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We show that the two-stage minimum description length (MDL) criterion widely used to estimate linear change-point (CP) models corresponds to the marginal likelihood of a Bayesian model with a specific class of prior distributions. This…

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Flow Matching, a promising approach in generative modeling, has recently gained popularity. Relying on ordinary differential equations, it offers a simple and flexible alternative to diffusion models, which are currently the…

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In this paper a multi-scale version of the Sherrington and Kirkpatrick model is introduced and studied. The pressure per particle in the thermodynamical limit is proved to obey a variational principle of Parisi type. The result is achieved…

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Current astrophysical models of the interstellar medium assume that small scale variation and noise can be modelled as Gaussian random fields or simple transformations thereof, such as lognormal. We use topological methods to investigate…

Applications · Statistics 2017-03-22 Robin Henderson , Irina Makarenko , Paul Bushby , Andrew Fletcher , Anvar Shukurov

Deterministic mathematical models, such as those specified via differential equations, are a powerful tool to communicate scientific insight. However, such models are necessarily simplified descriptions of the real world. Generalised…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-24 Zheyang Shen , Jeremias Knoblauch , Sam Power , Chris. J. Oates

In this paper we consider the problem of parameter estimation in the $p$-spin Curie-Weiss model, for $p \geq 3$. We provide a complete description of the limiting properties of the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates of the inverse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Somabha Mukherjee , Jaesung Son , Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) provides asymptotically consistent estimates of intractable posterior expectations as the number of iterations tends to infinity. However, in large data applications, MCMC can be computationally expensive per…

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We conduct non-asymptotic analysis on the mean-field variational inference for approximating posterior distributions in complex Bayesian models that may involve latent variables. We show that the mean-field approximation to the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Wei Han , Yun Yang

We introduce perturbation and coupled-cluster theories based on a cluster mean-field reference for describing the ground state of strongly-correlated spin systems. In cluster mean-field, the ground state wavefunction is written as a simple…

We investigate the p-spin model with Gaussian-distributed random interactions in the microcanonical ensemble using the replica theory. For p=2, there are only second-order phase transitions and we recover the results of Sherrington and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-08 Zsolt Bertalan , Hidethoshi Nishimori

Exactly solvable many-body systems are few and far between, and the utility of approximate methods cannot be overestimated. Entanglement mean field theory is an approximate method to handle such systems. While mean field theories reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We propose a definition of microcanonical and canonical statistical ensembles based on the concept of density of states. This definition applies both to the classical and the quantum case. For the microcanonical case this allows for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Vadim Kostrykin , Robert Schrader

Given an arbitrary finite dimensional Hamiltonian H_0, we consider the model H=H_0+\Delta H, where \Delta H is a generic fully connected interaction. By using the strong law of large numbers we easily prove that, for all such models, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-19 M. Ostilli

We investigate the low-dimensional structure of deterministic transformations between random variables, i.e., transport maps between probability measures. In the context of statistics and machine learning, these transformations can be used…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-18 Alessio Spantini , Daniele Bigoni , Youssef Marzouk

The Wasserstein distance between mixing measures has come to occupy a central place in the statistical analysis of mixture models. This work proposes a new canonical interpretation of this distance and provides tools to perform inference on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Xin Bing , Florentina Bunea , Jonathan Niles-Weed

In this work we show how nonlinear point-coupling models, described by a Lagrangian density that presents only terms up to fourth order in the fermion condensate $(\bar{\psi}\psi)$, are derived from a modified meson-exchange nonlinear…

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By formulating the renormalization group as a quantum channel acting on density matrices in Quantum Field Theories (QFTs), we show that ground-state expectation values of observables supported on slow momentum modes can be approximated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Matheus H. Martins Costa , Flavio S. Nogueira , Jeroen van den Brink

A new method is proposed for a treatment of ideal quantum gases in the microcanonical ensemble near the thermodynamic limit. The method allows rigorous asymptotic calculations of the average number of particles and particle number…

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We present a novel approximation scheme for the treatment of strongly correlated electrons in arbitrary crystal lattices. The approach extends the well-known dynamical mean field theory to include nonlocal two-site correlations of arbitrary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-16 Torben Jabben , Norbert Grewe , Sebastian Schmitt

Bayesian calibration of black-box computer models offers an established framework to obtain a posterior distribution over model parameters. Traditional Bayesian calibration involves the emulation of the computer model and an additive model…

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