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We consider the problem of simulating a Gaussian vector X, conditional on the fact that each component of X belongs to a finite interval [a_i,b_i], or a semi-finite interval [a_i,+infty). In the one-dimensional case, we design a table-based…

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Haptic-assisted virtual assembly and prototyping has seen significant attention over the past two decades. However, in spite of the appealing prospects, its adoption has been slower than expected. We identify the main roadblocks as the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Morad Behandish , Horea T. Ilies

Representing 3D scenes from multiview images is a core challenge in computer vision and graphics, which requires both precise rendering and accurate reconstruction. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has garnered significant attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 You Shen , Zhipeng Zhang , Xinyang Li , Yansong Qu , Yu Lin , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

This paper addresses distributed learning of a complex object for multiple networked robots based on distributed optimization and kernel-based support vector machine. In order to overcome a fundamental limitation of polynomial kernels…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Toshiyuki Oshima , Junya Yamauchi , Tatsuya Ibuki , Michio Seto , Takeshi Hatanaka

The gravitational potential is a key function involved in many astrophysical problems. Its evaluation inside continuous media from Newton's law is known to be challenging because of the diverging kernel 1/|r-r'|. This difficulty is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jean-Marc Huré

We provide faster algorithms for the problem of Gaussian summation, which occurs in many machine learning methods. We develop two new extensions - an O(Dp) Taylor expansion for the Gaussian kernel with rigorous error bounds and a new error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Dongryeol Lee , Alexander G. Gray

The convolution potential arises in a wide variety of application areas, and its efficient and accurate evaluation encounters three challenges: singularity, nonlocality and anisotropy. We introduce a fast algorithm based on a far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Xin Liu , Yong Zhang

Two-sided Gaussian bounds are established for the weighted heat kernels on the unit ball and simplex in $\mathbb{R}^d$ generated by classical differential operators whose eigenfunctions are algebraic polynomials.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Gerard Kerkyacharian , Pencho Petrushev , Yuan Xu

A discrete complexified quaternion Fourier transform is introduced. This is a generalization of the discrete quaternion Fourier transform to the case where either or both of the signal/image and the transform kernel are complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-03-19 Salem Said , Nicolas Le Bihan , Stephen J. Sangwine

Searching for a unified scene representation remains a research challenge in computer graphics. Traditional mesh-based representations are unsuitable for dense, fuzzy elements, and introduce additional complexity for filtering and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yang Zhou , Songyin Wu , Ling-Qi Yan

A method to reconstruct fields, source strengths and physical parameters based on Gaussian process regression is presented for the case where data are known to fulfill a given linear differential equation with localized sources. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-09-10 Christopher G. Albert

The velocity distributions of stellar tracers in general exhibit weak non-Gaussianity encoding information on the orbital composition of a galaxy and the underlying potential. The standard solution for measuring non-Gaussianity involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Jason L. Sanders , N. Wyn Evans

Many applications of Gaussian random fields and Gaussian random processes are limited by the computational complexity of evaluating the probability density function, which involves inverting the relevant covariance matrix. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Theodor Bjorkmo , M. C. David Marsh

We introduce a family of Hamiltonian systems for measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables. The Hamiltonians (i) are quadratic, and therefore two body, (ii) are of short range, (iii) are frustration-free, and (iv)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-01 Leandro Aolita , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acín

Calculations of the Fourier transform of a constant quantity over an area or volume defined by polygons (connected vertices) are often useful in modeling wave scattering, or in fourier-space filtering of real-space vector-based volumes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Brian B. Maranville

The 3D Gaussian splatting method has drawn a lot of attention, thanks to its high performance in training and high quality of the rendered image. However, it uses anisotropic Gaussian kernels to represent the scene. Although such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuanhao Gong , Lantao Yu , Guanghui Yue

In this paper, we show that efficient separated sum-of-exponentials approximations can be constructed for the heat kernel in any dimension. In one space dimension, the heat kernel admits an approximation involving a number of terms that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Shidong Jiang , Leslie Greengard , Shaobo Wang

We establish two-sided Gaussian bounds on the heat kernel of divergence-form parabolic equation with singular time-inhomogeneous vector field satisfying some minimal assumptions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Damir Kinzebulatov , Yuliy A. Semenov

This work studies the problem of estimating a two-dimensional superposition of point sources or spikes from samples of their convolution with a Gaussian kernel. Our results show that minimizing a continuous counterpart of the $\ell_1$ norm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Joseph McDonald , Brett Bernstein , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

We present a scalable Gaussian process model for identifying and characterizing smooth multidimensional changepoints, and automatically learning changes in expressive covariance structure. We use Random Kitchen Sink features to flexibly…