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In this paper an iterated function system on the space of distribution functions is built. The inverse problem is introduced and studied by convex optimization problems. Some applications of this method to approximation of distribution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Stefano M. Iacus , Davide La Torre

We propose a new sampling-based approach for approximate inference in filtering problems. Instead of approximating conditional distributions with a finite set of states, as done in particle filters, our approach approximates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xuan Su , Wee Sun Lee , Zhen Zhang

Composite minimization is a powerful framework in large-scale convex optimization, based on decoupling of the objective function into terms with structurally different properties and allowing for more flexible algorithmic design. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Jelena Diakonikolas , Cristóbal Guzmán

In computational inverse problems, it is common that a detailed and accurate forward model is approximated by a computationally less challenging substitute. The model reduction may be necessary to meet constraints in computing time when…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-14 Daniela Calvetti , Matthew M. Dunlop , Erkki Somersalo , Andrew M. Stuart

We study the (weak) equilibrium problem arising from the problem of optimally stopping a one-dimensional diffusion subject to an expectation constraint on the time until stopping. The weak equilibrium problem is realized with a set of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Sören Christensen , Maike Klein , Boy Schultz

The current data explosion poses great challenges to the approximate aggregation with an efficiency and accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a novel approach to calculate the aggregation answers with a high accuracy using only a…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Shanshan Han , Hongzhi Wang , Jialin Wan , Jianzhong Li

We propose simple methods for multivariate diffusion bridge simulation, which plays a fundamental role in simulation-based likelihood and Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations. By a novel application of classical coupling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Mogens Bladt , Samuel Finch , Michael Sørensen

Iterative hard thresholding (IHT) is a projected gradient descent algorithm, known to achieve state of the art performance for a wide range of structured estimation problems, such as sparse inference. In this work, we consider IHT as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 Jacky Y. Zhang , Rajiv Khanna , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

This paper investigates the initial-boundary value problem for weakly coupled systems of time-fractional subdiffusion equations with spatially and temporally varying coupling coefficients. By combining the energy method with the coercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Kazuma Wada

Variational inequalities as an effective tool for solving applied problems, including machine learning tasks, have been attracting more and more attention from researchers in recent years. The use of variational inequalities covers a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Daniil Medyakov , Gleb Molodtsov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

The Ensemble Kalman methodology in an inverse problems setting can be viewed as an iterative scheme, which is a weakly tamed discretization scheme for a certain stochastic differential equation (SDE). Assuming a suitable approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Dirk Blömker , Claudia Schillings , Philipp Wacker

This paper introduces an elliptic quasi-variational inequality (QVI) problem class with fractional diffusion of order $s \in (0,1)$, studies existence and uniqueness of solutions and develops a solution algorithm. As the fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Harbir Antil , Carlos N. Rautenberg

Although for a number of semilinear stochastic wave equations existence and uniqueness results for corresponding solution processes are known from the literature, these solution processes are typically not explicitly known and numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Ladislas Jacobe de Naurois , Arnulf Jentzen , Timo Welti

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

We study minimization of a structured objective function, being the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator. Applications include image reconstruction problems with regularizers that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Axel Böhm , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper we present a novel approach towards variance reduction for discretised diffusion processes. The proposed approach involves specially constructed control variates and allows for a significant reduction in the variance for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Denis Belomestny , Stefan Häfner , Mikhail Urusov

We consider the problem of approximating the solution of variational problems subject to the constraint that the admissible functions must be convex. This problem is at the interface between convex analysis, convex optimization, variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Adam M. Oberman

We present a novel computational framework for diffusive-reactive systems that satisfies the non-negative constraint and maximum principles on general computational grids. The governing equations for the concentration of reactants and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-11 K. B. Nakshatrala , M. K. Mudunuru , A. J. Valocchi

We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple scattering phenomenon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

Data dispersed across multiple files are commonly integrated through probabilistic linkage methods, where even minimal error rates in record matching can significantly contaminate subsequent statistical analyses. In regression problems, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Abhisek Chakraborty , Saptati Datta