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The last decade has witnessed a number of important and exciting developments that had been achieved for improving recurrence plot based data analysis and to widen its application potential. We will give a brief overview about important and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-09 Norbert Marwan , K. Hauke Kraemer

This survey addresses sampling discretization and its connections with other areas of mathematics. The survey concentrates on sampling discretization of norms of elements of finite-dimensional subspaces. We present here known results on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-11 B. Kashin , E. Kosov , I. Limonova , V. Temlyakov

Some concepts, such as non-compactness measure and condensing operators, defined on metric spaces are extended to uniform spaces. Such extensions allow us to locate, in the context of uniform spaces, some classical results existing in…

General Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Raúl Fierro

We describe algebraic certificates of positivity for functions belonging to a finitely generated algebra of Borel measurable functions, with particular emphasis to algebras generated by semi-algebraic functions. In which case the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Mihai Putinar

In this paper the authors seek to trace in an accessible fashion the rapid recent development of the theory of the matrix geometric mean in the cone of positive definite matrices up through the closely related operator geometric mean in the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Jimmie D. Lawson , Yongdo Lim

The richness of natural images makes the quest for optimal representations in image processing and computer vision challenging. The latter observation has not prevented the design of image representations, which trade off between efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Laurent Jacques , Laurent Duval , Caroline Chaux , Gabriel Peyré

We explore the asymptotic convergence and nonasymptotic maximal inequalities of supermartingales and backward submartingales in the space of positive semidefinite matrices. These are natural matrix analogs of scalar nonnegative…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Hongjian Wang , Aaditya Ramdas

Motivated by practical applications, I present a novel and comprehensive framework for operator-valued positive definite kernels. This framework is applied to both operator theory and stochastic processes. The first application focuses on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Saeed Hashemi Sababe

For theoretical approach of quantum measurements it is proposed a set of reconsidered conjectures. The proposed approach implies linear functional transformations for probability density and current but preserves the expressions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dumitru

The problem of decomposing a given covariance matrix as the sum of a positive semi-definite matrix of given rank and a positive semi-definite diagonal matrix, is considered. We present a projection-type algorithm to address this problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Valentina Ciccone , Augusto Ferrante , Mattia Zorzi

The present work provides an original framework for random matrix analysis based on revisiting the concentration of measure theory from a probabilistic point of view. By providing various notions of vector concentration ($q$-exponential,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Cosme Louart , Romain Couillet

We investigate compressibility of the dimension of positive semidefinite matrices while approximately preserving their pairwise inner products. This can either be regarded as compression of positive semidefinite factorizations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Cyril J. Stark , Aram W. Harrow

The kernel trick concept, formulated as an inner product in a feature space, facilitates powerful extensions to many well-known algorithms. While the kernel matrix involves inner products in the feature space, the sample covariance matrix…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-20 Tomer Lancewicki

An introduction to total positivity (TP), with the emphasis on efficient TP criteria and parametrizations of TP matrices. Intended for general mathematical audience.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Fomin , Andrei Zelevinsky

This text presents an unified approach of probability and statistics in the pursuit of understanding and computation of randomness in engineering or physical or social system with prediction with generalizability. Starting from elementary…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Lakshman Mahto

We study positive definite kernels pulled back along a finite family of self-maps under a subinvariance inequality for the associated branching operator. Iteration produces an increasing kernel tower with defect kernels. Under diagonal…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-03 James Tian

We introduce a framework for the reconstruction and representation of functions in a setting where these objects cannot be directly observed, but only indirect and noisy measurements are available, namely an inverse problem setting. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-15 Eardi Lila , Simon Arridge , John A. D. Aston

With view to applications in stochastic analysis and geometry, we introduce a new correspondence for positive definite kernels (p.d.) $K$ and their associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. With this we establish two kinds of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Palle Jorgensen , Feng Tian

Inverse problems and regularization theory is a central theme in contemporary signal processing, where the goal is to reconstruct an unknown signal from partial indirect, and possibly noisy, measurements of it. A now standard method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Samuel Vaiter , Gabriel Peyré , Jalal M. Fadili

We present a probabilistic viewpoint to multiple kernel learning unifying well-known regularised risk approaches and recent advances in approximate Bayesian inference relaxations. The framework proposes a general objective function suitable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-08 Hannes Nickisch , Matthias Seeger