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We are interested in martingale rearrangement couplings. As introduced by Wiesel [37] in order to prove the stability of Martingale Optimal Transport problems, these are projections in adapted Wasserstein distance of couplings between two…

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We address the numerical approximation of Mean Field Games with local couplings. For power-like Hamiltonians, we consider both unconstrained and constrained stationary systems with density constraints in order to model hard congestion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 L. M. Briceño-Arias , D. Kalise , F. J. Silva

Determining the strength of non-linear statistical dependencies between two variables is a crucial matter in many research fields. The established measure for quantifying such relations is the mutual information. However, estimating mutual…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-24 Damián G. Hernández , Inés Samengo

Many theoretical and experimental studies have used heuristic methods to investigate the dynamic behaviour of the passive coupling of adjacent structures. However, few papers have used optimization techniques with guaranteed convergence in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-09 K. Bigdeli , W. Hare , J. Nutini , S. Tesfamariam

In this paper, we study discrete quasi-copulas associated with imprecise copulas. We focus on discrete imprecise copulas that are in correspondence with the Alternating Sign Matrices and provide some construction techniques of dual pairs.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Tomaž Košir , Elisa Perrone

We study the approximation of non-negative multi-variate couplings in the uniform norm while matching given single-variable marginal constraints.

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Ugo Bindini , Tapio Rajala

We study martingale inequalities from an analytic point of view and show that a general martingale inequality can be reduced to a pair of deterministic inequalities in a small number of variables. More precisely, the optimal bound in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Mathias Beiglböck , Marcel Nutz

The paper presents a new copula based method for measuring dependence between random variables. Our approach extends the Maximum Mean Discrepancy to the copula of the joint distribution. We prove that this approach has several advantageous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Barnabas Poczos , Zoubin Ghahramani , Jeff Schneider

Evaluating joint probabilities of potential outcomes and observed variables, and their linear combinations, is a fundamental challenge in causal inference. This paper addresses the bounding and identification of these probabilities in…

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We consider the problem of minimizing the composition of a smooth (nonconvex) function and a smooth vector mapping, where the inner mapping is in the form of an expectation over some random variable or a finite sum. We propose a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Junyu Zhang , Lin Xiao

Modeling variability in tensor decomposition methods is one of the challenges of source separation. One possible solution to account for variations from one data set to another, jointly analysed, is to resort to the PARAFAC2 model. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Jeremy E. Cohen , Rasmus Bro

Topological conjugateness of one dimensional unimodal dynamical systems, which are generated by interval [0, 1] into itself maps are studied. We study the smoothness and differentiability of the conjugacy of symmetrical and non-symmetrical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Makar Plakhotnyk

The synthesis of complex materials through the self-assembly of particles at the nanoscale provides opportunities for the realization of novel material properties. However, the inverse design process to create experimentally feasible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-01 Carl S. Adorf , James Antonaglia , Julia Dshemuchadse , Sharon C. Glotzer

We consider the problem of minimizing convex combinations of the first two eigenvalues of the Dirichlet-Laplacian among open sets of $R^N$ of fixed measure. We show that, by purely elementary arguments, based on the minimality condition, it…

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Multimodal data is a precious asset enabling a variety of downstream tasks in machine learning. However, real-world data collected across different modalities is often not paired, which is a significant challenge to learn a joint…

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In nonadaptive group testing, the main research objective is to design an efficient algorithm to identify a set of up to $t$ positive elements among $n$ samples with as few tests as possible. Disjunct matrices and separable matrices are two…

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The purpose of this article is to motivate the study of invariant, and especially conformally invariant, differential pairings. Since a general theory is lacking, this work merely presents some interesting examples of these pairings,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Michael G. Eastwood

This paper describes the transition of a male-pessimal matching set to optimal when it is a man-oriented approach by deleting a pair from matching set considering the score based approach. A descriptive explanation of the proposed algorithm…

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Yurinskii's coupling is a popular theoretical tool for non-asymptotic distributional analysis in mathematical statistics and applied probability, offering a Gaussian strong approximation with an explicit error bound under easily verifiable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Matias D. Cattaneo , Ricardo P. Masini , William G. Underwood

The ability to estimate joint, conditional and marginal probability distributions over some set of variables is of great utility for many common machine learning tasks. However, estimating these distributions can be challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Andrew Skabar