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We study the performance of machine learning binary classification techniques in terms of error probabilities. The statistical test is based on the Data-Driven Decision Function (D3F), learned in the training phase, i.e., what is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Paolo Braca , Leonardo M. Millefiori , Augusto Aubry , Antonio De Maio , Peter Willett

We study the large deviation behavior of a system of diffusing particles with a mean field interaction, described through a collection of stochastic differential equations, in which each particle is driven by a vanishing independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Amarjit Budhiraja , Michael Conroy

We show that the stochastic Morris-Lecar neuron, in a neighborhood of its stable point, can be approximated by a two-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) modulation of a constant circular motion. The associated radial OU process is an…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Susanne Ditlevsen , Priscilla Greenwood

This book covers a wide range of problems involving the applications of stochastic processes, stochastic calculus, large deviation theory, group representation theory and quantum statistics to diverse fields in dynamical systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Harish Parthasarathy

Many physical and biological systems rely on the progression of material through multiple independent stages. In viral replication, for example, virions enter a cell to undergo a complex process comprising several disparate stages before…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-03 Alexander P Browning , Adrianne L Jenner , Ruth E Baker , Philip K Maini

Providing an analytical treatment to the stochastic feature of neurons' dynamics is one of the current biggest challenges in mathematical biology. The noisy leaky integrate-and-fire model and its associated Fokker-Planck equation are…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-14 Grégory Dumont , Jacques Henry , Carmen Oana Tarniceriu

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from \emph{overthinking}, a phenomenon in which redundant reasoning steps are generated after a correct solution has already been reached. Existing early reasoning exit methods primarily rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Kang Liu , Yongkang Liu , Xiaocui Yang , Peidong Wang , Wen Zhang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang , Daling Wang

Recently, Neural Ordinary Differential Equations has emerged as a powerful framework for modeling physical simulations without explicitly defining the ODEs governing the system, but instead learning them via machine learning. However, the…

Generalization theory has been established for sparse deep neural networks under high-dimensional regime. Beyond generalization, parameter estimation is also important since it is crucial for variable selection and interpretability of deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Dongya Wu , Xin Li

We study Langevin dynamics with stochastic diffusivity arising from fluctuations of the surrounding medium. The diffusivity is modeled as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process driven by symmetric dichotomous noise, which confines it to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dongho Lee , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Pascal Viot , Gleb Oshanin

Despite the huge number of neurons composing a brain network, ongoing activity of local cell assemblies composing cortical columns is intrinsically stochastic. Fluctuations in their instantaneous rate of spike firing $\nu(t)$ scale with the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-15 Gianni V. Vinci , Roberto Benzi , Maurizio Mattia

In various practical situations, we encounter data from stochastic processes which can be efficiently modelled by an appropriate parametric model for subsequent statistical analyses. Unfortunately, the most common estimation and inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-12 Rohan Hore , Abhik Ghosh

Noise in spiking neurons is commonly modeled by a noisy input current or by generating output spikes stochastically with a voltage-dependent hazard rate ("escape noise"). While input noise lends itself to modeling biophysical noise…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-16 Tilo Schwalger

Statistical properties of spike trains as well as other neurophysiological data suggest a number of mathematical models of neurons. These models range from entirely descriptive ones to those deduced from the properties of the real neurons.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-04 Petr Lansky , Laura Sacerdote , Cristina Zucca

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of randomly perturbed path-dependent stochastic differential equations with small parameter $\vartheta_{\varepsilon}$, when $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$, $\vartheta_\varepsilon$ goes to $0$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Liu Xiangdong , Hong Shaopeng

In this work, we study large deviation properties of the covariance process in fully connected Gaussian deep neural networks. More precisely, we establish a large deviation principle (LDP) for the covariance process in a functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Luisa Andreis , Federico Bassetti , Christian Hirsch

Mathematical models of biological neural networks are associated to a rich and complex class of stochastic processes. In this paper, we consider a simple {\em plastic} neural network whose {\em connectivity/synaptic strength} $(W(t))$…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Philippe Robert , Gaetan Vignoud

The paper concerns the $d$-dimensional stochastic approximation recursion, $$ \theta_{n+1}= \theta_n + \alpha_{n + 1} f(\theta_n, \Phi_{n+1}) $$ where $ \{ \Phi_n \}$ is a stochastic process on a general state space, satisfying a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Vivek Borkar , Shuhang Chen , Adithya Devraj , Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Sean Meyn

We discuss a method that employs a multilayer perceptron to detect deviations from a reference model in large multivariate datasets. Our data analysis strategy does not rely on any prior assumption on the nature of the deviation. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-24 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Gaia Grosso , Maurizio Pierini , Andrea Wulzer , Marco Zanetti

The paper proposes a formal estimation procedure for parameters of the fractional Poisson process (fPp). Such procedures are needed to make the fPp model usable in applied situations. The basic idea of fPp, motivated by experimental data…

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