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We propose a novel Bayesian method to solve the maximization of a time-dependent expensive-to-evaluate oracle. We are interested in the decision that maximizes the oracle at a finite time horizon, when relatively few noisy evaluations can…
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We obtain two-sided bounds for the density of stochastic processes satisfying a weak H\"ormander condition. In particular we consider the cases when the support of the density is not the whole space and when the density has various…