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We propose a graph-based clustering method based on Cluster Catch Digraphs (CCDs) that extends their applicability to moderate-dimensional data settings. Existing CCD variants, such as RK-CCDs, rely on spatial randomness tests based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rui Shi , Elvan Ceyhan , Nedret Billor

Accurate modelling of redshift-space distortions (RSD) is challenging in the non-linear regime for two-point statistics e.g. the two-point correlation function (2PCF). We take a different perspective to split the galaxy density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Enrique Paillas , Yan-Chuan Cai , Nelson Padilla , Ariel Sánchez

$k$ Nearest Neighbors ($k$NN) is one of the most widely used supervised learning algorithms to classify Gaussian distributed data, but it does not achieve good results when it is applied to nonlinear manifold distributed data, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Enmei Tu , Yaqian Zhang , Lin Zhu , Jie Yang , Nikola Kasabov

K-Nearest neighbor classifier (k-NNC) is simple to use and has little design time like finding k values in k-nearest neighbor classifier, hence these are suitable to work with dynamically varying data-sets. There exists some fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-29 T. Hitendra Sarma , P. Viswanath , D. Sai Koti Reddy , S. Sri Raghava

A new method for analyzing point patterns produced by the evolution of gravitational clustering is presented. The method is taken from the study of molecular liquids, where it has been introduced for making a statistical description of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Valdarnini

The large-scale structure of the Universe is distributed in a cosmic web. Studying the distribution and clustering of dark matter particles and halos may open up a new horizon for studying the physics of the dark Universe. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Mohadese Khoshtinat , Mohammad Ansarifard , Farbod Hassani , Shant Baghram

The combination of Markov state modeling (MSM) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has been shown in recent years to be a valuable approach to unravel the slow processes of molecular systems with increasing complexity. While the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 R. Gregor Weiß , Benjamin Ries , Shuzhe Wang , Sereina Riniker

We introduce a novel unbiased, cross-correlation estimator for the one-point statistics of cosmological random fields. One-point statistics are a useful tool for analysis of highly non-Gaussian density fields, while cross-correlations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Patrick C. Breysse , Dongwoo T. Chung , Håvard T. Ihle

The cumulative distribution and quantile functions for the two-sided one sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov probability distributions are used for goodness-of-fit testing. The CDF is notoriously difficult to explicitly describe and to compute, and…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-02 Paul van Mulbregt

Clustering-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) organizes a set of points into partitions, and searches only a few of them to find the nearest neighbors of a query. Despite its popularity, there are virtually no analytical tools…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Thomas Vecchiato , Sebastian Bruch

In this letter, we derive the cumulative density function (CDF) of the nearest neighbor and contact distance distributions of the Matern cluster process (MCP) in R2. These results will be useful in the performance analysis of many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Mehrnaz Afshang , Chiranjib Saha , Harpreet S. Dhillon

High-dimensional clustering often relies on geometric or local-similarity structure, but the dominant separation between groups may not always be location-based. Differences in dispersion can create asymmetric local-neighborhood patterns:…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Hao Chen , Xiancheng Lin

Nearest neighbor search has found numerous applications in machine learning, data mining and massive data processing systems. The past few years have witnessed the popularity of the graph-based nearest neighbor search paradigm because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hongya Wang , Zhizheng Wang , Wei Wang , Yingyuan Xiao , Zeng Zhao , Kaixiang Yang

We present a new approach for quantifying the abundance of galaxy clusters and constraining cosmological parameters using dynamical measurements. In the standard method, galaxy line-of-sight (LOS) velocities, $v$, or velocity dispersions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , J. Cisewski , L. C. Price

Distance correlation coefficient (DCC) can be used to identify new associations and correlations between multiple variables. The distance correlation coefficient applies to variables of any dimension, can be used to determine smaller sets…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-13 J. E. Salgado-Hernández , Manan Vyas

Fiber collision is a persistent problem faced by modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys. In this work, we propose a new method to correct for this undesired effect, focusing on the clustering from the fiber-collision scale up to $\lesssim 10…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Lei Yang , Yipeng Jing , Xiaohu Yang , Jiaxin Han

The abundance of clusters and the clustering of galaxies are two of the important cosmological probes for current and future large scale surveys of galaxies, such as the Dark Energy Survey. In order to combine them one has to account for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Fabien Lacasa , Rogerio Rosenfeld

The cumulative distribution and quantile functions for the one-sided one sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov probability distributions are used for goodness-of-fit testing. While the Smirnov-Birnbaum-Tingey formula for the CDF appears straight…

Computation · Statistics 2018-02-21 Paul van Mulbregt

The problem of accurate nonparametric estimation of distributional functionals (integral functionals of one or more probability distributions) has received recent interest due to their wide applicability in signal processing, information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Kevin R. Moon , Kumar Sricharan , Alfred O. Hero

Fueled by applications in sensor networks, these years have witnessed a surge of interest in distributed estimation and filtering. A new approach is hereby proposed for the Distributed Kalman Filter (DKF) by integrating a local covariance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ye Yuan , Ling Shi , Jun Liu , Zhiyong Chen , Hai-Tao Zhang , Jorge Goncalves