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Finding the ground state of Ising spin glasses is notoriously difficult due to disorder and frustration. Often, this challenge is framed as a combinatorial optimization problem, for which a common strategy employs simulated annealing, a…

Averaging amplitudes over consecutive time samples within a time-window is widely used to calculate the amplitude of an event-related potential (ERP) for cognitive neuroscience. Objective determination of the time-window is critical for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-22 Reza Mahini , Peng Xu , Guoliang Chen , Yansong Li , Weiyan Ding , Lei Zhang , Nauman Khalid Qureshi , Asoke K. Nandi , Fengyu Cong

Finite-size fluctuations in coevolutionary dynamics arise in models of biological as well as of social and economic systems. This brief tutorial review surveys a systematic approach starting from a stochastic process discrete both in time…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-15 Jens Christian Claussen

Clustering, or grouping, dataset elements based on similarity can be used not only to classify a dataset into a few categories, but also to approximate it by a relatively large number of representative elements. In the latter scenario,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Tim Jaschek , Marko Bucyk , Jaspreet S. Oberoi

We formulate and analyse an optimal control problem for the coagulation-fragmentation equation, where a scalar, time-dependent control modulates the coagulation rate by multiplying the coagulation kernel. The objective functional consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Enrico Sartor

Predictive distributions need to be aggregated when probabilistic forecasts are merged, or when expert opinions expressed in terms of probability distributions are fused. We take a prediction space approach that applies to discrete, mixed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Tilmann Gneiting , Roopesh Ranjan

Research on cluster analysis for categorical data continues to develop, with new clustering algorithms being proposed. However, in this context, the determination of the number of clusters is rarely addressed. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-29 Cláudia Silvestre , Margarida G. M. S. Cardoso , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Mixture models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used in machine learning to represent complex data distributions. A key challenge, especially in high-dimensional settings, is to determine the mixture order and estimate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Srećko Đurašinović , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron

In a Newtonian system with localized interactions the whole set of particles is naturally decomposed into dynamical clusters, defined as finite groups of particles having an influence on each other's trajectory during a given interval of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Robert I. A. Patterson , Sergio Simonella , Wolfgang Wagner

The new approach outlined in Paper I (Spurzem \& Giersz 1996) to follow the individual formation and evolution of binaries in an evolving, equal point-mass star cluster is extended for the self-consistent treatment of relaxation and close…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Giersz , R. Spurzem

Galaxy surveys provide finite catalogs of objects observed within bounded volumes, yet clustering statistics are often interpreted using theoretical frameworks developed for infinite point processes. In this work, we formulate key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Satoshi Kuriki , Keisuke Yano

We consider chance-constrained binary knapsack problems, where the weights of items are independent random variables with the means and standard deviations known. The chance constraint can be reformulated as a second-order cone constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Jaehyeon Ryu , Sungsoo Park

This paper proposes an early detection method for cluster structural changes. Cluster structure refers to discrete structural characteristics, such as the number of clusters, when data are represented using finite mixture models, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-28 Kento Urano , Ryo Yuki , Kenji Yamanishi

The theme of this article is the sampling of cluster and iterated cluster point processes. It is partially a review, mainly of the Brix-Kendall exact sampling method for cluster point processes and its adaptation by M{\o}ller and Rasmussen…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Pierre Brémaud

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

The one-dimensional contact process is analyzed by a cluster approximation. In this approach, the hierarchy of rate equations for the densities of finite length empty intervals are truncated under the assumption that adjacent intervals are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

A cluster expansion is proposed, that applies to both continuous and discrete systems. The assumption for its convergence involves an extension of the neat Kotecky-Preiss criterion. Expressions and estimates for correlation functions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Ueltschi

Partially recorded data are frequently encountered in many applications and usually clustered by first removing incomplete cases or features with missing values, or by imputing missing values, followed by application of a clustering…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-20 Emily M. Goren , Ranjan Maitra

We present a novel approach to spin-adapted coupled cluster theory. This approach is based on the entanglement of an open-shell molecule with electrons in a non-interacting bath; together they form a closed-shell state. For the total…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Sarai Dery Folkestad , Bendik Støa Sannes , Henrik Koch

Starting from configurations having homogeneous spatial density, we study kinetics in a two-dimensional system of inelastically colliding hard particles, a popular model for cooling granular matter. Following an initial time period, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-10 Subir K. Das , Subhajit Paul