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The increased sensitivity of future radio telescopes will result in requirements for higher dynamic range within the image as well as better resolution and immunity to interference. In this paper we propose a new matrix formulation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chen Ben-David , Amir Leshem

We introduce the Binless Multidimensional Thermodynamic Integration (BMTI) method for nonparametric, robust, and data-efficient density estimation. BMTI estimates the logarithm of the density by initially computing log-density differences…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Matteo Carli , Alex Rodriguez , Alessandro Laio , Aldo Glielmo

This paper introduces an intuitive and easy-to-implement nonparametric density estimator based on local polynomial techniques. The estimator is fully boundary adaptive and automatic, but does not require pre-binning or any other…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-06-11 Matias D. Cattaneo , Michael Jansson , Xinwei Ma

In recent years, diffusion models, and more generally score-based deep generative models, have achieved remarkable success in various applications, including image and audio generation. In this paper, we view diffusion models as an implicit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Hyeok Kyu Kwon , Dongha Kim , Ilsang Ohn , Minwoo Chae

Recently developed reduced-order modeling techniques aim to approximate nonlinear dynamical systems on low-dimensional manifolds learned from data. This is an effective approach for modeling dynamics in a post-transient regime where the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Samuel E. Otto , Gregory R. Macchio , Clarence W. Rowley

We present a direct approach to nonparametrically reconstruct the linear density field from an observed nonlinear map. We solve for the unique displacement potential consistent with the nonlinear density and positive definite coordinate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-25 Hong-Ming Zhu , Yu Yu , Ue-Li Pen , Xuelei Chen , Hao-Ran Yu

We investigate density estimation from a $n$-sample in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^D$, when the data is supported by an unknown submanifold $M$ of possibly unknown dimension $d < D$ under a reach condition. We study nonparametric kernel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Clément Berenfeld , Marc Hoffmann

In this paper we introduce a method for nonparametric density estimation on geometric networks. We define fused density estimators as solutions to a total variation regularized maximum-likelihood density estimation problem. We provide…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-06 Robert Bassett , James Sharpnack

This paper proposes a depth estimation method using radar-image fusion by addressing the uncertain vertical directions of sparse radar measurements. In prior radar-image fusion work, image features are merged with the uncertain sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Masaya Kotani , Takeru Oba , Norimichi Ukita

Radiography is often used to probe complex, evolving density fields in dynamic systems and in so doing gain insight into the underlying physics. This technique has been used in numerous fields including materials science, shock physics,…

In this paper, we deal with the problem of reconstruction from Radon random samples in local shift-invariant signal space. Different from sampling after Radon transform, we consider sampling before Radon transform, where the sample set is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Zhanpeng Deng , Jiao Li , Jun Xian

We tackle the problem of high-dimensional nonparametric density estimation by taking the class of log-concave densities on $\mathbb{R}^p$ and incorporating within it symmetry assumptions, which facilitate scalable estimation algorithms and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Min Xu , Richard J. Samworth

Probabilistic Regression refers to predicting a full probability density function for the target conditional on the features. We present a nonparametric approach to this problem which combines base classifiers (typically gradient boosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Brian Lucena

Divergence estimators based on direct approximation of density-ratios without going through separate approximation of numerator and denominator densities have been successfully applied to machine learning tasks that involve distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-24 Makoto Yamada , Taiji Suzuki , Takafumi Kanamori , Hirotaka Hachiya , Masashi Sugiyama

Advancements in modern science have led to the increasing availability of non-Euclidean data in metric spaces. This paper addresses the challenge of modeling relationships between non-Euclidean responses and multivariate Euclidean…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Su I Iao , Yidong Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

Research on manifold learning within a density ridge estimation framework has shown great potential in recent work for both estimation and de-noising of manifolds, building on the intuitive and well-defined notion of principal curves and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-11 Jonas Nordhaug Myhre , Matineh Shaker , Devrim Kaba , Robert Jenssen , Deniz Erdogmus

We propose a precise and efficient normal estimation method that can deal with noise and nonuniform density for unstructured 3D point clouds. Unlike existing approaches that directly take patches and ignore the local neighborhood…

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Many recent efforts have been devoted to designing sophisticated deep learning structures, obtaining revolutionary results on benchmark datasets. The success of these deep learning methods mostly relies on an enormous volume of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro

Given dense image feature correspondences of a non-rigidly moving object across multiple frames, this paper proposes an algorithm to estimate its 3D shape for each frame. To solve this problem accurately, the recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Suryansh Kumar

Kernel density estimation is a key component of a wide variety of algorithms in machine learning, Bayesian inference, stochastic dynamics and signal processing. However, the unsupervised density estimation technique requires tuning a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sunia Tanweer , Firas A. Khasawneh