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Optical quasar spectra can be used to trace variations of the fine-structure constant alpha. Controversial results that have been published in last years suggest that in addition to to wavelength calibration problems systematic errors might…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nils Prause , Dieter Reimers

The classification accuracy of electrocardiogram signal is often affected by diverse factors in which mislabeled training samples issue is one of the most influential problems. In order to mitigate this negative effect, the method of cross…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-12 Yaoguang Li , Wei Cui , Cong Wang

We present ground-based optical photometric monitoring data for NGC 5548, part of an extended multi-wavelength reverberation mapping campaign. The light curves have nearly daily cadence from 2014 January to July in nine filters (\emph{BVRI}…

The iterated posterior linearization filter (IPLF) is an algorithm for Bayesian state estimation that performs the measurement update using iterative statistical regression. The main result behind IPLF is that the posterior approximation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Matti Raitoharju , Lennart Svensson , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Robert Piché

Motivated by recent progress in the statistical modeling of quasar variability, we develop a new approach to measuring emission-line reverberation lags to estimate the size of broad-line regions (BLRs) in active galactic nuclei. Assuming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ying Zu , C. S. Kochanek , Bradley. M. Peterson

Numerous studies have reported two types of doubling of invariant closed curves (ICCs) in dynamical systems: (a) the creation of two disjoint ICCs such that iterations flip between them; and (b) the creation of a single ICC of double the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Sayanho Biswas , Soumitro Banerjee , Viktor Avrutin , Iryna Sushko

In this paper we investigate the impact of transient noise artifacts, or {\it glitches}, on gravitational-wave inference from ground-based interferometer data, and test how modeling and subtracting these glitches affects the inferred…

Efficiently and meaningfully estimating prediction uncertainty is important for exploration in active learning campaigns in materials discovery, where samples with high uncertainty are interpreted as containing information missing from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Ashley S. Dale , Kangming Li , Brian DeCost , Hao Wan , Yuchen Han , Yao Fehlis , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Long duration noisy-looking waveforms such as those obtained in randomly multiply scattering and reverberant media are complex; they resist direct interpretation. Nevertheless, such waveforms are sensitive to small changes in the source of…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Richard L Weaver , Céline Hadziioannou , Eric Larose , Michel Campillo

Uncertainty quantification is a critical missing component in radio interferometric imaging that will only become increasingly important as the big-data era of radio interferometry emerges. Statistical sampling approaches to perform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiaohao Cai , Marcelo Pereyra , Jason D. McEwen

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is a vital step in using mathematical models and simulations to take decisions. The field of cardiac simulation has begun to explore and adopt UQ methods to characterise uncertainty in model inputs and how…

We study the Internal Linear Combination (ILC) method presented by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team, with the goal of determining whether it may be used for cosmological purposes, as a template-free alternative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 H. K. Eriksen , A. J. Banday , K. M. Gorski , P. B. Lilje

This paper proposes a novel framework for implicit multi-camera system calibration utilizing Gaussian Process (GP) regression. Conventional explicit calibration methods are constrained by rigid mathematical models and struggle with complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ivan De Boi , Bart Ribbens , Veronika Golanova , Ursula Kapov , Simon Verspeek

Existing graph contrastive learning methods rely on augmentation techniques based on random perturbations (e.g., randomly adding or dropping edges and nodes). Nevertheless, altering certain edges or nodes can unexpectedly change the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Huidong Liang , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Ke Chen , Junbin Gao

Recent advances in deep learning have shown that uncertainty estimation is becoming increasingly important in applications such as medical imaging, natural language processing, and autonomous systems. However, accurately quantifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Jae Myung Kim , Cordelia Schmidt , Bernhard Schölkopf , Zeynep Akata

We introduce a novel direct calibration algorithm to address phase delay, gain, and offset mismatches in Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) time interleaving systems. These mismatches, common in high-speed data acquisition, degrade system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi-kwan Chan , Hina Suzuki , David Forbes , Andrew Thomas West , Arash Roshanineshat , Daniel P. Marrone , Amy Lowitz

Gravitational-wave backgrounds are expected to arise from the superposition of gravitational wave signals from a large number of unresolved sources and also from the stochastic processes that occurred in the Early universe. So far, we have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Junaid Yousuf , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Manzoor A Malik

Evaluation metrics for prediction error, model selection and model averaging on space-time data are understudied and poorly understood. The absence of independent replication makes prediction ambiguous as a concept and renders evaluation…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-08 Gregory L. Watson , Colleen E. Reid , Michael Jerrett , Donatello Telesca

Convergent Cross-Mapping (CCM) has shown high potential to perform causal inference in the absence of models. We assess the strengths and weaknesses of the method by varying coupling strength and noise levels in coupled logistic maps. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-19 Dan Mønster , Riccardo Fusaroli , Kristian Tylén , Andreas Roepstorff , Jacob F. Sherson

Owing to the advent of large area photometric surveys, the possibility to use broad band photometric data, instead of spectra, to measure the size of the broad line region of active galactic nuclei, has raised a large interest. We describe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-11 D. Sluse , M. Tewes