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The Wasserstein distance between two probability measures on a metric space is a measure of closeness with applications in statistics, probability, and machine learning. In this work, we consider the fundamental question of how quickly the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Jonathan Weed , Francis Bach

We consider the Gaussian approximation for functionals of a Poisson process that are expressible as sums of region-stabilizing (determined by the points of the process within some specified regions) score functions and provide a bound on…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Chinmoy Bhattacharjee , Ilya Molchanov

We propose of an improved version of the ubiquitous symmetrization inequality making use of the Wasserstein distance between a measure and its reflection in order to quantify the symmetry of the given measure. An empirical bound on this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Adam B Kashlak

Group-invariant probability distributions appear in many data-generative models in machine learning, such as graphs, point clouds, and images. In practice, one often needs to estimate divergences between such distributions. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Behrooz Tahmasebi , Stefanie Jegelka

We develop an analog for shifted primes of the Kubilius model of prime factors of integers. We prove a total variation distance estimate for the difference between the model and actual prime factors of shifted primes, and apply it to show…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Kevin Ford

We establish presumably optimal rates of normal convergence with respect to the Kolmogorov distance for a large class of geometric functionals of marked Poisson and binomial point processes on general metric spaces. The rates are valid…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Raphaël Lachièze-Rey , Matthias Schulte , J. E. Yukich

We revisit strong approximation theory from a new perspective, culminating in a proof of the Koml\'os-Major-Tusn\'ady embedding theorem for the simple random walk. The proof is almost entirely based on a series of soft arguments and easy…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-05 Sourav Chatterjee

Grouped data are commonly encountered in applications. The Bernstein polynomial model is proposed as an approximate model in this paper for estimating a univariate density function based on grouped data. The coefficients of the Bernstein…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-21 Zhong Guan

In this paper we establish an estimate for the rate of convergence of the Krasnosel'ski\v{\i}-Mann iteration for computing fixed points of non-expansive maps. Our main result settles the Baillon-Bruck conjecture [3] on the asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Roberto Cominetti , José A. Soto , José Vaisman

We derive normal approximation results for a class of stabilizing functionals of binomial or Poisson point process, that are not necessarily expressible as sums of certain score functions. Our approach is based on a flexible notion of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Zhaoyang Shi , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Wolfgang Polonik

Let $\BS_1,...,\BS_n$ be independent identically distributed random variables each having the standardized Bernoulli distribution with parameter $p\in(0,1)$. Let $m_*(p):=(1+p+2p^2)/(2\sqrt{p-p^2}+4p^2)$ if $0<p\le 1/2$ and $m_*(p):=1$ if…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-23 Iosif Pinelis

The analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) system has attracted growing interests in recent years. In this work, we provide an optimal rate convergence analysis and error estimate for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Jie Ding , Cheng Wang , Shenggao Zhou

Asymptotics of the variances of many cost measures in random digital search trees are often notoriously messy and involved to obtain. A new approach is proposed to facilitate such an analysis for several shape parameters on random symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-04 Hsien-Kuei Hwang , Michael Fuchs , Vytas Zacharovas

Let $b(x)$ be the probability that a sum of independent Bernoulli random variables with parameters $p_1, p_2, p_3, \ldots \in [0,1)$ equals $x$, where $\lambda := p_1 + p_2 + p_3 + \cdots$ is finite. We prove two inequalities for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Lutz Duembgen , Jon A. Wellner

Two long-standing problems with the post-Newtonian approximation for isolated slowly-moving systems in general relativity are: (i) the appearance at high post-Newtonian orders of divergent Poisson integrals, casting a doubt on the soundness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Olivier Poujade , Luc Blanchet

Consider a graph on randomly scattered points in an arbitrary space, with two points $x,y$ connected with probability $\phi(x,y)$. Suppose the number of points is large but the mean number of isolated points is $O(1)$. We give general…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Mathew D. Penrose

Dependent rounding is a useful technique for optimization problems with hard budget constraints. This framework naturally leads to \emph{negative correlation} properties. However, what if an application naturally calls for dependent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Jarosław Byrka , Thomas Pensyl , Bartosz Rybicki , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

Bernstein polynomial approximation to a continuous function has a slower rate of convergence as compared to other approximation methods. "The fact seems to have precluded any numerical application of Bernstein polynomials from having been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Venanzio Cichella , Isaac Kaminer , Claire Walton , Naira Hovakimyan , Antonio Pascoal

We use Stein's method to obtain a bound on the distance between scaled $p$-dimensional random walks and a $p$-dimensional (correlated) Brownian Motion. We consider dependence schemes including those in which the summands in scaled sums are…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Mikołaj J. Kasprzak

The paper is concerned with approximating the distribution of a sum W of n integer valued random variables Y_i, whose distributions depend on the state of an underlying Markov chain X. The approximation is in terms of a translated Poisson…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-06 A. D. Barbour , Torgny Lindvall