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Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric measure spaces. A random geometric graph is generated by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points independently with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

This paper proposes a unified class of generalized location-scale mixture of multivariate elliptical distributions and studies integral stochastic orderings of random vectors following such distributions. Given a random vector…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Tong Pu , Yiying Zhang , Chuancun Yin

We study a non-parametric approach to multivariate density estimation. The estimators are piecewise constant density functions supported by binary partitions. The partition of the sample space is learned by maximizing the likelihood of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Linxi Liu , Wing Hung Wong

Consider a scalar reflected diffusion $(X_t:t\geq 0)$, where the unknown drift function $b$ is modelled nonparametrically. We show that in the low frequency sampling case, when the sample consists of $(X_0,X_\Delta,...,X_{n\Delta})$ for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Sven Wang

In this study, a density-on-density regression model is introduced, where the association between densities is elucidated via a warping function. The proposed model has the advantage of a being straightforward demonstration of how one…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-10 Yi Zhao , Abhirup Datta , Bohao Tang , Vadim Zipunnikov , Brian S. Caffo

We propose a novel deep neural network methodology for density estimation on product Riemannian manifold domains. In our approach, the network directly parameterizes the unknown density function and is trained using a penalized maximum…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 William Consagra , Zhiling Gu , Zhengwu Zhang

We investigate statistical properties of a likelihood approach to nonparametric estimation of a singular distribution using deep generative models. More specifically, a deep generative model is used to model high-dimensional data that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-29 Minwoo Chae , Dongha Kim , Yongdai Kim , Lizhen Lin

Elliptical distribution is a basic assumption underlying many multivariate statistical methods. For example, in sufficient dimension reduction and statistical graphical models, this assumption is routinely imposed to simplify the data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Yin Tang , Bing Li

The Earth movers distance (EMD) is a measure of distance between probability distributions which is at the heart of mass transportation theory. Recent research has shown that the EMD plays a crucial role in studying the potential impact of…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-15 Kyle Treleaven , Emilio Frazzoli

This paper is concerned with the study of a circular random distribution called geodesic Normal distribution recently proposed for general manifolds. This distribution, parameterized by two real numbers associated to some specific location…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-27 Jean-François Coeurjolly , Nicolas Le Bihan

Manifold data analysis is challenging due to the lack of parametric distributions on manifolds. To address this, we introduce a series of Riemannian radial distributions on Riemannian symmetric spaces. By utilizing the symmetry, we show…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Hengchao Chen

Dimensionality reduction is a crucial first step for many unsupervised learning tasks including anomaly detection and clustering. Autoencoder is a popular mechanism to accomplish dimensionality reduction. In order to make dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Imtiaz Ahmed , Travis Galoppo , Xia Hu , Yu Ding

Motivated by better modeling of intra-individual variability in longitudinal data, we propose a class of location-scale mixed effects models, in which the data of each individual is modeled by a parameter-varying generalized hyperbolic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Yuki Fujinaga , Hiroki Masuda

We study mixture of linear regression (random coefficient) models, which capture population heterogeneity by allowing the regression coefficients to follow an unknown distribution $G^*$. In contrast to common parametric methods that fix the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-01 Hansheng Jiang , Adityanand Guntuboyina

With the aim of estimating the abundance map from observations only, linear unmixing approaches are not always suitable to spectral images, especially when the number of bands is too small or when the spectra of the observed data are too…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Antoine Bottenmuller , Florent Magaud , Arnaud Demortière , Etienne Decencière , Petr Dokladal

Density estimation is a crucial component of many machine learning methods, and manifold learning in particular, where geometry is to be constructed from data alone. A significant practical limitation of the current density estimation…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Tyrus Berry , Timothy Sauer

Multilayer bootstrap network builds a gradually narrowed multilayer nonlinear network from bottom up for unsupervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Each layer of the network is a nonparametric density estimator. It consists of a group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Xiao-Lei Zhang

This note presents a refined local approximation for the logarithm of the ratio between the negative multinomial probability mass function and a multivariate normal density, both having the same mean-covariance structure. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Christian Genest , Frédéric Ouimet

When observations are truncated, we are limited to an incomplete picture of our dataset. Recent methods propose to use score matching for truncated density estimation, where the access to the intractable normalising constant is not…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-15 Daniel J. Williams , Song Liu

Statistical analysis is increasingly confronted with complex data from metric spaces. Petersen and M\"uller (2019) established a general paradigm of Fr\'echet regression with complex metric space valued responses and Euclidean predictors.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-10 Rui Qiu , Zhou Yu , Ruoqing Zhu