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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Firuz Kamalov

A densely-sampled light field (LF) is highly desirable in various applications, such as 3-D reconstruction, post-capture refocusing and virtual reality. However, it is costly to acquire such data. Although many computational methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Jie Chen , Huanqiang Zeng , Sam Kwong , Jingyi Yu

Kernel adaptive filtering (KAF) integrates traditional linear algorithms with kernel methods to generate nonlinear solutions in the input space. The standard approach relies on the representer theorem and the kernel trick to perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Kan Li , Jose C. Principe

Nonlocal kinetic energy density functionals (KEDFs) with density-dependent kernels are currently the most accurate functionals available for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) calculations. However, despite advances in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-05 Yongshuo Chen , Cheng Ma , Boning Cui , Tian Cui , Wenhui Mi , Qiang Xu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Kernel learning forward backward SDE filter is an iterative and adaptive meshfree approach to solve the nonlinear filtering problem. It builds from forward backward SDE for Fokker-Planker equation, which defines evolving density for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yunzheng Lyu , Feng Bao

In batch Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) for a kernel function $f$, we are given as input $2n$ points $x^{(1)}, \cdots, x^{(n)}, y^{(1)}, \cdots, y^{(n)}$ in dimension $m$, as well as a vector $v \in \mathbb{R}^n$. These inputs implicitly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Josh Alman , Yunfeng Guan

In this paper, we propose a method for density-based clustering in high-dimensional spaces that combines Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) with the Quick Shift algorithm. The Quick Shift algorithm, known for its hierarchical clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sajjad Hashemian

We introduce \emph{topological density estimation} (TDE), in which the multimodal structure of a probability density function is topologically inferred and subsequently used to perform bandwidth selection for kernel density estimation. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-10 Steve Huntsman

We have developed a Monte Carlo method to compute the luminosity function of galaxies, based on photometric redshifts, which takes into account the non-gaussianity of the probability functions, and the presence of degenerate solutions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Micol Bolzonella , Roser Pello' , Dario Maccagni

This paper studies the asymptotic properties of and alternative inference methods for kernel density estimation (KDE) for dyadic data. We first establish uniform convergence rates for dyadic KDE. Secondly, we propose a modified jackknife…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-05-16 Harold D. Chiang , Bing Yang Tan

This paper introduces a novel kernel density estimator (KDE) based on the generalised exponential (GE) distribution, designed specifically for positive continuous data. The proposed GE KDE offers a mathematically tractable form that avoids…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-18 Laura M. Craig , Wagner Barreto-Souza

Kernel density estimation (KDE) stands out as a challenging task in machine learning. The problem is defined in the following way: given a kernel function $f(x,y)$ and a set of points $\{x_1, x_2, \cdots, x_n \} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jiehao Liang , Zhao Song , Zhaozhuo Xu , Junze Yin , Danyang Zhuo

In this paper we introduce an efficient method to unwrap multi-frequency phase estimates for time-of-flight ranging. The algorithm generates multiple depth hypotheses and uses a spatial kernel density estimate (KDE) to rank them. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Felix Järemo Lawin , Per-Erik Forssén , Hannes Ovrén

One key issue in several astrophysical problems is the evaluation of the density probability function underlying an observational discrete data set. We here review two non-parametric density estimators which recently appeared in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dario Fadda , Eric Slezak , Albert Bijaoui

We conduct a first comprehensive study of the Luminosity Function (LF) using a non-parametric approach. We use Gaussian Process to fit available luminosity data between redshifts $z \sim 2-8$. Our free-form LF in the non-parametric approach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-24 Debabrata Adak , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Sourav Mitra , Aditi Krishak

We propose a novel method for density estimation that leverages an estimated score function to debias kernel density estimation (SD-KDE). In our approach, each data point is adjusted by taking a single step along the score function with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Elliot L. Epstein , Rajat Dwaraknath , Thanawat Sornwanee , John Winnicki , Jerry Weihong Liu

We study efficient mechanisms for differentially private kernel density estimation (DP-KDE). Prior work for the Gaussian kernel described algorithms that run in time exponential in the number of dimensions $d$. This paper breaks the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tal Wagner , Yonatan Naamad , Nina Mishra

It is well known in astronomy that propagating non-Gaussian prediction uncertainty in photometric redshift estimates is key to reducing bias in downstream cosmological analyses. Similarly, likelihood-free inference approaches, which are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-16 Niccolò Dalmasso , Taylor Pospisil , Ann B. Lee , Rafael Izbicki , Peter E. Freeman , Alex I. Malz

A Local Orthogonal Polynomial Expansion (LOrPE) of the empirical density function is proposed as a novel method to estimate the underlying density. The estimate is constructed by matching localized expectation values of orthogonal…

Applications · Statistics 2015-05-05 D. P. Amali Dassanayake , Igor Volobouev , A. Alexandre Trindade

We present the results of a new study of the K-band galaxy luminosity function (KLF) at redshifts z<3.75, based on a nested combination of the UltraVISTA, CANDELS and HUDF surveys. The large dynamic range in luminosity spanned by this new…