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We describe a scalable experimental protocol for obtaining estimates of the error rate of individual quantum computational gates. This protocol, in which random Clifford gates are interleaved between a gate of interest, provides a bounded…

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While the evaluation of explanations is an important step towards trustworthy models, it needs to be done carefully, and the employed metrics need to be well-understood. Specifically model randomization testing is often overestimated and…

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Recent research has generated hope that inference scaling, such as resampling solutions until they pass verifiers like unit tests, could allow weaker models to match stronger ones. Beyond inference, this approach also enables training…

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We derive error bounds for CUR matrix approximation using determinant-based methods that relate local projection errors to global approximation quality. For general matrices, we establish determinant identities for bordered Gramian matrices…

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In this article, we derive an explicit formula for computing confidence interval for the mean of a bounded random variable. Moreover, we have developed multistage point estimation methods for estimating the mean value with prescribed…

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As we approach the era of quantum advantage, when quantum computers (QCs) can outperform any classical computer on particular tasks, there remains the difficult challenge of how to validate their performance. While algorithmic success can…

Modern database optimizer relies on cardinality estimator, whose accuracy directly affects the optimizer's ability to choose an optimal execution plan. Recent work on data-driven methods has leveraged probabilistic models to achieve higher…

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This work develops central limit theorems for cross-validation and consistent estimators of its asymptotic variance under weak stability conditions on the learning algorithm. Together, these results provide practical, asymptotically-exact…

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The estimation of a probability p from repeated Bernoulli trials is considered in this paper. A sequential approach is followed, using a simple stopping rule. A closed-form expression and an upper bound are obtained for the mean absolute…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Luis Mendo

Universal (pointwise uniform and time shifted) truncation error upper bounds are presented for the Whittaker--Kotel'nikov--Shannon (WKS) sampling restoration sum for Bernstein function classes $B_{\pi,d}^q,\, q>1,\, d\in \mathbb N$, when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-15 Andriy Olenko , Tibor K. Pogány

We propose new optimality criterion for the estimation of state-dependent cloning. We call this measure the relative error because the one compares the errors in the copies with contiguous size taking into account the similarity of states…

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When scholars suspect units are dependent on each other within clusters but independent of each other across clusters, they employ cluster-robust standard errors (CRSEs). Nevertheless, what to cluster over is sometimes unknown. For…

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Standard confidence intervals employed in applied statistical analysis are usually based on asymptotic approximations. Such approximations can be considerably inaccurate in small and moderate sized samples. We derive accurate confidence…

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We investigate the minimal error in approximating a general probability measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by the uniform measure on a finite set with prescribed cardinality $n$. The error is measured in the $p$-Wasserstein distance. In…

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Universal (pointwise uniform and time shifted) truncation error upper bounds are presented in Whittaker--Kotel'nikov--Shannon (WKS) sampling restoration sum for Bernstein function class $B_{\pi,d}^q\,,\ q \ge 1,$ $d\in \mathbb N\,,$ when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-15 Andriy Olenko , Tibor K. Pogány