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We present a unified approach to Doob's $L^p$ maximal inequalities for $1\leq p<\infty$. The novelty of our method is that these martingale inequalities are obtained as consequences of elementary deterministic counterparts. The latter have…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-22 B. Acciaio , M. Beiglböck , F. Penkner , W. Schachermayer , J. Temme

In the theory of progressive enlargements of filtrations, the supermartingale $Z_{t}=\mathbf{P}(g>t\mid \mathcal{F}_{t}) $ associated with an honest time g, and its additive (Doob-Meyer) decomposition, play an essential role. In this paper,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-08-03 A. Nikeghbali , M. Yor

Obtaining a non-parametric expression for an interventional distribution is one of the most fundamental tasks in causal inference. Such an expression can be obtained for an identifiable causal effect by an algorithm or by manual application…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Santtu Tikka , Juha Karvanen

We develop operators for construction of proposals in probabilistic programs, which we refer to as inference combinators. Inference combinators define a grammar over importance samplers that compose primitive operations such as application…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-18 Sam Stites , Heiko Zimmermann , Hao Wu , Eli Sennesh , Jan-Willem van de Meent

We study Doob's martingale convergence theorem for computable continuous time martingales on Brownian motion, in the context of algorithmic randomness. A characterization of the class of sample points for which the theorem holds is given.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen , Paul Kim Long V. Nguyen , Jason Rute

In this work, we study the fully automated inference of expected result values of probabilistic programs in the presence of natural programming constructs such as procedures, local variables and recursion. While crucial, capturing these…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser , Michael Schaper

We study finite-horizon optimal switching with discrete intervention dates on a general filtration, allowing continuous-time observations between decision dates, and develop a deep-learning-based dual framework with computable upper bounds.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Junyan Ye , Hoi Ying Wong

In this article we study and classify optimal martingales in the dual formulation of optimal stopping problems. In this respect we distinguish between weakly optimal and surely optimal martingales. It is shown that the family of weakly…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Denis Belomestny , John Schoenmakers

We tackle the problem of conditioning probabilistic programs on distributions of observable variables. Probabilistic programs are usually conditioned on samples from the joint data distribution, which we refer to as deterministic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 David Tolpin , Yuan Zhou , Tom Rainforth , Hongseok Yang

Discrete probabilistic programs (DPPs) provide a highly expressive formalism for compactly defining arbitrary finite probabilistic models. This expressivity comes at a price: DPP inference is PSPACE-hard. In this work, we show that DPP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Benedikt Peterseim , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

Probabilistic programming has become a standard practice to model stochastic events and learn about the behavior of nature in different scientific contexts, ranging from Genetics and Ecology to Linguistics and Psychology. However, domain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Guilherme Espada , Alcides Fonseca

Probabilistic hyperproperties specify quantitative relations between the probabilities of reaching different target sets of states from different initial sets of states. This class of behavioral properties is suitable for capturing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Roman Andriushchenko , Ezio Bartocci , Milan Ceska , Francesco Pontiggia , Sarah Sallinger

The prior distribution on parameters of a sampling distribution is the usual starting point for Bayesian uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we present a different perspective which focuses on missing observations as the source of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-23 Edwin Fong , Chris Holmes , Stephen G. Walker

The density hypothesis on random times becomes now a standard in modeling of risks. One of the basic reasons to introduce the density hypothesis is the desire to have a computable credit risk model. However, recent work shows that merely an…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Shiqi Song

This thesis presents a formalization of martingales in arbitrary Banach spaces using Isabelle/HOL. We begin by examining formalizations in prominent proof repositories and extend the definition of the conditional expectation operator from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Ata Keskin

Supermartingales are here defined on a non-probabilistic setting and can be interpreted solely in terms of superhedging operations. The classical expectation operator is replaced by a pair of subadditive operators one of them providing a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-26 C. Bender , S. E. Ferrando , K. Gajewski , A. L. Gonzalez

We present a new deep primal-dual backward stochastic differential equation framework based on stopping time iteration to solve optimal stopping problems. A novel loss function is proposed to learn the conditional expectation, which…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-09-12 Jiefei Yang , Guanglian Li

We propose \textit{DeepMartingale}, a deep-learning framework for the dual formulation of discrete-monitoring optimal stopping problems under continuous-time models. Leveraging a martingale representation, our method implements a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Junyan Ye , Hoi Ying Wong

Rare event sampling in dynamical systems is a fundamental problem arising in the natural sciences, which poses significant computational challenges due to an exponentially large space of trajectories. For settings where the dynamical system…

This paper introduces a general approach for synthesizing procedural models of the state-transitions of a given discrete system. The approach is general in that it accepts different target languages for modeling the state-transitions of a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Jonathan Ferrer-Mestres , Sergio Jiménez