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In this paper we propose a (non-linear) smoothing algorithm for group-affine observation systems, a recently introduced class of estimation problems on Lie groups that bear a particular structure. As most non-linear smoothing methods, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Paul Chauchat , Axel Barrau , Silvère Bonnabel

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices and let $\mu_0$ be a probability measure on $V$. The act of moving to a randomly chosen neighbor leads to a sequence of probability measures supported on $V$ given by $\mu_{k+1} = A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

The quantum random walk has drawn special interests because its remarkable features to the classical counterpart could lead to new quantum algorithms. In this paper, we propose a feasible scheme to implement quantum random walks on a line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi Zhao , Jiangfeng Du , Hui Li , Tao Yang , Zeng-Bing Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

The paper analyzes a mollification algorithm, for the numerical computation of optimal irrigation patterns. This provides a regularization of the standard irrigation cost functional, in a Lagrangian framework. Lower semicontinuity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Alberto Bressan , Giacomo Vecchiato , Ludmil Zikatanov

Random walks on general graphs play an important role in the understanding of the general theory of stochastic processes. Beyond their fundamental interest in probability theory, they arise also as simple models of physical systems. A brief…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Massimo Campanino , Dimitri Petritis

We introduce and study a mathematical framework for a broad class of regularization functionals for ill-posed inverse problems: Regularization Graphs. Regularization graphs allow to construct functionals using as building blocks linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Kristian Bredies , Marcello Carioni , Martin Holler

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

Using a probabilistic interpretation of the Burau representation of the braid group offered by Vaughan Jones, we generalize the Burau representation to a representation of the semigroup of string links. This representation is determined by…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Xiao-Song Lin , Feng Tian , Zhenghan Wang

We analyze the Brownian Motion limit of a prototypical unit step reinforced random-walk on the half line. A reinforced random walk is one which changes the weight of any edge (or vertex) visited to increase the frequency of return visits.…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Jerome K. Percus , Ora E. Percus

Graph-limit theory focuses on the convergence of sequences of graphs when the number of nodes becomes arbitrarily large. This framework defines a continuous version of graphs allowing for the study of dynamical systems on very large graphs,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Julien Petit , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Neural operators generalize neural networks to learn mappings between function spaces from data. They are commonly used to learn solution operators of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) or propagators of time-dependent PDEs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Emilia Magnani , Marvin Pförtner , Tobias Weber , Philipp Hennig

We investigate unimodular random networks. Our motivations include their characterization via reversibility of an associated random walk and their similarities to unimodular quasi-transitive graphs. We extend various theorems concerning…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-20 David Aldous , Russell Lyons

Marginalization -- summing a function over all assignments to a subset of its inputs -- is a fundamental computational problem with applications from probabilistic inference to formal verification. Despite its computational hardness in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Oliver Broadrick , Sanyam Agarwal , Guy Van den Broeck , Markus Bläser

We study the escape probability problem in random walks over graphs. Given vertices, $s,t,$ and $p$, the problem asks for the probability that a random walk starting at $s$ will hit $t$ before hitting $p$. Such probabilities can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jingbang Chen , Mehrdad Ghadiri , Hoai-An Nguyen , Richard Peng , Junzhao Yang

We consider a modified random walk which uses unvisited edges whenever possible, and makes a simple random walk otherwise. We call such a walk an edge-process. We assume there is a rule A, which tells the walk which unvisited edge to use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Petra Berenbrink , Colin Cooper , Tom Friedetzky

Without using conformal transformation, a simple type of five-dimensional $f(R)-$brane model is linearized directly in its higher-order frame. In this paper, the linearization is conducted in the equation of motion approach. We first derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-28 Yuan Zhong , Ke Yang , Yu-Xiao Liu

We use representation theory of $S_n$ to analyze the mixing of permutation cycle type statistics $a_j(\sigma) = ${# of $j$-cycles of $\sigma$} for any fixed $j$ and $\sigma$ resulting from a random $i$-cycle walk on $S_n$. We also derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Dominic Arcona

Iterative regularization is a classic idea in regularization theory, that has recently become popular in machine learning. On the one hand, it allows to design efficient algorithms controlling at the same time numerical and statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Vassilis Apidopoulos , Tomaso Poggio , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Normalizing Flows are a promising new class of algorithms for unsupervised learning based on maximum likelihood optimization with change of variables. They offer to learn a factorized component representation for complex nonlinear data and,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Reuben Feinman , Nikhil Parthasarathy

$M$-Lipschitz mappings of graphs (or equivalently graph-indexed random walks) are a generalization of standard random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$. For $M \in \N$, an \emph{$M$-Lipschitz mapping} of a connected rooted graph $G = (V,E)$ is a mapping…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Jan Bok