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An analytical theory for the random close packing density, $\phi_\textrm{RCP}$, of polydisperse hard disks is provided using an equilibrium model of crowding [A. Zaccone, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028002 (2022)] which has been justified on the…

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The efficiency of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) can suffer when sampling a distribution with a wide range of length scales, because the small step sizes needed for stability in high-curvature regions are inefficient elsewhere. To address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-09 Chirag Modi , Alex Barnett , Bob Carpenter

We study approximations of the partition function of dense graphical models. Partition functions of graphical models play a fundamental role is statistical physics, in statistics and in machine learning. Two of the main methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Vishesh Jain , Frederic Koehler , Elchanan Mossel

We present the first feasible method for sampling a dynamic data stream with deletions, where the sample consists of pairs $(k,C_k)$ of a value $k$ and its exact total count $C_k$. Our algorithms are for both Strict Turnstile data streams…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Neta Barkay , Ely Porat , Bar Shalem

The Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm is the prototype for a class of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that propose transitions between states and then accept or reject the proposal. These methods generate a correlated sequence of random…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 Albert H. Mao , Rohit V. Pappu

We review the derivation of the Kac master equation model for random collisions of particles, its relationship to the Poisson process, and existing algorithms for simulating values from the marginal distribution of velocity for a single…

Computation · Statistics 2016-03-07 Jem Corcoran , Dale Jennings , Paul VaughanMiller

Hard spheres are a central and important model reference system for both homogeneous and inhomogeneous fluid systems. In this paper we present new high-precision molecular-dynamics computer simulations for a hard sphere fluid at a planar…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 R. L. Davidchack , B. B. Laird , R. Roth

Grid-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations have proven invaluable for the study of astrophysical accretion disks. However, the fact that angular momentum transport in disks is mediated by MHD turbulence (with structure down to very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kareem A. Sorathia , Christopher S. Reynolds , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

Inference for statistics of a stationary time series often involve nuisance parameters and sampling distributions that are difficult to estimate. In this paper, we propose the method of orthogonal samples, which can be used to address some…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-03 Suhasini Subba Rao

We investigate both analytically and by numerical simulation the kinetics of a microscopic model of hard rods adsorbing on a linear substrate, a model which is relevant for compaction of granular materials. The computer simulations use an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Talbot , G. Tarjus , P. Viot

We introduce a method to sample the orientational distribution function in computer simulations. The method is based on the exact torque balance equation for classical many-body systems of interacting anisotropic particles in equilibrium.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-12 Johannes Renner , Matthias Schmidt , Daniel de las Heras

We present the algorithm for generating strictly saturated random sequential adsorption packings built of rounded polygons. It can be used to study various properties of such packings built of a wide variety of different shapes and in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-23 Michał Cieśla , Piotr Kubala , Konrad Kozubek

Given a vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ induced by a turnstile stream $S$, a non-negative function $G: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$, a perfect $G$-sampler outputs an index $i$ with probability $\frac{G(x_i)}{\sum_{j\in[n]}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-11 David P. Woodruff , Shenghao Xie , Samson Zhou

In the context of state-space models, skeleton-based smoothing algorithms rely on a backward sampling step which by default has a $\mathcal O(N^2)$ complexity (where $N$ is the number of particles). Existing improvements in the literature…

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The problem of steady-state accretion to nonrotating black holes is examined. Advection is included and generalized formulas for the radiation pressure in both the optically thick and thin cases are used. Special attention is devoted to…

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With the aim of generalizing histogram statistics to higher dimensional cases, density estimation via discrepancy based sequential partition (DSP) has been proposed to learn an adaptive piecewise constant approximation defined on a binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-23 Zhengyang Lei , Lirong Qu , Sihong Shao , Yunfeng Xiong

Simulating from a gamma distribution with small shape parameter is a challenging problem. Towards an efficient method, we obtain a limiting distribution for a suitably normalized gamma distribution when the shape parameter tends to zero.…

Computation · Statistics 2015-04-08 Chuanhai Liu , Ryan Martin , Nick Syring

We present a model of one-dimensional irreversible adsorption in which particles once adsorbed immediately shrink to a smaller size or expand to a larger size. Exact solutions for the fill factor and the particle number variance as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Arsen V. Subashiev , Serge Luryi

For a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane and a value $r > 0$, the unit-disk range reporting problem is to construct a data structure so that given any query disk of radius $r$, all points of $P$ in the disk can be reported efficiently. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

Tensor completion exhibits an interesting computational-statistical gap in terms of the number of samples needed to perform tensor estimation. While there are only $\Theta(tn)$ degrees of freedom in a $t$-order tensor with $n^t$ entries,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Christina Lee Yu , Xumei Xi