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We develop a Markov process viewpoint for discrete circular distributions motivated by directional-statistics settings where angles are observed on a finite grid and evolve over time. On the $m$-point discrete circle, the cycle graph, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Sourav Majumdar

In the hypothesis selection problem, we are given sample and query access to finite set of candidate distributions (hypotheses), $\mathcal{H} = \{H_1, \ldots, H_n\}$, and samples from an unknown distribution $P$, both over a domain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Anders Aamand , Maryam Aliakbarpour , Justin Y. Chen , Sandeep Silwal

In [Schuhmacher, Electron. J. Probab. 10 (2005), 165--201] estimates of the Barbour-Brown distance d_2 between the distribution of a thinned point process and the distribution of a Poisson process were derived by combining discretization…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dominic Schuhmacher

The use of summary statistics beyond the two-point correlation function to analyze the non-Gaussian clustering on small scales is an active field of research in cosmology. In this paper, we explore a set of new summary statistics -- the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Arka Banerjee , Tom Abel

We consider the distributed version of the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP), where $m$ items are to be distributed amongst $n$ processors, each with a knapsack. We propose different distributed approximation algorithms with a tradeoff…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Ananth Murthy , Chandan Yeshwanth , Shrisha Rao

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO. However, in practice, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs) increases, the Rayleigh…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Qingfeng Lin , Ziyue Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

The complexity of nearest-neighbor search dominates the asymptotic running time of many sampling-based motion-planning algorithms. However, collision detection is often considered to be the computational bottleneck in practice. Examining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Michal Kleinbort , Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

Molecular sequence analysis is crucial for comprehending several biological processes, including protein-protein interactions, functional annotation, and disease classification. The large number of sequences and the inherently complicated…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-10 Sarwan Ali , Prakash Chourasia , Bipin Koirala , Murray Patterson

This paper is devoted to the estimation of a vector parametrizing an energy function associated to some "Nearest-Neighbours" Gibbs point process, via the pseudo-likelihood method. We present some convergence results concerning this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jean-Michel Billiot , Jean-François Coeurjolly , Rémy Drouilhet

The problem of base station cooperation has recently been set within the framework of Stochastic Geometry. Existing works consider that a user dynamically chooses the set of stations that cooperate for his/her service. However, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Anastasios Giovanidis , Luis David Alvarez Corrales , Laurent Decreusefond

This paper addresses a detection problem where several spatially distributed sensors independently observe a time-inhomogeneous stochastic process. The task is to decide between two hypotheses regarding the statistics of the observed…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Chetan D. Pahlajani , Ioannis Poulakakis , Herbert G. Tanner

Cross-correlations between datasets are used in many different contexts in cosmological analyses. Recently, $k$-Nearest Neighbor Cumulative Distribution Functions ($k{\rm NN}$-${\rm CDF}$) were shown to be sensitive probes of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Arka Banerjee , Tom Abel

The marked Hawkes risk process is a compound point process for which the occurrence and amplitude of past events impact the future. Thanks to its autoregressive properties, it found applications in various fields such as neuosciences,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Laure Coutin , Mahmoud Khabou

Nearest neighbor search is a basic computational tool used extensively in almost research domains of computer science specially when dealing with large amount of data. However, the use of nearest neighbor search is restricted for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Suman Saha , S. P. Ghrera

Nowadays, face recognition and more generally image recognition have many applications in the modern world and are widely used in our daily tasks. This paper aims to propose a distributed approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Aysan Aghazadeh , Maryam Amirmazlaghani

Consider an unlimited homogeneous medium disturbed by points generated via Poisson process. The neighborhood of a point plays an important role in spatial statistics problems. Here, we obtain analytically the distance statistics to $k$th…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Cristiano Roberto Fabri Granzotti , Alexandre Souto Martinez

We present massively parallel (MPC) algorithms and hardness of approximation results for computing Single-Linkage Clustering of $n$ input $d$-dimensional vectors under Hamming, $\ell_1, \ell_2$ and $\ell_\infty$ distances. All our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Adithya Vadapalli

While the Euclidean distance characteristics of the Poisson line Cox process (PLCP) have been investigated in the literature, the analytical characterization of the path distances is still an open problem. In this paper, we solve this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Carl P. Dettmann

We present a new approach to approximate nearest-neighbor queries in fixed dimension under a variety of non-Euclidean distances. We are given a set $S$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, an approximation parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ahmed Abdelkader , Sunil Arya , Guilherme D. da Fonseca , David M. Mount

We are interested in the problem of classifying Multivariate Hawkes Processes (MHP) paths coming from several classes. MHP form a versatile family of point processes that models interactions between connected individuals within a network.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Charlotte Dion-Blanc , Christophe Denis , Laure Sansonnet , Romain Edmond Lacoste