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The development of randomized algorithms for numerical linear algebra, e.g. for computing approximate QR and SVD factorizations, has recently become an intense area of research. This paper studies one of the most frequently discussed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Rafi Witten , Emmanuel Candes

The stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA) is widely used to perform exact forward simulation of discrete stochastic processes in biology. However, the computational cost, driven by sequential event-by-event sampling across large ensembles,…

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Quantum computing requires a universal set of gate operations; regarding gates as rotations, any rotation angle must be possible. However a real device may only be capable of $B$ bits of resolution, i.e. it might support only $2^B$ possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Bálint Koczor , John Morton , Simon Benjamin

Recently proposed generative models for discrete data, such as Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs), exploit conditional independence approximations to reduce the computational cost of popular Auto-Regressive Models (ARMs), at the price of some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Hugo Lavenant , Giacomo Zanella

Floating-point accumulation networks (FPANs) are key building blocks used in many floating-point algorithms, including compensated summation and double-double arithmetic. FPANs are notoriously difficult to analyze, and algorithms using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 David K. Zhang , Alex Aiken

This work introduces and compares approaches for estimating rare-event probabilities related to the number of edges in the random geometric graph on a Poisson point process. In the one-dimensional setting, we derive closed-form expressions…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Christian Hirsch , Sarat B. Moka , Thomas Taimre , Dirk P. Kroese

We provide a closed form upper bound formulation for the average pairwise-error probability (PEP) of selective decode and forward (SDF) cooperation protocol for a keyhole (pinhole) channel condition. We have employed orthogonal space-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ravi Shankar , Yamini Chandrakar , Radhika Sinha , Ritesh Kumar Mishra

We consider the problem of estimating the mean of a sequence of random elements $f(X_1, \theta)$ $, \ldots, $ $f(X_n, \theta)$ where $f$ is a fixed scalar function, $S=(X_1, \ldots, X_n)$ are independent random variables, and $\theta$ is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Kyoungseok Jang , Kwang-Sung Jun , Ilja Kuzborskij , Francesco Orabona

We investigate the robustness of the model-X knockoffs framework with respect to the misspecified or estimated feature distribution. We achieve such a goal by theoretically studying the feature selection performance of a practically…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-06 Yingying Fan , Lan Gao , Jinchi Lv

Randomized matrix algorithms have become workhorse tools in scientific computing and machine learning. To use these algorithms safely in applications, they should be coupled with posterior error estimates to assess the quality of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Ethan N. Epperly , Joel A. Tropp

A central approach to algorithmic derandomization is to construct probability distributions with small support that "fool" randomized algorithms, often enabling efficient parallel (NC) implementations. An abstraction of this idea is fooling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jeff Giliberti , David G. Harris

The weakest pre-expectation calculus has been proved to be a mature theory to analyze quantitative properties of probabilistic and nondeterministic programs. We present an automatic method for proving quantitative linear properties on any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Damián Barsotti , Nicolás Wolovick

We develop an algorithm for computing bounded reachability probability for hybrid systems, i.e., the probability that the system reaches an unsafe region within a finite number of discrete transitions. In particular, we focus on hybrid…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Fedor Shmarov , Paolo Zuliani

Probability estimation is an elementary building block of every statistical data compression algorithm. In practice probability estimation is often based on relative letter frequencies which get scaled down, when their sum is too large.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Christopher Mattern

Linear algebra expressions, which play a central role in countless scientific computations, are often computed via a sequence of calls to existing libraries of building blocks (such as those provided by BLAS and LAPACK). A sequence…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Aravind Sankaran , Paolo Bientinesi

Most state-of-the-art branch-and-bound solvers for mixed-integer linear programming rely on limited-precision floating-point arithmetic and use numerical tolerances when reasoning about feasibility and optimality during their search. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Alexander Hoen , Ambros Gleixner

An a posteriori error estimator based on an equilibrated flux reconstruction is proposed for defeaturing problems in the context of finite element discretizations. Defeaturing consists in the simplification of a geometry by removing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Annalisa Buffa , Ondine Chanon , Denise Grappein , Rafael Vázquez , Martin Vohralík

Given a multivariate real (or complex) polynomial $p$ and a domain $\cal D$, we would like to decide whether an algorithm exists to evaluate $p(x)$ accurately for all $x \in {\cal D}$ using rounded real (or complex) arithmetic. Here…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Demmel , Ioana Dumitriu , Olga Holtz

Online learning methods yield sequential regret bounds under minimal assumptions and provide in-expectation risk bounds for statistical learning. However, despite the apparent advantage of online guarantees over their statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Dirk van der Hoeven , Nikita Zhivotovskiy , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

Currently, the dominating constraint in many high performance computing applications is data capacity and bandwidth, in both inter-node communications and even more-so in on-node data motion. A new approach to address this limitation is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Alyson Fox , James Diffenderfer , Jeffrey Hittinger , Geoffrey Sanders , Peter Lindstrom