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Stochastic resetting is a powerful strategy known to accelerate the first-passage time statistics of stochastic processes. While its effects on Markovian systems are well understood, a general framework for non-Markovian dynamics is still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Debasish Saha , Rati Sharma

Stochastic resetting, the procedure of stopping and re-initializing random processes, has recently emerged as a powerful tool for accelerating processes ranging from queuing systems to molecular simulations. However, its usefulness is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Tommer D. Keidar , Ofir Blumer , Barak Hirshberg , Shlomi Reuveni

First passage under restart has recently emerged as a conceptual framework suitable for the description of a wide range of phenomena, but the endless variety of ways in which restart mechanisms and first passage processes mix and match…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-25 Arnab Pal , Shlomi Reuveni

Stochastic restart may drastically reduce the expected run time of a computer algorithm, expedite the completion of a complex search process, or increase the turnover rate of an enzymatic reaction. These diverse first-passage-time (FPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-30 Shlomi Reuveni

Irregular temporal data, characterized by varying recording frequencies, differing observation durations, and missing values, presents significant challenges across fields like mobility, healthcare, and environmental science. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Francesco Spinnato , Cristiano Landi

We study the effect of restart, and retry, on the mean completion time of a generic process. The need to do so arises in various branches of the sciences and we show that it can naturally be addressed by taking advantage of the classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-30 Tal Rotbart , Shlomi Reuveni , Michael Urbakh

The authors present evidence for universality in numerical computations with random data. Given a (possibly stochastic) numerical algorithm with random input data, the time (or number of iterations) to convergence (within a given tolerance)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Percy Deift , Govind Menon , Sheehan Olver , Thomas Trogdon

Real-world clinical time series data sets exhibit a high prevalence of missing values. Hence, there is an increasing interest in missing data imputation. Traditional statistical approaches impose constraints on the data-generating process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Yang Guo , Zhengyuan Liu , Pavitra Krishnswamy , Savitha Ramasamy

We propose a general method for the construction and analysis of unweighted $\epsilon$ - recurrence networks from chaotic time series. The selection of the critical threshold $\epsilon_c$ in our scheme is done empirically and we show that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-21 Rinku Jacob , K. P. Harikrishnan , R. Misra , G. Ambika

We consider the simple random walk (or P\'olya walk) on the one-dimensional lattice subject to stochastic resetting to the origin with probability $r$ at each time step. The focus is on the joint statistics of the numbers…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

First Passage (FP) processes are utilized widely to model phenomena in many areas of mathematical applications, from biology to computer science. Introducing a mechanism to restart the parent process can alter the first passage…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Jason M. Flynn , Sergei S. Pilyugin

Hypergraph has been selected as a powerful candidate for characterizing higher-order networks and has received increasing attention in recent years. In this article, we study random walks with resetting on hypergraph by utilizing spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Fei Ma , Xincheng Hu , Haobin Shi , Wei Pan , Ping Wang

Free recall of random lists of words is a standard paradigm used to probe human memory. We proposed an associative search process that can be reduced to a deterministic walk on random graphs defined by the structure of memory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-01 Michelangelo Naim , Mikhail Katkov , Sandro Romani , Misha Tsodyks

Randomized algorithms sometimes employ a restart strategy. After a certain number of steps, the current computation is aborted and restarted with a new, independent random seed. In some cases, this results in an improved overall expected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Jan-Hendrik Lorenz

We generalize the potential outcome framework to time series with an intervention by defining causal effects on stochastic processes. Interventions in dynamic systems alter not only outcome levels but also evolutionary dynamics -- changing…

Numerous purportedly improved metaheuristics claim superior performance based on equivalent function evaluations (FEs), yet often conceal additional computational burdens in more intensive iterations, preprocessing stages, or hyperparameter…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Junbo Jacob Lian

Many biological processes, from cell division to viral lysis, are triggered when an internal stochastic variable reaches a threshold. Here we introduce Branching under First-Passage Resetting, a general framework in which replication events…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-19 Aanjaneya Kumar , James Holehouse

We consider the Bayesian optimal filtering problem: i.e. estimating some conditional statistics of a latent time-series signal from an observation sequence. Classical approaches often rely on the use of assumed or estimated transition and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-16 Adrian N. Bishop , Edwin V. Bonilla

Optimization of a random processes by restart is a subject of active theoretical research in statistical physics and has long found practical application in computer science. Meanwhile, one of the key issues remains largely unsolved: when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 Ilia Nikitin , Sergey Belan

We construct a renewal structure for random walks on surface groups. The renewal times are defined as times when the random walks enters a particular type of a cone and never leaves it again. As a consequence, the trajectory of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Peter Haissinsky , Pierre Mathieu , Sebastian Mueller