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In [2] we introduced a method combining together an observability inequality and a spectral decomposition to get a logarithmic stability estimate for the inverse problem of determining both the potential and the damping coefficient in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Kais Ammari , Mourad Choulli

In this paper we study the inverse boundary value problem of determining the potential in the Schr\"{o}dinger equation from the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, which is commonly accepted as an ill-posed problem in the sense that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Lingyun Qiu

We derive a vector generalization of the curvature-corrected Cram\'er--Rao bound (CRB) in the nonasymptotic regime using a Hilbert space square-root embedding. Building on previous scalar results, we establish a \emph{directional} curvature…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Sunder Ram Krishnan

This paper deals with Cram\'er-Rao inequalities in the context of nonextensive statistics and in estimation theory. It gives characterizations of generalized q-Gaussian distributions, and introduces generalized versions of Fisher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 J. -F. Bercher

This paper is intended to give a characterization of the optimality case in Nash's inequality, based on methods of nonlinear analysis for elliptic equations and techniques of the calculus of variations. By embedding the problem into a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Emeric Bouin , Jean Dolbeault , Christian Schmeiser

We discuss model selection to determine whether the variance-covariance matrix of a multivariate Gaussian model with known mean should be considered to be a constant diagonal, a non-constant diagonal, or an arbitrary positive definite…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-05 Zachary M. Pisano , Daniel Q. Naiman , Carey E. Priebe

We consider the Bayesian optimal filtering problem: i.e. estimating some conditional statistics of a latent time-series signal from an observation sequence. Classical approaches often rely on the use of assumed or estimated transition and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-16 Adrian N. Bishop , Edwin V. Bonilla

We present a new proof of the quantum Cramer-Rao bound for precision parameter estimation [1-3] and extend it to a more general class of measurement procedures. We analyze a generalized framework for parameter estimation that covers most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 Garry Goldstein , Mikhail D. Lukin , Paola Cappellaro

Estimating boundary curves has many applications such as economics, climate science, and medicine. Bayesian trend filtering has been developed as one of locally adaptive smoothing methods to estimate the non-stationary trend of data. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-13 Takahiro Onizuka , Fumiya Iwashige , Shintaro Hashimoto

We continue the development, by reduction to a first order system for the conormal gradient, of $L^2$ \textit{a priori} estimates and solvability for boundary value problems of Dirichlet, regularity, Neumann type for divergence form second…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Pascal Auscher , Andreas Rosén

The theoretical foundation of quantum sensing is rooted in the Cram\'er-Rao formalism, which establishes quantitative precision bounds for a given quantum probe. In many practical scenarios, where more than one parameter is unknown, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 George Mihailescu , Saubhik Sarkar , Abolfazl Bayat , Steve Campbell , Andrew K. Mitchell

We consider the problem of estimating a random state vector when there is information about the maximum distances between its subvectors. The estimation problem is posed in a Bayesian framework in which the minimum mean square error (MMSE)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Dave Zachariah , Isaac Skog , Magnus Jansson , Peter Händel

The Bayesian learning rule is a natural-gradient variational inference method, which not only contains many existing learning algorithms as special cases but also enables the design of new algorithms. Unfortunately, when variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Wu Lin , Mark Schmidt , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Consider the centered Gaussian vector $X$ in $\R^n$ with covariance matrix $ \Sigma.$ Randomize $\Sigma$ such that $ \Sigma^{-1}$ has a Wishart distribution with shape parameter $p>(n-1)/2$ and mean $p\sigma.$ We compute the density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Gérard G. Letac

This paper deals with the robust estimation problem of a signal given noisy observations. We assume that the actual statistics of the signal and observations belong to a ball about the nominal statistics. This ball is formed by placing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Mattia Zorzi

We develop a variational regularisation framework that enables analytical solutions of the stationary de~Broglie--Bohm wave equation. The formulation begins with a Fisher-information-augmented action functional for the probability density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Anand Aruna Kumar , S. K. Srivatsa , Rajesh Tengli

The work is devoted to Dirichlet problem for sub-quintic semi-linear wave equation with damping damping term of the form $(-\Delta)^\alpha\partial_t u$, $\alpha\in(0,\frac{1}{2})$, in bounded smooth domains of $\Bbb R^3$. It appears that to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Anton Savostianov

This paper provides a general technique for lower bounding the Bayes risk of statistical estimation, applicable to arbitrary loss functions and arbitrary prior distributions. A lower bound on the Bayes risk not only serves as a lower bound…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Xi Chen , Adityanand Guntuboyina , Yuchen Zhang

We consider the nonparametric regression problem when the covariates are located on an unknown smooth compact submanifold of a Euclidean space. Under defining a random geometric graph structure over the covariates we analyze the asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Paul Rosa , Judith Rousseau

In quantum multi-parameter estimation, the precision of estimating unknown parameters is bounded by the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), defined via the inverse of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). However, in certain scenarios such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Min Namkung , Changhyoup Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim