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Non-linear and non-Gaussian signal inference problems are difficult to tackle. Renormalization techniques permit us to construct good estimators for the posterior signal mean within information field theory (IFT), but the approximations and…

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This work proposes a Bayesian inference method for the reduced-order modeling of time-dependent systems. Informed by the structure of the governing equations, the task of learning a reduced-order model from data is posed as a Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Mengwu Guo , Shane A. McQuarrie , Karen E. Willcox

In this work we consider Bayesian inference problems with intractable likelihood functions. We present a method to compute an approximate of the posterior with a limited number of model simulations. The method features an inverse Gaussian…

Computation · Statistics 2021-02-23 Hongqiao Wang , Ziqiao Ao , Tengchao Yu , Jinglai Li

The Operator axioms have produced new real numbers with new operators. New operators naturally produce new equations and thus extend the traditional mathematical models which are selected to describe various scientific rules. So new…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Pith Peishu Xie

An analytically derived 'integral operator' approach is introduced to estimate the expectation value of a quantum operator for an evolving state weighted with an exponential function. This allows to compute quantities useful in Nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Simone Sturniolo

Koopman Operator Theory has opened the doors to data-driven learning of globally linear representations of complex nonlinear systems. However, current methodologies for Koopman Operator discovery struggle with uncertainty quantification and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Abhigyan Majumdar , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

The Bayesian approach to ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert space recently gained attraction. In this context, and when the prior distribution is Gaussian, then two operators play a significant role, the one which governs the operator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Peter Mathé

Applying Physics-Informed Gaussian Process Regression to the eigenvalue problem $(\mathcal{L}-\lambda)u = 0$ poses a fundamental challenge, where the null source term results in a trivial predictive mean and a degenerate marginal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Tianming Bai , Jiannan Yang

In general, in gauge field theories, physical observables are represented by gauge-invariant composite operators, such as the electromagnetic current. As we recently demonstrated in the context of the $U\left(1\right)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Giovani Peruzzo

The current standard Bayesian approach to model calibration, which assigns a Gaussian process prior to the discrepancy term, often suffers from issues of unidentifiability and computational complexity and instability. When the goal is to…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-13 Spencer Woody , Novin Ghaffari , Lauren Hund

Probabilistic numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations compute posterior distributions over the solution of an initial value problem via Bayesian inference. In this paper, we leverage their probabilistic formulation to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-22 Nathanael Bosch , Filip Tronarp , Philipp Hennig

Bayesian optimization (BO) has established itself as a leading strategy for efficiently optimizing expensive-to-evaluate functions. Existing BO methods mostly rely on Gaussian process (GP) surrogate models and are not applicable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Yongsheng Mei , Mahdi Imani , Tian Lan

An attempt has been made in this paper to modify Grover's Algorithm to find the binary string solutions approximating a target cost value. In that direction, new Controlled Oracle and the Local Diffusion Operator are suggested, apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Sayantan Pramanik , M Girish Chandra , Shampa Sarkar , Manoj Nambiar

We introduce a new approach to the spectral equivalence of Gaussian processes and fields, based on the methods of operator theory in Hilbert space. Besides several new results including identities in law of quadratic norms for integrated…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-17 A. I. Nazarov , Ya. Yu. Nikitin

The Koopman operator, as a linear representation of a nonlinear dynamical system, has been attracting attention in many fields of science. Recently, Koopman operator theory has been combined with another concept that is popular in data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Septimus Boshoff , Sebastian Peitz , Stefan Klus

Computing a Gaussian process (GP) posterior has a computational cost cubical in the number of historical points. A reformulation of the same GP posterior highlights that this complexity mainly depends on how many \emph{unique} historical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-01 Daniele Calandriello , Luigi Carratino , Alessandro Lazaric , Michal Valko , Lorenzo Rosasco

We provide a method for estimating the expectation value of an operator that can utilize prior knowledge to accelerate the learning process on a quantum computer. Specifically, suppose we have an operator that can be expressed as a concise…

This paper tackles efficient methods for Bayesian inverse problems with priors based on Whittle--Mat\'ern Gaussian random fields. The Whittle--Mat\'ern prior is characterized by a mean function and a covariance operator that is taken as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Harbir Antil , Arvind K. Saibaba

We use rescaled Gaussian processes as prior models for functional parameters in nonparametric statistical models. We show how the rate of contraction of the posterior distributions depends on the scaling factor. In particular, we exhibit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Aad van der Vaart , Harry van Zanten

In this article, we propose and develop a novel Bayesian algorithm for optimization of functions whose first and second partial derivatives are known. The basic premise is the Gaussian process representation of the function which induces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Sucharita Roy , Sourabh Bhattacharya
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