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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Giulia di Nunno , Andrea Fiacco , Erik Hove Karlsen

This paper provides analytical performance of the low-complexity family of affine projection algorithms on the estimation of multipath Rayleigh fading channels in the presence of carrier frequency offsets (CFO) and random channel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Sayed A. Hadei , Paeiz Azmi

We recall four open problems concerning constructing high-order matrix-exponential approximations for the infimum of a spectrally negative Levy process (with applications to first-passage/ruin probabilities, the waiting time distribution in…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Florin Avram , Andras Horvath , M. R. Pistorius

Often the analysis of time-dependent chemical and biophysical systems produces high-dimensional time-series data for which it can be difficult to interpret which individual features are most salient. While recent work from our group and…

The variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a deep latent variable model that has two neural networks in an autoencoder-like architecture; one of them parameterizes the model's likelihood. Fitting its parameters via maximum likelihood (ML) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Michalis K. Titsias , Taylan Cemgil , Arnaud Doucet

We propose a variational Bayesian (VB) procedure for high-dimensional linear model inferences with heavy tail shrinkage priors, such as student-t prior. Theoretically, we establish the consistency of the proposed VB method and prove that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Jincheng Bai , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

The sub-fractional Brownian motion (sfBm) is a stochastic process, characterized by non-stationarity in their increments and long-range dependency, considered as an intermediate step between the standard Brownian motion (Bm) and the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-04-09 Axel A. Araneda , Nils Bertschinger

Estimation of autocorrelations and spectral densities is of fundamental importance in many fields of science, from identifying pulsar signals in astronomy to measuring heart beats in medicine. In circumstances where one is interested in…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-01-22 C. H. Fleming , J. M. Calabrese

The (extensional) theory of arrays is widely used to model systems. Hence, efficient decision procedures are needed to model check such systems. Current decision procedures for the theory of arrays saturate the read-over-write and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Jürgen Christ , Jochen Hoenicke

We consider the Galerkin boundary element method (BEM) for weakly-singular integral equations of the first-kind in 2D. We analyze some residual-type a posteriori error estimator which provides a lower as well as an upper bound for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Michael Feischl , Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius

This paper proposes a variational Bayesian (VB) detector for affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) systems. The proposed method estimates the symbol probability distribution by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Can Zheng , Chung G. Kang

This paper studies prediction with multiple candidate models, where the goal is to combine their outputs. This task is especially challenging in heterogeneous settings, where different models may be better suited to different inputs. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Yuli Slavutsky , Sebastian Salazar , David M. Blei

Variational inference (VI) combined with data subsampling enables approximate posterior inference over large data sets, but suffers from poor local optima. We first formulate a deterministic annealing approach for the generic class of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-31 Stephan Mandt , James McInerney , Farhan Abrol , Rajesh Ranganath , David Blei

We provide a quick overview of the class of $\alpha$-weakly-quasi-convex problems and its relationships with other problem classes. We show that the previously known Sequential Subspace Optimization method retains its optimal convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Sergey Guminov , Alexander Gasnikov , Ilya Kuruzov

Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing (AFDM), which is based on discrete affine Fourier transform (DAFT), has recently been proposed for reliable communication in high-mobility scenarios. Two low complexity detectors for AFDM are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Marios Kountouris

The paper builds a Variance-Gamma (VG) model with five parameters: location ($\mu$), symmetry ($\delta$), volatility ($\sigma$), shape ($\alpha$), and scale ($\theta$); and studies its application to the pricing of European options. The…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-18 A. H. Nzokem

Frequency information (e.g., Discrete Wavelet Transform and Fast Fourier Transform) has been widely applied to solve the issue of Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE). However, existing frequency-based models primarily operate in the simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Junhao Tan , Songwen Pei , Wei Qin , Bo Fu , Ximing Li , Libo Huang

We propose a variational autoencoder (VAE) approach for parameter estimation in nonlinear mixed-effects models based on ordinary differential equations (NLME-ODEs) using longitudinal data from multiple subjects. In moderate dimensions,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-11 Zhe Li , Mélanie Prague , Rodolphe Thiébaut , Quentin Clairon

Mixtures of linear mixed models (MLMMs) are useful for clustering grouped data and can be estimated by likelihood maximization through the EM algorithm. The conventional approach to determining a suitable number of components is to compare…

Applications · Statistics 2014-05-26 Siew Li Tan , David J. Nott

Computationally expensive, high-accuracy detector simulations are a major bottleneck for many particle physics experiments such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as well as those planned for future colliders. This challenge has…

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