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Identifying the causal structure of systems with multiple dynamic elements is critical to several scientific disciplines. The conventional approach is to conduct statistical tests of causality, for example with Granger Causality, between…

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Graphical models can represent a multivariate distribution in a convenient and accessible form as a graph. Causal models can be viewed as a special class of graphical models that not only represent the distribution of the observed system…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-29 Christina Heinze-Deml , Marloes H. Maathuis , Nicolai Meinshausen

Unsupervised learning on imbalanced data is challenging because, when given imbalanced data, current model is often dominated by the major category and ignores the categories with small amount of data. We develop a latent variable model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Fariba Yousefi , Zhenwen Dai , Carl Henrik Ek , Neil Lawrence

Multivariate Hawkes process provides a powerful framework for modeling temporal dependencies and event-driven interactions in complex systems. While existing methods primarily focus on uncovering causal structures among observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Songyao Jin , Biwei Huang

We propose a new method for Unsupervised clustering in particle physics named UCluster, where information in the embedding space created by a neural network is used to categorise collision events into different clusters that share similar…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-06-01 Vinicius Mikuni , Florencia Canelli

Predicting the subsequent event for an existing event context is an important but challenging task, as it requires understanding the underlying relationship between events. Previous methods propose to retrieve relational features from event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Li Du , Xiao Ding , Yue Zhang , Kai Xiong , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

Improving the understanding of signal and background distributions in signal-region is a valuable key to enhance any analysis in collider physics. This is usually a difficult task because -- among others -- signal and backgrounds are hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Ezequiel Alvarez , Manuel Szewc , Alejandro Szynkman , Santiago Tanco , Tatiana Tarutina

Most existing causal structure learning methods assume data collected from one environment and independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). In some cases, data are collected from different subjects from multiple environments, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Wei Chen , Yunjin Wu , Ruichu Cai , Yueguo Chen , Zhifeng Hao

As large language models (LLMs) gain popularity in conducting prediction tasks in-context, understanding the sources of uncertainty in in-context learning becomes essential to ensuring reliability. The recent hypothesis of in-context…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-08 I. Shavindra Jayasekera , Jacob Si , Filippo Valdettaro , Wenlong Chen , A. Aldo Faisal , Yingzhen Li

Anomaly detection with convolutional autoencoders is a popular method to search for new physics in a model-agnostic manner. These techniques are powerful, but they are still a "black box," since we do not know what high-level physical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Layne Bradshaw , Spencer Chang , Bryan Ostdiek

Staged trees are probabilistic graphical models capable of representing any class of non-symmetric independence via a coloring of its vertices. Several structural learning routines have been defined and implemented to learn staged trees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-29 Jack Storror Carter , Manuele Leonelli , Eva Riccomagno , Gherardo Varando

Modeling the complex interactions of systems of particles or agents is a fundamental scientific and mathematical problem that is studied in diverse fields, ranging from physics and biology, to economics and machine learning. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-09 Jason Miller , Sui Tang , Ming Zhong , Mauro Maggioni

We employ unsupervised machine learning techniques to learn latent parameters which best describe states of the two-dimensional Ising model and the three-dimensional XY model. These methods range from principal component analysis to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Sebastian Johann Wetzel

We introduce a method for learning the dynamics of complex nonlinear systems based on deep generative models over temporal segments of states and actions. Unlike dynamics models that operate over individual discrete timesteps, we learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Nikhil Mishra , Pieter Abbeel , Igor Mordatch

We present an implementation of an explainable and physics-aware machine learning model capable of inferring the underlying physics of high-energy particle collisions using the information encoded in the energy-momentum four-vectors of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Yue Shi Lai , Duff Neill , Mateusz Płoskoń , Felix Ringer

Dynamical systems are used to model a variety of phenomena in which the bifurcation structure is a fundamental characteristic. Here we propose a statistical machine-learning approach to derive lowdimensional models that automatically…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-11 Yohei Kondo , Kunihiko Kaneko , Shuji Ishihara

This work addresses on the following problem: given a set of unsynchronized history observations of two scenes that are correlative on their dynamic changes, the purpose is to learn a cross-scene predictor, so that with the observation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shaochi Hu , Donghao Xu , Huijing Zhao

Collaborative machine learning and related techniques such as federated learning allow multiple participants, each with his own training dataset, to build a joint model by training locally and periodically exchanging model updates. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Luca Melis , Congzheng Song , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Vitaly Shmatikov

The idea that data lies on a non-linear space has brought up the concept of manifold learning as a part of machine learning.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Arif Gursoy

We study a special case of the problem of statistical learning without the i.i.d. assumption. Specifically, we suppose a learning method is presented with a sequence of data points, and required to make a prediction (e.g., a classification)…

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