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We tackle covariance estimation in low-sample scenarios, employing a structured covariance matrix with shrinkage methods. These involve convexly combining a low-bias/high-variance empirical estimate with a biased regularization estimator,…

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The ability to retrieve semantically and directionally similar short-range trajectories with both accuracy and efficiency is foundational for downstream applications such as motion forecasting and autonomous navigation. However, prevailing…

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We propose a modification of the standard linear implicit Euler integrator for the weak approximation of parabolic semilinear stochastic PDEs driven by additive space-time white noise. The new method can easily be combined with a finite…

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Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

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In this work we are concerned with the study of the strong order of convergence in the averaging principle for slow-fast systems of stochastic evolution equations in Hilbert spaces with additive noise. In particular the stochastic…

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Semilinear stochastic evolution equations with multiplicative L\'evy noise and monotone nonlinear drift are considered. Unlike other similar work we do not impose coercivity conditions on coefficients. Existence and uniqueness of the mild…

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In this paper we present an estimator for the three-dimensional parameter $(\sigma, \alpha, H)$ of the linear fractional stable motion, where $H$ represents the self-similarity parameter, and $(\sigma, \alpha)$ are the scaling and stability…

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