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Subject of this letter is the dynamics of a chain obtained performing the continuous limit of a system of links and beads. In particular, the probability distribution of the relative position between two points of the chain averaged over a…

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The recent advent of powerful generative models has triggered the renewed development of quantitative measures to assess the proximity of two probability distributions. As the scalar Frechet inception distance remains popular, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Rodrigue Siry , Ryan Webster , Loic Simon , Julien Rabin

This paper is concerned with the problem of policy evaluation with linear function approximation in discounted infinite horizon Markov decision processes. We investigate the sample complexities required to guarantee a predefined estimation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-03 Gen Li , Weichen Wu , Yuejie Chi , Cong Ma , Alessandro Rinaldo , Yuting Wei

The problem of the insensitivity of the macroscopic behavior of any thermodynamical system to partitioning generates a bias between the reproducibility of its macroscopic behavior viewed as the simplest form of causality and its long-term…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva

Labeled Markov Chains (or LMCs for short) are useful mathematical objects to model complex probabilistic languages. A central challenge is to compare two LMCs, for example to assess the accuracy of an abstraction or to quantify the effect…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Adrien Banse , Alessandro Abate , Raphaël M. Jungers

Distances between quantum states are reviewed within the framework of the tomographic-probability representation. Tomographic approach is based on observed probabilities and is straightforward for data processing. Different states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 S. N. Filippov , V. I. Man'ko

Order statistics theory is applied in this paper to probabilistic robust control theory to compute the minimum sample size needed to come up with a reliable estimate of an uncertain quantity under continuity assumption of the related…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Xinjia Chen , Kemin Zhou

Finding an approximation of the inverse of the covariance matrix, also known as precision matrix, of a random vector with empirical data is widely discussed in finance and engineering. In data-driven problems, empirical data may be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Renjie Chen , Huifu Xu , Henryk Zähle

This article starts with the fundamental theory of stochastic type convergence and the significance of uniform integrability in the context of expectation value. A novel probabilistic sampling kantorovich (PSK-operators) is established with…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Digvijay Singh , Rahul Shukla , Karunesh Kumar Singh

A quantum ensemble $\{(p_x, \rho_x)\}$ is a set of quantum states each occurring randomly with a given probability. Quantum ensembles are necessary to describe situations with incomplete a priori information, such as the output of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-30 Ognyan Oreshkov , John Calsamiglia

When eliciting probability models from experts, knowledge engineers may compare the results of the model with expert judgment on test scenarios, then adjust model parameters to bring the behavior of the model more in line with the expert's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Kathryn Blackmond Laskey

This paper investigates the use of probabilistic neural networks (PNNs) to model aleatoric uncertainty, which refers to the inherent variability in the input-output relationships of a system, often characterized by unequal variance or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-22 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Jamal F. Husseini , Scott E. Stapleton

Total variation distance (TV distance) is a fundamental notion of distance between probability distributions. In this work, we introduce and study the problem of computing the TV distance of two product distributions over the domain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Sutanu Gayen , Kuldeep S. Meel , Dimitrios Myrisiotis , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran

To investigate the robustness of the output probabilities of a Bayesian network, a sensitivity analysis can be performed. A one-way sensitivity analysis establishes, for each of the probability parameters of a network, a function expressing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Uffe Kjærulff , Linda C. van der Gaag

Wasserstein 1 optimal transport maps provide a natural correspondence between points from two probability distributions, $\mu$ and $\nu$, which is useful in many applications. Available algorithms for computing these maps do not appear to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Tristan Milne , Étienne Bilocq , Adrian Nachman

We study the problem of designing mechanisms when agents' valuation functions are drawn from unknown and correlated prior distributions. In particular, we are given a prior distribution $\D$, and we are interested in designing a (truthful)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Anuran Makur , Marios Mertzanidis , Alexandros Psomas , Athina Terzoglou

We estimate the rate of convergence for the Kantorovich (or Wasserstein) distance between empirical measures of i.i.d. random variables associated with the Laguerre model of order $\alpha$ on $(0,\infty)^N$ and their common law, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Huaiqian Li , Bingyao Wu

Probabilistic programs are typically normal-looking programs describing posterior probability distributions. They intrinsically code up randomized algorithms and have long been at the heart of modern machine learning and approximate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lutz Klinkenberg , Tobias Winkler , Mingshuai Chen , Joost-Pieter Katoen

The methodology based on the random walk processes is adapted and applied to a comprehensive analysis of the statistical properties of the probability fluxes. To this aim we define a simple model of the Markovian stochastic dynamics on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Przemyslaw Chelminiak , Michal Kurzynski

Divergence functions are measures of distance or dissimilarity between probability distributions that serve various purposes in statistics and applications. We propose decompositions of Wasserstein and Cram\'er distances$-$which compare two…

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