicted class. We propose a method to estimate the probability mass function (PMF) of the different classes, as well as the covariance of the estimated…

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Federated clustering, an essential extension of centralized clustering for federated scenarios, enables multiple data-holding clients to collaboratively group data while keeping their data locally. In centralized scenarios, clustering…

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We establish inequalities for assessing the distance between the distribution of a (possibly multidimensional) functional of a Poisson random measure and that of a Gaussian element. Our bounds only involve add-one cost operators at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Raphaël Lachièze-Rey , Giovanni Peccati , Xiaochuan Yang

Products between phase-type distributed random variables and any independent, positive and continuous random variable are studied. Their asymptotic properties are established, and an expectation-maximization algorithm for their effective…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Hansjoerg Albrecher , Martin Bladt , Mogens Bladt , Jorge Yslas

We study continuity and discontinuity properties of some popular measure-dimension mappings under some topologies on the space of probability measures in this work. We give examples to show that no continuity can be guaranteed under general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Liangang Ma

We develop a quantitative statistical theory of transformers in the large-context regime by adopting the abstraction of contextual flow maps (CFMs): dynamical systems that evolve a distinguished token in the presence of a contextual measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shi Chen , Zhengjiang Lin , Kaizhao Liu , Philippe Rigollet

We discuss the geometric foundation behind the use of stochastic processes in the frame bundle of a smooth manifold to build stochastic models with applications in statistical analysis of non-linear data. The transition densities for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-29 Stefan Sommer , Anne Marie Svane

Quantifying degrees of fusion and separability between data groups in representation space is a fundamental problem in representation learning, particularly under domain shift. A meaningful metric should capture fusion-altering factors like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiaolong Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Xubo Song

Model selection in clustering requires (i) to specify a suitable clustering principle and (ii) to control the model order complexity by choosing an appropriate number of clusters depending on the noise level in the data. We advocate an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Joachim M. Buhmann

This paper introduces a novel uncertainty quantification framework for regression models where the response takes values in a separable metric space, and the predictors are in a Euclidean space. The proposed algorithms can efficiently…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Gábor Lugosi , Marcos Matabuena

In this paper, we propose a new method to measure the probabilistic robustness of stochastic jump linear system with respect to both the initial state uncertainties and the randomness in switching. Wasserstein distance which defines a…

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In this paper we consider a variety of procedures for numerical statistical inference in the family of univariate and multivariate stable distributions. In connection with univariate distributions (i) we provide approximations by finite…

Computation · Statistics 2012-09-04 Efthymios G. Tsionas

In this article, a Probability Mass Function (PMF) estimation method which tames the curse of dimensionality is proposed. This method, called Partial Coupled Tensor Factorization of 3D marginals or PCTF3D, has for principle to partially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Philippe Flores , Konstantin Usevich , David Brie

Clustering is a data analysis method for extracting knowledge by discovering groups of data called clusters. Among these methods, state-of-the-art density-based clustering methods have proven to be effective for arbitrary-shaped clusters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Nabil El Malki , Robin Cugny , Olivier Teste , Franck Ravat

(Talk presented at the XVth Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, Quantizations, Deformations and Coherent States, in Bialowieza, Poland, July 1-7, 1996.) The aim of this article is to introduce some basic notions of Topological Quantum…

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Distributional (or distribution-valued) data are a new type of data arising from several sources and are considered as realizations of distributional variables. A new set of fuzzy c-means algorithms for data described by distributional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-03 Antonio Irpino , Francisco De Carvalho , Rosanna Verde

Informational dependence between statistical or quantum subsystems can be described with Fisher matrix or Fubini-Study metric obtained from variations of the sample/configuration space coordinates. Using these non-covariant objects as…

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