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This paper presents a class of Dynamic Multi-Armed Bandit problems where the reward can be modeled as the noisy output of a time varying linear stochastic dynamic system that satisfies some boundedness constraints. The class allows many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-10 T. W. U. Madhushani , D. H. S. Maithripala , N. E. Leonard

We apply a Gaussian variational approximation to model reduction in large biochemical networks of unary and binary reactions. We focus on a small subset of variables (subnetwork) of interest, e.g. because they are accessible experimentally,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Barbara Bravi , Peter Sollich

In this work, we define a practical identifiability criterion, (e, q)-identifiability, based on a parameter e, reflecting the noise in observed variables, and a parameter q, reflecting the mean-square error of the parameter estimator. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Nora Heitzman-Breen , Vanja Dukic , David M. Bortz

We consider a stochastic linear bandit model in which the available actions correspond to arbitrary context vectors whose associated rewards follow a non-stationary linear regression model. In this setting, the unknown regression parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Yoan Russac , Claire Vernade , Olivier Cappé

Sampling in shift-invariant spaces is a realistic model for signals with smooth spectrum. In this paper, we consider phaseless sampling and reconstruction of real-valued signals in a shift-invariant space from their magnitude measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Cheng Cheng , Junzheng Jiang , Qiyu Sun

A sensing policy for the restless multi-armed bandit problem with stationary but unknown reward distributions is proposed. The work is presented in the context of cognitive radios in which the bandit problem arises when deciding which parts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Jan Oksanen , Visa Koivunen , H. Vincent Poor

This paper describes recursive algorithms for state estimation of linear dynamical systems when measurements are noisy with unknown bias and/or outliers. For situations with noisy and biased measurements, algorithms are proposed that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Krishan Mohan Nagpal

Noise fundamentally limits the performance and predictive capabilities of classical and quantum dynamical systems by degrading stability and obscuring intrinsic dynamical characteristics. Characterizing such noise accurately is essential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Adva Baratz , Loris Maria Cangemi , Assaf Hamo , Sivan Refaely-Abramson , Amikam Levy

When measurements from dynamical systems are noisy, it is useful to have estimation algorithms that have low sensitivity to measurement noises and outliers. In the first set of results described in this paper we obtain optimal estimators…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Krishan Mohan Nagpal

Temporal variations in biological systems and more generally in natural sciences are typically modelled as a set of Ordinary, Partial, or Stochastic Differential or Difference Equations. Algorithms for learning the structure and the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-23 Yannis Pantazis , Ioannis Tsamardinos

With the rapid increase of valuable observational, experimental and simulated data for complex systems, much efforts have been devoted to identifying governing laws underlying the evolution of these systems. Despite the wide applications of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Yang Li , Yubin Lu , Shengyuan Xu , Jinqiao Duan

Non-parametric representations of dynamical systems based on the image of a Hankel matrix of data are extensively used for data-driven control. However, if samples of data are missing, obtaining such representations becomes a difficult…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Mohammad Alsalti , Ivan Markovsky , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

We study the distribution of maxima (Extreme Value Statistics) for sequences of observables computed along orbits generated by random transformations. The underlying, deterministic, dynamical system can be regular or chaotic. In the former…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Davide Faranda , Jorge Milhazes Freitas , Valerio Lucarini , Giorgio Turchetti , Sandro Vaienti

This work is concerned with the dynamics of a class of slow-fast stochastic dynamical systems with non-Gaussian stable L\'evy noise with a scale parameter. Slow manifolds with exponentially tracking property are constructed, eliminating the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Shenglan Yuan , Jianyu Hu , Xianming Liu , Jinqiao Duan

This note studies the exponential convergence of input-output signals of discrete-time nonlinear systems composed of a feedback interconnection of a linear time-invariant system and a nonlinear uncertainty. Both the open-loop subsystems are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Lanlan Su , Di Zhao , Sei Zhen Khong

We study high-dimensional multi-armed contextual bandits with batched feedback where the $T$ steps of online interactions are divided into $L$ batches. In specific, each batch collects data according to a policy that depends on previous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Jianqing Fan , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Chenlu Ye

In this work, we study the problem of learning the volatility under market microstructure noise. Specifically, we consider noisy discrete time observations from a stochastic differential equation and develop a novel computational method to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-19 Shota Gugushvili , Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Peter Spreij

The paper considers the problem of robust estimating a periodic function in a continuous time regression model with dependent disturbances given by a general square integrable semimartingale with unknown distribution. An example of such a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Victor Konev , Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

This paper is devoted to the development of adaptive control schemes for uncertain discrete-time systems, which guarantee robust, global, exponential convergence to the desired equilibrium point of the system. The proposed control scheme…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Iasson Karafyllis , Maria Kontorinaki , Markos Papageorgiou

We consider the problem of extracting a low-dimensional, linear latent variable structure from high-dimensional random variables. Specifically, we show that under mild conditions and when this structure manifests itself as a linear space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-14 Xiongzhi Chen , John D. Storey