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In this paper we propose a notion of stability, that we call $\epsilon -N$-stability, for systems of particles interacting via Newton's gravitational potential, and orbiting a much bigger object. For these systems the usual thermodynamical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Gabriella Pinzari , Benedetto Scoppola , Alessio Troiani

Since many real-world problems arising in the fields of compiler optimisation, automated software engineering, formal proof systems, and so forth are equivalent to the Halting Problem--the most notorious undecidable problem--there is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Cristian S. Calude , Michael A. Stay

We propose an algorithm for optimizations in which the gradients contain stochastic noise. This arises, for example, in structural optimizations when computations of forces and stresses rely on methods involving Monte Carlo sampling, such…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-30 Siyuan Chen , Shiwei Zhang

Noise is a part of data whether the data is from measurement, experiment or ... A few techniques are suggested for noise reduction to improve the data quality in recent years some of which are based on wavelet, orthogonalization and neural…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Negin Bagherpour , Abbas Mohammadiyan

Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) is a popular approach for learning probability density functions parameterized up to a constant of proportionality. The main idea is to design a classification problem for distinguishing training data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Holden Lee , Chirag Pabbaraju , Anish Sevekari , Andrej Risteski

Given the significance of physical measures in understanding the complexity of dynamical systems as well as the noisy nature of real-world systems, investigating the stability of physical measures under noise perturbations is undoubtedly a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Weiwei Qi , Zhongwei Shen , Yingfei Yi

Locating a target is key in many applications, namely in high-stakes real-world scenarios, like detecting humans or obstacles in vehicular networks. In scenarios where precise statistics of the measurement noise are unavailable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-17 João Domingos , Cláudia Soares , João Xavier

An algorithm based on the interior-point methodology for solving continuous nonlinearly constrained optimization problems is proposed, analyzed, and tested. The distinguishing feature of the algorithm is that it presumes that only noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Frank E. Curtis , Shima Dezfulian , Andreas Waechter

We study the problem of super-resolution, where we recover the locations and weights of non-negative point sources from a few samples of their convolution with a Gaussian kernel. It has been shown that exact recovery is possible by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Stéphane Chrétien , Andrew Thompson , Bogdan Toader

We initiate a formal study of reproducibility in optimization. We define a quantitative measure of reproducibility of optimization procedures in the face of noisy or error-prone operations such as inexact or stochastic gradient computations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Kwangjun Ahn , Prateek Jain , Ziwei Ji , Satyen Kale , Praneeth Netrapalli , Gil I. Shamir

Quantum compilation is the problem of translating an input quantum circuit into the most efficient equivalent of itself, taking into account the characteristics of the device that will execute the computation. Compilation strategies are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Davide Ferrari , Michele Amoretti

Algorithmic stability is a central concept in statistics and learning theory that measures how sensitive an algorithm's output is to small changes in the training data. Stability plays a crucial role in understanding generalization,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Abhinav Chakraborty , Yuetian Luo , Rina Foygel Barber

Consider a real-valued function that can only be observed with stochastic noise at a finite set of design points within a Euclidean space. We wish to determine whether there exists a convex function that goes through the true function…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-07-30 Nanjing Jian , Shane G. Henderson

In this paper we consider the problem of finding stable maxima of expensive (to evaluate) functions. We are motivated by the optimisation of physical and industrial processes where, for some input ranges, small and unavoidable variations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-22 Alistair Shilton , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh , Majid Abdolshah , Dang Nguyen

We prove a vector-valued inequality for the Gaussian noise stability (i.e. we prove a vector-valued Borell inequality) for Euclidean functions taking values in the two-dimensional sphere, for all correlation parameters at most $1/10$ in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Steven Heilman

Information-theoretic definitions for the noise associated with a quantum measurement and the corresponding disturbance to the state of the system have recently been introduced [F. Buscemi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 050401 (2014)]. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Alastair A. Abbott , Cyril Branciard

Many simulations of stochastic processes require colored noises: I describe here an exact numerical method to simulate power-law noises: the method can be extended to more general colored noises, and is exact for all time steps, even when…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edoardo Milotti

We construct a noise stable sequence of transitive, monotone increasing Boolean functions $f_n: \{-1,1\}^{k_n} \longrightarrow \{-1,1\}$ which admit many pivotals with high probability. We show that such a sequence is volatile as well, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Pál Galicza

Quantum advantage requires overcoming noise-induced degradation of quantum systems. Conventional methods for reducing noise such as error mitigation face scalability issues in deep circuits. Specifically, noise hampers the extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yonglong Ding , Ruyu Yang

Advancements in quantum computing have spurred significant interest in harnessing its potential for speedups over classical systems. However, noise remains a major obstacle to achieving reliable quantum algorithms. In this work, we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Lucas Tecot , Di Luo , Cho-Jui Hsieh