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Flow Matching, a promising approach in generative modeling, has recently gained popularity. Relying on ordinary differential equations, it offers a simple and flexible alternative to diffusion models, which are currently the…

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We introduce a novel statistical significance-based approach for clustering hierarchical data using semi-parametric linear mixed-effects models designed for responses with laws in the exponential family (e.g., Poisson and Bernoulli). Within…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Alessandra Ragni , Chiara Masci , Francesca Ieva , Anna Maria Paganoni

Consider the problem when $X_1,X_2,..., X_n$ are distributed on a circle following an unknown distribution $F$ on $S^1$. In this article we have consider the absolute general set-up where the density can have local features such as…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-26 Kinjal Basu , Debapriya Sengupta

Several matrix variate hypergeometric type distributions are derived. The compound distributions of left-spherical matrix variate elliptical distributions and inverted hypergeometric type distributions with matrix arguments are then…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-18 Jose A. Diaz-Garcia , R. Gutierrez-Jaimez

In this paper, we provide a multiscale perspective on the problem of maximum marginal likelihood estimation. We consider and analyse a diffusion-based maximum marginal likelihood estimation scheme using ideas from multiscale dynamics. Our…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-11 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Michela Ottobre , Iain Souttar

Recent work has argued that classification losses utilizing softmax cross-entropy are superior not only for fixed-set classification tasks, but also by outperforming losses developed specifically for open-set tasks including few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Tyler R. Scott , Andrew C. Gallagher , Michael C. Mozer

The Laplace approximation (LA) has been proposed as a method for approximating the marginal likelihood of statistical models with latent variables. However, the approximate maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) based on the LA are often…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-21 Jeongseop Han , Youngjo Lee

The mean field spin glass model is analyzed by a combination of mathematically rigororous methods and a powerful Ansatz. The method exploited is general, and can be applied to others disordered mean field models such as, e.g., neural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco Baffioni , Francesco Rosati

In this paper optimal designs for regression problems with spherical predictors of arbitrary dimension are considered. Our work is motivated by applications in material sciences, where crystallographic textures such as the missorientation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Holger Dette , Maria Konstantinou , Kirsten Schorning , Josua Gösmann

We use Stein characterizations to obtain new moment-type estimators for the parameters of three classical spherical distributions (namely the Fisher-Bingham, the von Mises-Fisher, and the Watson distributions) in the i.i.d. case. This leads…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-05 Adrian Fischer , Robert E. Gaunt , Yvik Swan

We consider the statistical analysis of data on high-dimensional spheres and shape spaces. The work is of particular relevance to applications where high-dimensional data are available--a commonly encountered situation in many disciplines.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ian L. Dryden

Recent studies about cryptocurrency returns show that its distribution can be highly-peaked, skewed, and heavy-tailed, with a large excess kurtosis. To accommodate all these peculiarities, we propose the asymmetric Laplace scale mixture…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-27 Antonio Punzo , Luca Bagnato

We provide a general and rigorous proof for the strong consistency of maximum likelihood estimators of the cumulative distribution function of the mixing distribution and structural parameter under finite mixtures of location-scale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Guanfu Liu , Pengfei Li , Yukun Liu , Xiaolong Pu

Finite Sample Smeariness (FSS) has been recently discovered. It means that the distribution of sample Fr\'echet means of underlying rather unsuspicious random variables can behave as if it were smeary for quite large regimes of finite…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Benjamin Eltzner , Shayan Hundrieser , Stephan F. Huckemann

Sampling from circular distributions is a fundamental task in directional statistics. A key challenge in acceptance-rejection methods lies in selecting an efficient envelope density, as poor choices can lead to low acceptance rates and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-17 Surojit Biswas , Buddhananda Banerjee

We introduce an \verb|R| package, called \verb|MPS|, for computing the probability density function, computing the cumulative distribution function, computing the quantile function, simulating random variables, and estimating the parameters…

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Mixture distributions with dynamic weights are an efficient way of modeling loss data characterized by heavy tails. However, maximum likelihood estimation of this family of models is difficult, mostly because of the need to evaluate…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-11 Marco Bee

For a given wave function one can define a quantity $\mu_E$ having a meaning of its inverse spatial size. The Laplace transform of the distribution function $P(\mu_E)$ is calculated analytically for a 1D disordered sample with a finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 I. V. Kolokolov

The directional precision of the sample mean estimator was calculated analytically for the offset exponential and normal distributions in three-dimensional space both for a finite sample and for limiting cases. It was shown that the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-19 Yaroslav Nikitenko

Longitudinal Dispersion(LD) is the dominant process of scalar transport in natural streams. An accurate prediction on LD coefficient(Dl) can produce a performance leap in related simulation. The emerging machine learning(ML) techniques…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Yifeng Zhao , Pei Zhang , S. A. Galindo-Torres , Stan Z. Li