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We introduce the notion of clique number of a tournament and investigate its relation with the dichromatic number. In particular, it permits defining $\dic$-bounded classes of tournaments, which is the paper's main topic.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Pierre Aboulker , Guillaume Aubian , Pierre Charbit , Raul Lopes

We show that the class of all finite regular tournaments is cofinal in the class of finite tournaments. In addition, we establish cofinality results for certain special subclasses of regular tournaments. We also provide an algorithm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Omar Hatem , Sara Mohamed , Isabel Müller , Daoud Siniora

Analyzing football score data with statistical techniques, we investigate how the highly co-operative nature of the game is reflected in averaged properties such as the distributions of scored goals for the home and away teams. It turns out…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Elmar Bittner , Andreas Nussbaumer , Wolfhard Janke , Martin Weigel

The distribution function of particles over clusters is proposed for a system of identical intersecting spheres, the centres of which are uniformly distributed in space. Consideration is based on the concept of the rank number of clusters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-01 Murat Kh. Khokonov , Azamat Kh. Khokonov

Convergence bounds are one of the main tools to obtain information on the performance of a distributed machine learning task, before running the task itself. In this work, we perform a set of experiments to assess to which extent, and in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Francesco Malandrino , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Tournament solutions are standard tools for identifying winners based on pairwise comparisons between competing alternatives. The recently studied notion of margin of victory (MoV) offers a general method for refining the winner set of any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Markus Brill , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Warut Suksompong

Real world tournaments are almost always intransitive. Recent works have noted that parametric models which assume $d$ dimensional node representations can effectively model intransitive tournaments. However, nothing is known about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Arun Rajkumar , Vishnu Veerathu , Abdul Bakey Mir

This paper explores the computational complexity of diffusion-based language modeling. We prove a dichotomy based on the quality of the score-matching network in a diffusion model. In one direction, a network that exactly computes the score…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuxi Liu

In this article, we study directed graphs (digraphs) with a coloring constraint due to Von Neumann and related to Nim-type games. This is equivalent to the notion of kernels of digraphs, which appears in numerous fields of research such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-06 Cyril Banderier , Jean-Marie Le Bars , Vlady Ravelomanana

We consider distributions on $\mathbb{R}$ that can be written as the sum of a non-zero discrete distribution and an absolutely continuous distribution. We show that such a distribution is quasi-infinitely divisible if and only if its…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-21 David Berger , Merve Kutlu

We study the joint degree counts in proportional attachment random graphs and find a simple representation for the limit distribution in infinite sequence space. We show weak convergence with respect to the p-norm topology for appropriate p…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Erol A. Peköz , Adrian Röllin , Nathan Ross

The structure of transformation semigroups on a finite set is analyzed by introducing a hierarchy of functions mapping subsets to subsets. The resulting hierarchy of semigroups has a corresponding hierarchy of minimal ideals, or kernels.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-02 G. Budzban , Ph. Feinsilver

We study the probability distribution of the number of zeros of multivariable polynomials with bounded degree over a finite field. We find the probability generating function for each set of bounded degree polynomials. In particular, in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Ritik Jain , Han-Bom Moon , Peter Wu

We provide self-contained proof of a theorem relating probabilistic coherence of forecasts to their non-domination by rival forecasts with respect to any proper scoring rule. The theorem appears to be new but is closely related to results…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-15 Joel Predd , Robert Seiringer , Elliott H. Lieb , Daniel Osherson , Vincent Poor , Sanjeev Kulkarni

We study the statistical properties of the entropic optimal (self) transport problem for smooth probability measures. We provide an accurate description of the limit distribution for entropic (self-)potentials and plans as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Gilles Mordant

Single-elimination (SE) tournaments are a popular format used in competitive environments and decision making. Algorithms for SE tournament manipulation have been an active topic of research in recent years. In this paper, we initiate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Sushmita Gupta , M. S. Ramanujan , Peter Strulo

We consider the problem of inferring an unknown ranking of $n$ items from a random tournament on $n$ vertices whose edge directions are correlated with the ranking. We establish, in terms of the strength of these correlations, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Dmitriy Kunisky , Daniel A. Spielman , Xifan Yu

We say a digraph $G$ is a {\em minor} of a digraph $H$ if $G$ can be obtained from a subdigraph of $H$ by repeatedly contracting a strongly-connected subdigraph to a vertex. Here, we show the class of all tournaments is a well-quasi-order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Ilhee Kim , Paul Seymour

Let $\{X_n, n \ge 1\}$ be a sequence of stationary associated random variables. We discuss another set of conditions under which a central limit theorem for U-statistics based on $\{X_n, n \ge 1\}$ holds. We look at U-statistics based on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Mansi Garg , Isha Dewan

We note with B2 the Boole algebra with two elements. We define for the R->B2 functions the limits, the derivatives, the differentiability, the test functions, the integrals. We also define the distributions over the space of these test…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Serban E. Vlad