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Diffusion models often generate novel samples even when the learned score is only \emph{coarse} -- a phenomenon not accounted for by the standard view of diffusion training as density estimation. In this paper, we show that, under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zebang Shen , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Niao He

Estimating the intrinsic dimensionality (ID) of data is a fundamental problem in machine learning and computer vision, providing insight into the true degrees of freedom underlying high-dimensional observations. Existing methods often rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Eng-Jon Ong , Omer Bobrowski , Gesine Reinert , Primoz Skraba

Reachability analysis, in general, is a fundamental method that supports formally-correct synthesis, robust model predictive control, set-based observers, fault detection, invariant computation, and conformance checking, to name but a few.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Niklas Kochdumper , Bastian Schürmann , Matthias Althoff

Given a sample of an abstract manifold immersed in some Euclidean space, we describe a way to recover the singular homology of the original manifold. It consists in estimating its tangent bundle -- seen as subset of another Euclidean space…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Raphaël Tinarrage

In the setting of continuous maps between compact orientable manifolds of the same dimension, there is a well known averaging formula for the coincidence Lefschetz number in terms of the Lefschetz numbers of lifts to some finite covering…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Jong Bum Lee , P. Christopher Staecker

An exact computation of the persistent Betti numbers of a submanifold $X$ of a Euclidean space is possible only in a theoretical setting. In practical situations, only a finite sample of $X$ is available. We show that, under suitable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Niccolò Cavazza , Massimo Ferri , Claudia Landi

We establish sharp estimates for the convergence rate of the Kranosel'ski\v{\i}-Mann fixed point iteration in general normed spaces, and we use them to show that the asymptotic regularity bound recently proved in [11] (Israel Journal of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Mario Bravo , Roberto Cominetti

This paper presents uniform estimation and inference theory for a large class of nonparametric partitioning-based M-estimators. The main theoretical results include: (i) uniform consistency for convex and non-convex objective functions;…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Matias D. Cattaneo , Yingjie Feng , Boris Shigida

Universal approximation theorems establish the expressive capacity of neural network architectures. For dynamical systems, existing results are limited to finite time horizons or systems with a globally stable equilibrium, leaving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Abel Sagodi , Il Memming Park

This paper revisits a fundamental problem in statistical inference from a non-asymptotic theoretical viewpoint $\unicode{x2013}$ the construction of confidence sets. We establish a finite-sample bound for the estimator, characterizing its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Lang Liu , Zaid Harchaoui

We extend a recently proposed 1-nearest-neighbor based multiclass learning algorithm and prove that our modification is universally strongly Bayes-consistent in all metric spaces admitting any such learner, making it an "optimistically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Steve Hanneke , Aryeh Kontorovich , Sivan Sabato , Roi Weiss

We study a generalization of the Fr\'echet mean on metric spaces, which we call $\phi$-means. Our generalization is indexed by a convex function $\phi$. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for $\phi$-means to be finite and provide a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Andrea Aveni , Sayan Mukherjee

A classical result of A.D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n-$dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $\Bbb R^{n+1}$, and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 YanYan Li , Louis Nirenberg

This article is concerned with the approximation of unbounded convex sets by polyhedra. While there is an abundance of literature investigating this task for compact sets, results on the unbounded case are scarce. We first point out the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Daniel Dörfler

We study the problem of finding the global Riemannian center of mass of a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. Specifically, we investigate the convergence of constant step-size gradient descent algorithms for solving this problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-05 Bijan Afsari , Roberto Tron , René Vidal

We examine theoretical properties of the denoising score matching estimate. We model the density of observations with a nonparametric Gaussian mixture. We significantly relax the standard manifold assumption allowing the samples step away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Konstantin Yakovlev , Nikita Puchkin

Given a sample of a random variable supported by a smooth compact manifold $M\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, we propose a test to decide whether the boundary of $M$ is empty or not with no preliminary support estimation. The test statistic is based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Catherine Aaron , Alejandro Cholaquidis

The problem of estimating, from a random sample of points, the dimension of a compact subset $S$ of the Euclidean space is considered. The emphasis is put on consistency results in the statistical sense. That is, statements of convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Antonio Cuevas , Beatriz Pateiro-López

The purpose of this article is to prove a generalisation of the Besicovitch-Federer projection theorem about a characterisation of rectifiable and unrectifiable sets in terms of their projections. For an $m$-unrectifiable set…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Jacek Gałęski

A general theory of preparational uncertainty relations for a quantum particle in one spatial dimension is developed. We derive conditions which determine whether a given smooth function of the particle's variances and its covariance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Spiros Kechrimparis , Stefan Weigert