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Reconstructing the density fluctuations in the early Universe that evolved into the distribution of galaxies we see today is a challenge of modern cosmology [ref.]. An accurate reconstruction would allow us to test cosmological models by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Uriel Frisch , Sabino Matarrese , Roya Mohayaee , Andrei Sobolevski

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

This paper develops a computational model of paraphrase under which text modification is carried out reluctantly; that is, there are external constraints, such as length or readability, on an otherwise ideal text, and modifications to the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Mark Dras

The time to first crossing for the Poisson counting process with respect to a linear moving barrier with offset is a classic problem, although key results remain scattered across the literature and their equivalence is often unclear. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ivan N. Burenev , Michael J. Kearney , Satya N. Majumdar

A rapidly increasing number of systems is identified in which the stochastic motion of tracer particles follows the Brownian law $\langle\mathbf{r}^2(t) \rangle\simeq Dt$ yet the distribution of particle displacements is strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 V. Sposini , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

One of the most compelling features of global discrete diffusion language models is their global bidirectional contextual capability. However, existing block-based diffusion studies tend to introduce autoregressive priors, which, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Linrui Ma , Yufei Cui , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Continual learning, the setting where a learning agent is faced with a never ending stream of data, continues to be a great challenge for modern machine learning systems. In particular the online or "single-pass through the data" setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Rahaf Aljundi , Lucas Caccia , Eugene Belilovsky , Massimo Caccia , Min Lin , Laurent Charlin , Tinne Tuytelaars

Recently, a new formalism describing the anomalous diffusion processes, based on the Onsager-Machlup fluctuation theory, has been suggested \cite{Smain, Spub}. We study particles performing this new type of motion, under the action of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 A. S. Bodrova , S. I. Serdyukov

We propose a generalized version of context-sensitivity in term rewriting based on the notion of "forbidden patterns". The basic idea is that a rewrite step should be forbidden if the redex to be contracted has a certain shape and appears…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-01-26 Bernhard Gramlich , Felix Schernhammer

We study the effect of a resetting point randomly distributed around the origin on the mean first passage time of a Brownian searcher moving in one dimension. We compare the search efficiency with that corresponding to reset to the origin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-03 Vicenç Mendez , Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos

First passage time statistics in disordered systems exhibiting scale invariance are studied widely. In particular, long trapping times in energy or entropic traps are fat-tailed distributed, which slow the overall transport process. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-26 Marc Höll , Alon Nissan , Brian Berkowitz , Eli Barkai

Conversational passage retrieval relies on question rewriting to modify the original question so that it no longer depends on the conversation history. Several methods for question rewriting have recently been proposed, but they were…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Svitlana Vakulenko , Nikos Voskarides , Zhucheng Tu , Shayne Longpre

Aging, the dependence of the dynamics of a physical process on the time $t_a$ since its original preparation, is observed in systems ranging from the motion of charge carriers in amorphous semiconductors over the blinking dynamics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Henning Kruesemann , Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

Consider a network embedded in the 2D plane, where a particle diffuses along the edges of the network. It is clear that over short length scales a particle moves along a single edge and thus undergoes one-dimensional diffusion. However, on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-23 D. B. Wilson , C. H. L. Beentjes

Subdiffusive motion of tracer particles in complex crowded environments, such as biological cells, has been shown to be widepsread. This deviation from brownian motion is usually characterized by a sublinear time dependence of the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , V. Tejedor , R. Voituriez , O. Benichou , J. Klafter

We investigate the first passage properties of a Brownian particle diffusing freely inside a $d$-dimensional sphere with absorbing spherical surface subject to stochastic resetting. We derive the mean time to absorption (MTA) as functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-22 Hanshuang Chen , Feng Huang

Multihop Question Answering (QA) requires systems to identify and synthesize information from multiple text passages. While most prior retrieval methods assist in identifying relevant passages for QA, further assessing the utility of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Akriti Jain , Aparna Garimella

Resetting is a strategy for boosting the speed of a target-searching process. Since its introduction over a decade ago, most studies have been carried out under the assumption that resetting takes place instantaneously. However, due to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-09 Priyo Shankar Pal , Arnab Pal , Hyunggyu Park , Jae Sung Lee

State-of-the-art deep reading comprehension models are dominated by recurrent neural nets. Their sequential nature is a natural fit for language, but it also precludes parallelization within an instances and often becomes the bottleneck for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Felix Wu , Ni Lao , John Blitzer , Guandao Yang , Kilian Weinberger

Text generation tasks, including translation, summarization, language models, and etc. see rapid growth during recent years. Despite the remarkable achievements, the repetition problem has been observed in nearly all text generation models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zihao Fu , Wai Lam , Anthony Man-Cho So , Bei Shi