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Diffusion models have quickly become some of the most popular and powerful generative models for high-dimensional data. The key insight that enabled their development was the realization that access to the score -- the gradient of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenghan Fang , Mateo Díaz , Sam Buchanan , Jeremias Sulam

For k>=1, we consider the graph dynamical system known as a k-reversible process. In such process, each vertex in the graph has one of two possible states at each discrete time. Each vertex changes its state between the present time and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Leonardo I. L. Oliveira , Valmir C. Barbosa , Fábio Protti

We study the problem of smooth imitation learning for online sequence prediction, where the goal is to train a policy that can smoothly imitate demonstrated behavior in a dynamic and continuous environment in response to online, sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Hoang M. Le , Andrew Kang , Yisong Yue , Peter Carr

The smoothing distribution is the conditional distribution of the diffusion process in the space of trajectories given noisy observations made continuously in time. It is generally difficult to sample from this distribution. We use the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Oskar Eklund , Annika Lang , Moritz Schauer

We consider the problem of sorting $n$ items, given the outcomes of $m$ pre-existing comparisons. We present a simple and natural deterministic algorithm that runs in $O(m + \log T)$ time and does $O(\log T)$ comparisons, where $T$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , John Iacono , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

Popular deterministic approximations of posterior distributions from, e.g. the Laplace method, variational Bayes and expectation-propagation, generally rely on symmetric approximating families, often taken to be Gaussian. This choice…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-19 Francesco Pozza , Daniele Durante , Botond Szabo

This article demonstrates how recent developments in the theory of empirical processes allow us to construct a new family of asymptotically distribution-free smooth tests. Their distribution-free property is preserved even when the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Xiangyu Zhang , Sara Algeri

We present highly optimized data structures for the dynamic predecessor problem, where the task is to maintain a set $S$ of $w$-bit numbers under insertions, deletions, and predecessor queries (return the largest element in $S$ no larger…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Patrick Dinklage , Johannes Fischer , Alexander Herlez

A family of random probabilities is defined and studied. This family contains the Dirichlet process as a special case, corresponding to an inner point in the appropriate parameter space. The extension makes it possible to have random means…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Nils Lid Hjort

Exploitation of symmetries is an indispensable approach to solve certain classes of difficult SAT instances. Numerous techniques for the use of symmetry in SAT have evolved over the past few decades. But no matter how symmetries are used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Markus Anders

We consider the problem of performing predecessor searches in a bounded universe while achieving query times that depend on the distribution of queries. We obtain several data structures with various properties: in particular, we give data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Prosenjit Bose , Rolf Fagerberg , John Howat , Pat Morin

We study the classical scheduling problem on parallel machines %with precedence constraints where the precedence graph has the bounded depth $h$. Our goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. We focus on developing approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

In a given problem, the Bayesian statistical paradigm requires the specification of a prior distribution that quantifies relevant information about the unknowns of main interest external to the data. In cases where little such information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Alexander Terenin , David Draper

This paper focuses on the analysis of real-time non preemptive multiprocessor scheduling with precedence and several latency constraints. It aims to specify a schedulability condition which enables a designer to check a priori -without…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Omar Kermia

We analyze the convergence of gradient-based optimization algorithms that base their updates on delayed stochastic gradient information. The main application of our results is to the development of gradient-based distributed optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Alekh Agarwal , John C. Duchi

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

The use of continuous probability distributions has been widespread in problems with purely discrete nature. In general, such distributions are not appropriate in this scenario. In this paper, we introduce a class of discrete and asymmetric…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-21 Helton Saulo , Roberto Vila , Leonardo Paiva , Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

The successor and predecessor problem consists of obtaining the closest value in a set of integers, greater/smaller than a given value. This problem has interesting applications, like the intersection of inverted lists. It can be easily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Adrián Gómez-Brandón

We consider resequencing studies of associated loci and the problem of prioritizing sequence variants for functional follow-up. Working within the multivariate linear regression framework helps us to account for correlation across variants,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-06 Laurel Stell , Chiara Sabatti

We give an improved theoretical analysis of score-based generative modeling. Under a score estimate with small $L^2$ error (averaged across timesteps), we provide efficient convergence guarantees for any data distribution with second-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hongrui Chen , Holden Lee , Jianfeng Lu