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In this work, a 2D contour generation algorithm is proposed for irregular regions. The contour of the physical domain is approximated by mesh segments using the known coordinates of the contour. For this purpose, the algorithm uses a…

In this work, we describe a Bayesian framework for reconstructing the boundaries of piecewise smooth regions in the X-ray computed tomography (CT) problem in an infinite-dimensional setting. In addition to the reconstruction, we are also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Yiqiu Dong , Per Christian Hansen

Existing uncertainty modeling approaches try to detect an out-of-distribution point from the in-distribution dataset. We extend this argument to detect finer-grained uncertainty that distinguishes between (a). certain points, (b). uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Rahul Soni , Naresh Shah , Jimmy D. Moore

Uncertainty quantification in travel time estimation (TTE) aims to estimate the confidence interval for travel time, given the origin (O), destination (D), and departure time (T). Accurately quantifying this uncertainty requires generating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaowei Mao , Yan Lin , Shengnan Guo , Yubin Chen , Xingyu Xian , Haomin Wen , Qisen Xu , Youfang Lin , Huaiyu Wan

The curvelet transform is a special type of wavelet transform, which is useful for estimating the locations and orientations of waves propagating in Euclidean space. We prove an uncertainty principle that lower-bounds the variance of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Yi-Kai Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of finding the Euclidean distance to a convex cone generated by a set of discrete points in $\mathbb{R}^n_+$. In particular, we are interested in problems where the discrete points are the set of feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Ali Fattahi , Sriram Dasu , Reza Ahmadi

This paper presents the reachability analysis of curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with a prescribed curvature bound. Based on Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we leverage the existing knowledge on the structure of solutions to minimum-time problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Juho Bae , Ji Hoon Bai , Byung-Yoon Lee , Jun-Yong Lee , Chang-Hun Lee

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

We study geometric variations of the discriminating code problem. In the \emph{discrete version} of the problem, a finite set of points $P$ and a finite set of objects $S$ are given in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The objective is to choose a subset…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Sanjana Dey , Florent Foucaud , Subhas C Nandy , Arunabha Sen

Existing methods for estimating uncertainty in deep learning tend to require multiple forward passes, making them unsuitable for applications where computational resources are limited. To solve this, we perform probabilistic reasoning over…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-08 Javier Antorán , James Urquhart Allingham , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Accurately modeling and verifying the correct operation of systems interacting in dynamic environments is challenging. By leveraging parametric uncertainty within the model description, one can relax the requirement to describe exactly the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Patrick Holmes , Shreyas Kousik , Shankar Mohan , Ram Vasudevan

We propose a geometric method for quantifying the difference between parametrized curves in Euclidean space by introducing a distance function on the space of parametrized curves up to rigid transformations (rotations and translations).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Jaap Eldering , Joris Vankerschaver

The reach of a submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^N$ is defined as the largest radius of a tubular neighbourhood around the submanifold that avoids self-intersections. While essential in geometric and topological applications, computing the reach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Daniel Platt , Raúl Sánchez Galán

In this thesis I propose an algorithm to heuristically calculate different distance measures on uncertain graphs (i.e. graphs where edges only exist with a certain probability) and apply this to the heuristic calculation of harmonic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Daniel Ketels

We propose a method to outer bound forward reachable sets on finite horizons for uncertain nonlinear systems with polynomial dynamics. This method makes use of time-dependent polynomial storage functions that satisfy appropriate dissipation…

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We study the problem of distinguishing between two symmetric probability distributions over $n$ bits by observing $k$ bits of a sample, subject to the constraint that all $k-1$-wise marginal distributions of the two distributions are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Christopher Williamson

The radius of robust feasibility provides a numerical value for the largest possible uncertainty set that guarantees robust feasibility of an uncertain linear conic program. This determines when the robust feasible set is non-empty.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Miguel A. Goberna , Vaithilingam Jeyakumar , Guoyin Li

We develop a transfer matrix formalism to visualize the framing of discrete piecewise linear curves in three dimensional space. Our approach is based on the concept of an intrinsically discrete curve, which enables us to more effectively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-27 Shuangwei Hu , Martin Lundgren , Antti J. Niemi

Uncertainty quantification is a primary challenge for reliable modeling and simulation of complex stochastic dynamics. Such problems are typically plagued with incomplete information that may enter as uncertainty in the model parameters, or…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-15 Paul Dupuis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Yannis Pantazis , Petr Plechac

The (combinatorial) diameter of a polytope $P \subseteq \mathbb R^d$ is the maximum value of a shortest path between a pair of vertices on the 1-skeleton of $P$, that is the graph where the nodes are given by the $0$-dimensional faces of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Laura Sanità