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We present an algorithm that takes a discrete random variable $X$ and a number $m$ and computes a random variable whose support (set of possible outcomes) is of size at most $m$ and whose Kolmogorov distance from $X$ is minimal. In addition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Liat Cohen , Dror Fried , Gera Weiss

We revisit extending the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between probability distributions to the multidimensional setting and make new arguments about the proper way to approach this generalization. Our proposed formulation maximizes the…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-16 Peter Matthew Jacobs , Foad Namjoo , Jeff M. Phillips

The deep Kolmogorov method is a simple and popular deep learning based method for approximating solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) of the Kolmogorov type. In this work we provide an error analysis for the deep Kolmogorov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Iulian Cîmpean , Thang Do , Lukas Gonon , Arnulf Jentzen , Ionel Popescu

The coding theorem for Kolmogorov complexity states that any string sampled from a computable distribution has a description length close to its information content. A coding theorem for resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity is the key to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuichi Hirahara , Zhenjian Lu , Mikito Nanashima

We examine nonlinear Kolmogorov partial differential equations (PDEs). Here the nonlinear part of the PDE comes from its Hamiltonian where one maximizes over all possible drift and diffusion coefficients which fall within a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Daniel Bartl , Ariel Neufeld , Kyunghyun Park

This paper studies best finitely supported approximations of one-dimensional probability measures with respect to the $L^r$-Kantorovich (or transport) distance, where either the locations or the weights of the approximations' atoms are…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Chuang Xu , Arno Berger

We summarize our recent findings, where we proposed a framework for learning a Kolmogorov model, for a collection of binary random variables. More specifically, we derive conditions that link outcomes of specific random variables, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Hadi Ghauch , Mikael Skoglund , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Ali H. Sayed

In moldable job scheduling, we are provided $m$ identical machines and $n$ jobs that can be executed on a variable number of machines. The execution time of each job depends on the number of machines assigned to execute that job. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge

We consider distributional approximation by generalized Dickman distributions, which appear in number theory, perpetuities, logarithmic combinatorial structures and many other areas. We prove bounds in the Kolmogorov distance for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Chinmoy Bhattacharjee , Matthias Schulte

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

We show a methodology for the computation of the probability of deadline miss for a periodic real-time task scheduled by a resource reservation algorithm. We propose a modelling technique for the system that reduces the computation of such…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Luigi Palopoli , Daniele Fontanelli , Luca Abeni , Bernardo Villalba Frías

Suppose we have a sample from a distribution $D$ and we want to test whether $D = D^*$ for a fixed distribution $D^*$. Specifically, we want to reject with constant probability, if the distance of $D$ from $D^*$ is $\geq \varepsilon$ in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Christian Janos Lebeda , Jakub Tětek

Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) in high dimension, having the structure of finite dimensional approximation of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs), are considered. The aim is to compute numerically expected values and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Franco Flandoli , Dejun Luo , Cristiano Ricci

The minimum distance of a code is an important concept in information theory. Hence, computing the minimum distance of a code with a minimum computational cost is a crucial process to many problems in this area. In this paper, we present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Francisco D. Igual , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí

For numerical approximations to stochastic differential equations using the Euler-Maruyama scheme, we propose incorporating approximate random variables computed using low precisions, such as single and half precision. We propose and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Oliver Sheridan-Methven , Michael Giles

This paper investigates model reduction methods for efficiently approximating the solution of parameter-dependent PDEs with a multi-parameter vector $\vec{\mu} \in \mathbb{R}^p$. In cases where the Kolmogorov $N$-width decays fast enough,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Joubine Aghili , Hassan Ballout , Yvon Maday , Christophe Prud'homme

This paper studies sequence prediction based on the monotone Kolmogorov complexity Km=-log m, i.e. based on universal deterministic/one-part MDL. m is extremely close to Solomonoff's prior M, the latter being an excellent predictor in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Marcus Hutter

After reviewing unnormalized and normalized information distances based on incomputable notions of Kolmogorov complexity, we discuss how Kolmogorov complexity can be approximated by data compression algorithms. We argue that optimal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexei Kaltchenko

This paper studies sequence prediction based on the monotone Kolmogorov complexity Km=-log m, i.e. based on universal deterministic/one-part MDL. m is extremely close to Solomonoff's universal prior M, the latter being an excellent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Marcus Hutter

This paper provides a quantitative version of de Finetti law of large numbers. Given an infinite sequence $\{X_n\}_{n \geq 1}$ of exchangeable Bernoulli variables, it is well-known that $\frac{1}{n} \sum_{i = 1}^n X_i…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Emanuele Dolera , Stefano Favaro
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