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Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Y. K. Ying , J. R. Maddison , J. Vanneste

Bayesian inference in complex generative models is often obstructed by the absence of tractable likelihoods and the infeasibility of computing gradients of high-dimensional simulators. Existing likelihood-free methods for generalized…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-05 Diksha Bhandari , Sebastian Reich

Error bounds are derived for sampling and estimation using a discretization of an intrinsically defined Langevin diffusion with invariant measure $\text{d}\mu_\phi \propto e^{-\phi} \mathrm{dvol}_g $ on a compact Riemannian manifold. Two…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Karthik Bharath , Alexander Lewis , Akash Sharma , Michael V Tretyakov

Mean-field dynamo equations are addressed with the aid of the path-integral method. The evolution of magnetic field is treated as a three-dimensional Wiener random process, and the mean magnetic-field equations are obtained with the Wiener…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Dmitry Sokoloff , Nobumitsu Yokoi

Many real-world phenomena can be modelled as dynamical processes on networks, a prominent example being the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Mean-field approximations are a widely used tool to analyse such dynamical processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Jonathan A. Ward , Gábor Timár , Péter L. Simon

Trajectory data is essential for various applications as it records the movement of vehicles. However, publicly available trajectory datasets remain limited in scale due to privacy concerns, which hinders the development of trajectory data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Tonglong Wei , Youfang Lin , Shengnan Guo , Yan Lin , Yiheng Huang , Chenyang Xiang , Yuqing Bai , Huaiyu Wan

We propose a novel learning framework based on neural mean-field dynamics for inference and estimation problems of diffusion on networks. Our new framework is derived from the Mori-Zwanzig formalism to obtain an exact evolution of the node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Shushan He , Hongyuan Zha , Xiaojing Ye

This paper presents a framework capable of accurately and smoothly estimating position, heading, and velocity. Using this high-quality input, we propose a system based on Trajectron++, able to consistently generate precise trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mikolaj Kliniewski , Jesse Morris , Ian R. Manchester , Viorela Ila

Variational inference (VI) has emerged as a popular method for approximate inference for high-dimensional Bayesian models. In this paper, we propose a novel VI method that extends the naive mean field via entropic regularization, referred…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Bohan Wu , David Blei

For intelligent transportation systems and autonomous vehicles to operate safely and efficiently, they must reliably predict the future motion and trajectory of surrounding agents within complex traffic environments. At the same time, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mitch Kosieradzki , Seongjin Choi

Data assimilation, in its most comprehensive form, addresses the Bayesian inverse problem of identifying plausible state trajectories that explain noisy or incomplete observations of stochastic dynamical systems. Various approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 François Rozet , Gilles Louppe

Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Pierre Baqué , Jean-Hubert Hours , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

Pervasive across diverse domains, stochastic systems exhibit fluctuations in processes ranging from molecular dynamics to climate phenomena. The Langevin equation has served as a common mathematical model for studying such systems, enabling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-01 Youngkyoung Bae , Seungwoong Ha , Hawoong Jeong

In this paper, we consider a tree inference problem motivated by the critical problem in single-cell genomics of reconstructing dynamic cellular processes from sequencing data. In particular, given a population of cells sampled from such a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Elodie Maignant , Tim Conrad , Christoph von Tycowicz

Multiscale spatial structure complicates temporal prediction because small-scale spatial fluctuations influence large-scale evolution, yet resolving all scales is often intractable. Standard diffusion models do not address this problem…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yuki Yasuda , Tobias Bischoff

Many statistical problems include model parameters that are defined as the solutions to optimization sub-problems. These include classical approaches such as profile likelihood as well as modern applications involving flow networks or…

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This paper proposes a novel model inference procedure to identify system matrix from a single noisy trajectory over a finite-time interval. The proposed inference procedure comprises an observation data processor, a redundant data processor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yanbing Mao , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros Voulgaris , Lui Sha

Identifying the drift and diffusion of an SDE from its population dynamics is a notoriously challenging task. Researchers in machine learning and single-cell biology have only been able to prove a partial identifiability result: for…

We propose a novel learning framework using neural mean-field (NMF) dynamics for inference and estimation problems on heterogeneous diffusion networks. Our new framework leverages the Mori-Zwanzig formalism to obtain an exact evolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Shushan He , Hongyuan Zha , Xiaojing Ye

This paper addresses the problem of estimating link flows in a road network by combining limited traffic volume and vehicle trajectory data. While traffic volume data from loop detectors have been the common data source for link flow…

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