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In classification problems, sampling bias between training data and testing data is critical to the ranking performance of classification scores. Such bias can be both unintentionally introduced by data collection and intentionally…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-02 Chandler Zuo

We present a framework for computing with input data specified by intervals, representing uncertainty in the values of the input parameters. To compute a solution, the algorithm can query the input parameters that yield more refined…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Manoj Gupta , Yogish Sabharwal , Sandeep Sen

We investigate systematic effects in direction dependent gain calibration in the context of the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) 21-cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) experiment. The LOFAR EoR Key Science Project aims to detect the 21-cm signal of…

This article describes a procedure for measuring and evaluating radio impulsive noise (IN) from a specific source. A good knowledge of the noise caused by different sources is essential to plan radio services and to ensure good quality of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Marta Fernandez , Iratxe Landa , Amaia Arrinda , Ruben Torre , Manuel Velez

Understanding how the optimal value of an optimisation problem changes when its input data is modified is an old question in mathematical optimisation. This paper investigates the computation of the optimal values of a family of (possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Guillaume Derval , Damien Ernst , Quentin Louveaux , Bardhyl Miftari

A set of intervals is independent when the intervals are pairwise disjoint. In the interval selection problem we are given a set $\mathbb{I}$ of intervals and we want to find an independent subset of intervals of largest cardinality. Let…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Sergio Cabello , Pablo Pérez-Lantero

The estimation of parameters characterizing dynamical processes is central to science and technology. The estimation error changes with the number N of resources employed in the experiment (which could quantify, for instance, the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 B. M. Escher , R. L. de Matos Filho , L. Davidovich

To reliably model real robot characteristics, interval linear systems of equations allow to describe families of problems that consider sets of values. This allows to easily account for typical complexities such as sets of joint states and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Joshua Pickard , Vincent Padois , Milan Hladík , David Daney

The problem of optimal estimation of linear functionals constructed from the unobserved values of a stochastic sequence with periodically stationary increments based on observations of the sequence with stationary noise is considered. For…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Maksym Luz , Mikhail Moklyachuk

We consider the problem of estimating confidence intervals for the mean of a random variable, where the goal is to produce the smallest possible interval for a given number of samples. While minimax optimal algorithms are known for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-19 Shengjia Zhao , Christopher Yeh , Stefano Ermon

Deep neural networks achieve high prediction accuracy when the train and test distributions coincide. In practice though, various types of corruptions occur which deviate from this setup and cause severe performance degradations. Few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Athanasios Tsiligkaridis

We theoretically and experimentally investigate relevant noise processes arising in optical fiber links, which fundamentally limit their relative stability. We derive the unsuppressed delay noise for three configurations of optical links:…

In the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the laser subsystems exhibit frequency fluctuations that introduce significant levels of noise into the measurements, surpassing the gravitational wave signal by several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-15 Philipp Euringer , Niklas Houba , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Oliver Mandel , Francis Soualle , Walter Fichter

This paper examines the problem of estimating the parameters of a bandlimited signal from samples corrupted by random jitter (timing noise) and additive iid Gaussian noise, where the signal lies in the span of a finite basis. For the…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-24 Daniel S. Weller , Vivek K Goyal

Solving optimization problems is the key to decision making in many real-life analytics applications. However, the coefficients of the optimization problems are often uncertain and dependent on external factors, such as future demand or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jayanta Mandi , Tias Guns

In order to improve the quality of synthesized videos, currently, one predominant method involves retraining an expert diffusion model and then implementing a noising-denoising process for refinement. Despite the significant training costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qinyu Yang , Haoxin Chen , Yong Zhang , Menghan Xia , Xiaodong Cun , Zhixun Su , Ying Shan

Ising machines are novel computing devices for the energy minimization of Ising models. These combinatorial optimization problems are of paramount importance for science and technology, but remain difficult to tackle on large scale by…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-28 Davide Pierangeli , Giulia Marcucci , Daniel Brunner , Claudio Conti

Interfractional geometric uncertainties can lead to deviations of the actual delivered dose from the prescribed dose distribution. To better handle these uncertainties during treatment, the authors propose a dynamic framework for robust…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Michelle Böck , Kjell Eriksson , Anders Forsgren

Residual calibration errors are difficult to predict in interferometric radio polarimetry because they depend on the employed observational calibration strategy, encompassing the Stokes vector of the calibrator and parallactic angle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 C. A. Hales

In time hopping impulse radio, $N_f$ pulses of duration $T_c$ are transmitted for each information symbol. This gives rise to two types of processing gain: (i) pulse combining gain, which is a factor $N_f$, and (ii) pulse spreading gain,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sinan Gezici , Andreas F. Molisch , H. Vincent Poor , Hisashi Kobayashi