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Regularized system identification is the major advance in system identification in the last decade. Although many promising results have been achieved, it is far from complete and there are still many key problems to be solved. One of them…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Yue Ju , Biqiang Mu , Lennart Ljung , Tianshi Chen

The mean field methods, which entail approximating intractable probability distributions variationally with distributions from a tractable family, enjoy high efficiency, guaranteed convergence, and provide lower bounds on the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Eric P. Xing , Michael I. Jordan , Stuart Russell

Probabilistic graphical models are a key tool in machine learning applications. Computing the partition function, i.e., normalizing constant, is a fundamental task of statistical inference but it is generally computationally intractable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-29 Sungsoo Ahn , Michael Chertkov , Adrian Weller , Jinwoo Shin

In this paper, we introduce a computational framework for recovering a high-resolution approximation of an unknown function from its low-resolution indirect measurements as well as high-resolution training observations by merging the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Milana Gataric

Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Pierre Baqué , Jean-Hubert Hours , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

Conventional compressed sensing theory assumes signals have sparse representations in a known, finite dictionary. Nevertheless, in many practical applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and line spectral estimation, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Jing Li , Hongbin Li , Rick S. Blum

Compressive Sensing (CS) exploits the surprising fact that the information contained in a sparse signal can be preserved in a small number of compressive, often random linear measurements of that signal. Strong theoretical guarantees have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Armin Eftekhari , Michael B. Wakin

In this paper, we study a simple correlation-based strategy for estimating the unknown delay and amplitude of a signal based on a small number of noisy, randomly chosen frequency-domain samples. We model the output of this "compressive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Armin Eftekhari , Justin Romberg , Michael B. Wakin

We propose a nonparametric estimator of multivariate joint entropy based on partitioned sample spacing (PSS). The method extends univariate spacing ideas to $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ by partitioning into localized cells and aggregating within-cell…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jungwoo Ho , Sangun Park , Soyeong Oh

Recent remarkable advances in the experimental techniques have provided a background for inferring neuronal couplings from point process data that includes a great number of neurons. Here, we propose a systematic procedure for pre- and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-08 Yu Terada , Tomoyuki Obuchi , Takuya Isomura , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Markov random fields are used to model high dimensional distributions in a number of applied areas. Much recent interest has been devoted to the reconstruction of the dependency structure from independent samples from the Markov random…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Guy Bresler , Elchanan Mossel , Allan Sly

Recent work has shown that probabilistic models based on pairwise interactions-in the simplest case, the Ising model-provide surprisingly accurate descriptions of experiments on real biological networks ranging from neurons to genes.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-12-18 Tamara Broderick , Miroslav Dudik , Gasper Tkacik , Robert E. Schapire , William Bialek

With the rapid growth of data, how to extract effective information from data is one of the most fundamental problems. In this paper, based on Tikhonov regularization, we propose an effective method for reconstructing the function and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Jiantang Zhang , Jin Cheng , Min Zhong

It was recently shown [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 110}, 227201 (2013)] that the critical behavior of the random-field Ising model in three dimensions is ruled by a single universality class. This conclusion was reached only after a proper taming…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-21 Nikolaos G. Fytas , Victor Martin-Mayor

The standard approach to Bayesian inference is based on the assumption that the distribution of the data belongs to the chosen model class. However, even a small violation of this assumption can have a large impact on the outcome of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-22 Jeffrey W. Miller , David B. Dunson

We present a framework for approximate Bayesian inference when only a limited number of noisy log-likelihood evaluations can be obtained due to computational constraints, which is becoming increasingly common for applications of complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-01 Marko Järvenpää , Jukka Corander

This work is dedicated to a novel sampling method for accurately reconstructing elastic and electromagnetic sources from the far field patterns. We show that the proposed indicators in the form of integrals with full far field patterns are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi

Estimating the expectation of a real-valued function of a random variable from sample data is a critical aspect of statistical analysis, with far-reaching implications in various applications. Current methodologies typically assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Paweł Lorek , Rafał Nowak , Rafał Topolnicki , Tomasz Trzciński , Maciej Zięba , Aleksandra Krystecka

We consider covariance parameter estimation for Gaussian processes with functional inputs. From an increasing-domain asymptotics perspective, we prove the asymptotic consistency and normality of the maximum likelihood estimator. We extend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Lucas Reding , Andrés F. López-Lopera , François Bachoc

We demonstrate the effectiveness of a generalized renormalized perturbational approach to calculate the induced magnetization for the single impurity Anderson model with a strong on-site interaction, using flow equations for renormalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-30 K. Edwards , A. C. Hewson , V. Pandis