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This article is an extended version of previous work of the authors [40, 41] on low-rank matrix estimation in the presence of constraints on the factors into which the matrix is factorized. Low-rank matrix factorization is one of the basic…

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The use of fractional differential equations is a key tool in modeling non-local phenomena. Often, an efficient scheme for solving a linear system involving the discretization of a fractional operator is evaluating the matrix function $x =…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Angelo A. Casulli , Leonardo Robol

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods asymptotically sample from complex probability distributions. The pseudo-marginal MCMC framework only requires an unbiased estimator of the unnormalized probability distribution function to construct…

Computation · Statistics 2016-05-25 Iain Murray , Matthew M. Graham

We consider the problem of learning low-dimensional representations for large-scale Markov chains. We formulate the task of representation learning as that of mapping the state space of the model to a low-dimensional state space, called the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Mahsa Ghasemi , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo , Ufuk Topcu

This paper studies a tensor-structured linear regression model with a scalar response variable and tensor-structured predictors, such that the regression parameters form a tensor of order $d$ (i.e., a $d$-fold multiway array) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Talal Ahmed , Haroon Raja , Waheed U. Bajwa

We propose a new approach for estimating the finite dimensional transition matrix of a Markov chain using a large number of independent sample paths observed at random times. The sample paths may be observed as few as two times, and the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-20 Daphne Aurouet , Valentin Patilea

We consider the convergence of a continuous-time Markov chain approximation X^h, h>0, to an R^d-valued Levy process X. The state space of X^h is an equidistant lattice and its Q-matrix is chosen to approximate the generator of X. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Aleksandar Mijatović , Matija Vidmar , Saul Jacka

This paper presents a technique for reduced-order Markov modeling for compact representation of time-series data. In this work, symbolic dynamics-based tools have been used to infer an approximate generative Markov model. The time-series…

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We introduce tensor numerical techniques for solving optimal control problems constrained by elliptic operators in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, with variable coefficients, which can be represented in a low rank separable form. We construct a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Boris N. Khoromskij , Britta Schmitt , Volker Schulz

Several Krylov-type procedures are introduced that generalize matrix Krylov methods for tensor computations. They are denoted minimal Krylov recursion, maximal Krylov recursion, contracted tensor product Krylov recursion. It is proved that…

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We propose a new Bayesian Markov switching regression model for multidimensional arrays (tensors) of binary time series. We assume a zero-inflated logit regression with time-varying parameters and apply it to multilayer temporal networks.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-05 Monica Billio , Roberto Casarin , Matteo Iacopini

In this paper we consider the problem of computing the stationary distribution of nearly completely decomposable Markov processes, a well-established area in the classical theory of Markov processes with broad applications in the design,…

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We present a formalism to describe slowly decaying systems in the context of finite Markov chains obeying detailed balance. We show that phase space can be partitioned into approximately decoupled regions, in which one may introduce…

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We consider a Markov jump process on a general state space to which we apply a time-dependent weak perturbation over a finite time interval. By martingale-based stochastic calculus, under a suitable exponential moment bound for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Alessandra Faggionato , Vittoria Silvestri

Mesoscopic models in the reaction-diffusion framework have gained recognition as a viable approach to describing chemical processes in cell biology. The resulting computational problem is a continuous-time Markov chain on a discrete and…

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Performing numerical integration when the integrand itself cannot be evaluated point-wise is a challenging task that arises in statistical analysis, notably in Bayesian inference for models with intractable likelihood functions. Markov…

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The influence-matrix formalism provides an alternative route to the classical simulation of quantum dynamics. Because influence matrices retain information only about the effective bath seen by local observables, they are expected to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Cathy Li , Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Tianci Zhou

Multitask learning (MTL) leverages task-relatedness to enhance performance. With the emergence of multimodal data, tasks can now be referenced by multiple indices. In this paper, we employ high-order tensors, with each mode corresponding to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Jiani Liu , Qinghua Tao , Ce Zhu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Johan A. K. Suykens

Many complex systems exhibit interactions that depend not only on pairwise connections, but also group structures and memory effects. To capture such effects, we develop a unified tensor framework for modeling higher-order Markov chains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Shaoxuan Cui , Lingfei Wang , Hildeberto Jardon-Kojakhmetov , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ming Cao

Multitask learning (MTL) can utilize the relatedness between multiple tasks for performance improvement. The advent of multimodal data allows tasks to be referenced by multiple indices. High-order tensors are capable of providing efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Jiani Liu , Qinghua Tao , Ce Zhu , Yipeng Liu , Johan A. K. Suykens