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Consider the Gaussian sequence model under the additional assumption that a fixed fraction of the means is known. We study the problem of variance estimation from a frequentist Bayesian perspective. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Gianluca Finocchio , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Mode separation, namely how sharply a distribution fragments into barrier-separated clusters, is a fundamental geometric property of densities, difficult to quantify in high dimensions. It is structurally distinct from dispersion, yet…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Shaul Tolkovsky , Ori Meidler , Or Zuk

We revisit the mixing mechanism for pesudscalar mesons and glueball which is introduced by the axial vector anomaly. We demonstrate that the physical mass of the pseudoscalar glueball does not favor to be lower than 1.8 GeV if all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Wen Qin , Qiang Zhao , Xian-Hui Zhong

We have recently shown that multi-field axion N-flation can lead to observable non-gaussianity in much of its parameter range, with the assisted inflation mechanism ensuring that the density perturbations are sufficiently close to scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Soo A Kim , Andrew R Liddle , David Seery

We introduce hierarchical mixtures of Gaussians (HMoGs), which unify dimensionality reduction and clustering into a single probabilistic model. HMoGs provide closed-form expressions for the model likelihood, exact inference over latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sacha Sokoloski , Philipp Berens

We study the problem of list-decodable Gaussian mean estimation and the related problem of learning mixtures of separated spherical Gaussians. We develop a set of techniques that yield new efficient algorithms with significantly improved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

A well-known theorem of S. Smirnov states that the Hausdorff dimension of a $k$-quasicircle is at most $1+k^2$. Here, we show that the precise upper bound $D(k) = 1+\Sigma^2 k^2 + \mathcal O(k^{8/3-\varepsilon})$ where $\Sigma^2$ is the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Oleg Ivrii

We present an optimal mass transport framework on the space of Gaussian mixture models, which are widely used in statistical inference. Our method leads to a natural way to compare, interpolate and average Gaussian mixture models.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

We numerically investigate the vibrational spectra of single-component clusters in two-dimensions. Stable configurations of clusters at local energy minima are obtained, and for each the hessian matrix is evaluated and diagonalized to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Gurpreet S. Matharoo

In this paper, we consider single- and multi-user Gaussian channels with feedback under expected power constraints and with non-vanishing error probabilities. In the first of two contributions, we study asymptotic expansions for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Lan V. Truong , Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this paper, we compare two variances of maxima of $N$ standard Gaussian random variables. One is a sequence of $N$ i.i.d. standard Gaussians, and the other one is $N$ standard Gaussians with covariances $\sigma_{1,2}=\rho \in(0,1)$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Chien-Hao Huang

A generalization of the classic Gaussian random variable to the family of Multi- Gaussian (MG) random variables characterized by shape parameter M > 0, in addition to the mean and the standard deviation, is introduced. The probability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Olga Korotkova

We consider the problem of dynamic optimal transport with a density constraint. We derive variational limits in terms of $\Gamma$-convergence for two singular phenomena. First, for densities constrained near a hyperplane we recover the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer

In this paper, we consider the discrete membrane model in four dimensions. We confirm the existence of the scaling limit of the intermediate (i.e., a multiple of the expected maximum) level-sets of the model, and show that it is equal in…

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We derive uniform convergence rates for the maximum likelihood estimator and minimax lower bounds for parameter estimation in two-component location-scale Gaussian mixture models with unequal variances. We assume the mixing proportions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Tudor Manole , Nhat Ho

This paper proves Burgess bounds for short mixed character sums in multi-dimensional settings. The mixed character sums we consider involve both an exponential evaluated at a real-valued multivariate polynomial, and a product of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-19 L. B. Pierce

In this paper we generalize the main result of [13] in two different situations: in the first case for MOTSs of genus greater than one and, in the second case, for MOTSs of high dimension with negative $\sigma$-constant. In both cases we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Abraão Mendes

Let $\eta=(\eta(t))_{t\in T}$ be a sample continuous max-infinitely random field on a locally compact metric space $T$. For a closed subset $S\in T$, we note $\eta_{S}$ the restriction of $\eta$ to $S$. We consider $\beta(S_1,S_2)$ the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-24 Clément Dombry , Frédéric Eyi-Minko

Through refined asymptotic analysis based on the normal approximation, we study how higher-order coding performance depends on the mean power as well as on finer statistics of the input power. We introduce a multifaceted power model in…

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