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Determining the exact decoding error probability of linear block codes is an interesting problem. For binary BCH codes, McEliece derived methods to estimate the error probability of a simple bounded distance decoding (BDD) for BCH codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sisi Miao , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

The block maximum method, which is widely used in extreme value analysis, uses a generalized extreme value distribution to approximate that of the maximum of m observations. The quality of this approximation depends on the value of m and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Léo R. Belzile , Anthony C. Davison

Approximate probabilistic inference algorithms are central to many fields. Examples include sequential Monte Carlo inference in robotics, variational inference in machine learning, and Markov chain Monte Carlo inference in statistics. A key…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Marco F. Cusumano-Towner , Vikash K. Mansinghka

Approximate computing is being considered as a promising design paradigm to overcome the energy and performance challenges in computationally demanding applications. If the case where the accuracy can be configured, the quality level versus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Shayan Tabatabaei Nikkhah , Mehdi Kamal , Ali Afzali-Kusha , Massoud Pedram

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing with index modulation (OFDM-IM) has become a high-profile candidate for the modulation scheme in next generation networks, and many works have been published to analyze it in recent years. Error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Shuping Dang , Guoqing Ma , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This study is aimed at answering the famous question of how the approximation errors at each iteration of Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) affect the quality of the final results considering the fact that errors at each iteration…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Ali Heydari

In distributed optimization problems, a technique called gradient coding, which involves replicating data points, has been used to mitigate the effect of straggling machines. Recent work has studied approximate gradient coding, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-09 Margalit Glasgow , Mary Wootters

This paper presents a method to calculate the exact average block error probability of some random code ensembles under maximum-likelihood decoding. The proposed method is applicable to various channels and ensembles. The focus is on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ralf R. Müller

We introduced and analyzed robust recovery-based a posteriori error estimators for various lower order finite element approximations to interface problems in [9, 10], where the recoveries of the flux and/or gradient are implicit (i.e.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Zhiqiang Cai , Shun Zhang

This paper is concerned with the analysis and implementation of robust finite element approximation methods for mixed formulations of linear elasticity problems where the elastic solid is almost incompressible. Several novel a posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Arbaz Khan , Catherine E. Powell , David J. Silvester

To facilitate the numerical analysis of particle methods, we derive truncation error estimates for the approximate operators in a generalized particle method. Here, a generalized particle method is defined as a meshfree numerical method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Yusuke Imoto

Dedicated hardware accelerators are suitable for parallel computational tasks. Moreover, they have the tendency to accept inexact results. These hardware accelerators are extensively used in image processing and computer vision…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Mahmoud Masadeh , Osman Hasan , Sofiene Tahar

We present some new and explicit error bounds for the approximation of distributions. The approximation error is quantified by the maximal density ratio of the distribution $Q$ to be approximated and its proxy $P$. This non-symmetric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Lutz Duembgen , Richard Samworth , Jon Wellner

We consider the two-dimensional discrete scan statistic generated by a block-factor type model obtained from i.i.d. sequence. We present an approximation for the distribution of the scan statistics and the corresponding error bounds. A…

Computation · Statistics 2014-01-14 Alexandru Amarioarei , Cristian Preda

In this paper we explore the problem of achieving efficient packet transmission over unreliable links with worst case occurrence of errors. In such a setup, even an omniscient offline scheduling strategy cannot achieve stability of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Antonio Fernández Anta , Chryssis Georgiou , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Joerg Widmer , Elli Zavou

We present a method to estimate block membership of nodes in a random graph generated by a stochastic blockmodel. We use an embedding procedure motivated by the random dot product graph model, a particular example of the latent position…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-04-30 Daniel L. Sussman , Minh Tang , Donniell E. Fishkind , Carey E. Priebe

Achieving error rates that meet or exceed the fault-tolerance threshold is a central goal for quantum computing experiments, and measuring these error rates using randomized benchmarking is now routine. However, direct comparison between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Richard Kueng , David M. Long , Andrew C. Doherty , Steven T. Flammia

This paper aims first at a simultaneous axiomatic presentation of the proof of optimal convergence rates for adaptive finite element methods and second at some refinements of particular questions like the avoidance of (discrete) lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Carsten Carstensen , Michael Feischl , Marcus Page , Dirk Praetorius

Convergence rates are established for an inexact accelerated alternating direction method of multipliers (I-ADMM) for general separable convex optimization with a linear constraint. Both ergodic and non-ergodic iterates are analyzed.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

The rise of transient faults in modern hardware requires system designers to consider errors occurring at runtime. Both hardware- and software-based error handling must be deployed to meet application reliability requirements. The level of…

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