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Discrete entropy estimation is a classic information theory problem, wherein the average information content of a discrete random variable is estimated from samples alone. Naive approaches, such as the plugin method, fail to account for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Lucas H. McCabe , H. Howie Huang

We present new methodologies for Bayesian inference on the rate parameters of a discretely observed continuous-time Markov jump processes with a countably infinite state space. The usual method of choice for inference, particle Markov chain…

Computation · Statistics 2022-06-22 Chris Sherlock , Andrew Golightly

Equation discovery, also known as symbolic regression, is a type of automated modeling that discovers scientific laws, expressed in the form of equations, from observed data and expert knowledge. Deterministic grammars, such as context-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jure Brence , Ljupčo Todorovski , Sašo Džeroski

With the ever-increasing quantity and variety of data worldwide, the Web has become a rich repository of mathematical formulae. This necessitates the creation of robust and scalable systems for Mathematical Information Retrieval, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Richard Zanibbi , Kenny Davila , Andrew Kane , Frank Tompa

We study a problem of finding good approximations to Euler's constant $\gamma=\lim_{n\to\infty}S_n,$ where $S_n=\sum_{k=1}^n\frac{1}{n}-\log(n+1),$ by linear forms in logarithms and harmonic numbers. In 1995, C. Elsner showed that slow…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Kh. Hessami Pilehrood , T. Hessami Pilehrood

Making use of a newly developed package in the computer mathematics system SageMath, we show how to perform a full asymptotic analysis of certain types of sums that occur frequently in combinatorics, including explicit error bounds. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Benjamin Hackl , Stephan Wagner

This study investigates the use of symbolic computation in Matrix Structural Analysis (MSA) for continuous beams, leveraging the MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox. By employing symbolic MSA, analytical expressions for displacements, support…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Vagelis Plevris , Afaq Ahmad

Even though Zaremba's conjecture remains open, Bourgain and Kontorovich solved the problem for a full density subset. Nevertheless, there are only a handful of explicit sequences known to satisfy the strong version of the conjecture, all of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Elias Dubno

Estimating the diagonal entries of a matrix, that is not directly accessible but only available as a linear operator in the form of a computer routine, is a common necessity in many computational applications, especially in image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Marco Selig , Niels Oppermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

Conjecturing formulas and other symbolic relations occurs frequently in number theory and combinatorics. If we could automate conjecturing, we could benefit not only from speeding up, but also from finding conjectures previously out of our…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Nikola Adžaga

The aim of the paper is to relate computational and arithmetic questions about Euler's constant $\gamma$ with properties of the values of the $q$-logarithm function, with natural choice of $q$. By these means, we generalize a classical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Jonathan Sondow , Wadim Zudilin

The On-Line Encyclopedia Of Integer Sequences , that wonderful resource that most combinatorialists, and many other mathematicians and scientists, use at least once a day, is a treasure trove of mathematical information, and, one of its…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Shalosh B. Ekhad , Mingjia Yang , Doron Zeilberger

Scaling inference compute in large language models (LLMs) through repeated sampling consistently increases the coverage (fraction of problems solved) as the number of samples increases. We conjecture that this observed improvement is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Gal Yona , Or Honovich , Omer Levy , Roee Aharoni

The task of inferring logical formulas from examples has garnered significant attention as a means to assist engineers in creating formal specifications used in the design, synthesis, and verification of computing systems. Among various…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider

In this note, I present a simple PSLQ code for finding null linear combinations, with the best rational coefficients, of mathematical constants, within some prescribed precision. As an example, I explore approximate expressions for the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-28 F. M. S. Lima

Analogy has received attention as a form of inductive reasoning in the empirical sciences. However, its role in pure mathematics has received less consideration. This paper provides an account of how an analogy with a more familiar…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Francesco Nappo , Nicolò Cangiotti , Caterina Sisti

We consider the problem of computing the satisfaction probability of a formula for stochastic models with parametric uncertainty. We show that this satisfaction probability is a smooth function of the model parameters. This enables us to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Luca Bortolussi , Dimitrios Milios , Guido Sanguinetti

Motivation: Sequence mapping is the cornerstone of modern genomics. However, most existing sequence mapping algorithms are insufficiently general. Results: We introduce context schemes: a method that allows the unambiguous recognition of a…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2015-08-28 Adam Novak , Yohei Rosen , David Haussler , Benedict Paten

\emph{Maximal ancestral graph} (MAGs) is a class of graphical model that extend the famous \emph{directed acyclic graph} in the presence of latent confounders. Most score-based approaches to learn the unknown MAG from empirical data rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-08 Zhongyi Hu , Robin Evans

We introduce MESSY estimation, a Maximum-Entropy based Stochastic and Symbolic densitY estimation method. The proposed approach recovers probability density functions symbolically from samples using moments of a Gradient flow in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Tony Tohme , Mohsen Sadr , Kamal Youcef-Toumi , Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou