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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 K. A. Marsh , A. P. Whitworth , O. Lomax

A normalizing flow models a complex probability density as an invertible transformation of a simple base density. Flows based on either coupling or autoregressive transforms both offer exact density evaluation and sampling, but rely on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Conor Durkan , Artur Bekasov , Iain Murray , George Papamakarios

A normalizing flow models a complex probability density as an invertible transformation of a simple density. The invertibility means that we can evaluate densities and generate samples from a flow. In practice, autoregressive flow-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Conor Durkan , Artur Bekasov , Iain Murray , George Papamakarios

We derive an analytical theory of the PDF of density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence in the presence of gravity in star-forming clouds. The theory is based on a rigorous derivation of a combination of the Navier-Stokes continuity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Etienne Jaupart , Gilles Chabrier

We performed a numerical experiment designed for core formation in a self-gravitating, magnetically supercritical, supersonically turbulent, isothermal cloud. A density probability distribution function (PDF) averaged over a converged…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Wankee Cho , Jongsoo Kim

The recently developed "Data Set Diagonalization" method (DSD) is applied to measure compatibility of the data sets that are used to determine parton distribution functions (PDFs). Discrepancies among the experiments are found to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-22 Jon Pumplin

Context: Statistical properties of the cosmic density fields are to a large extent encoded in the shape of the one-point density probability distribution functions (PDF). In order to successfully exploit such observables, a detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Francis Bernardeau

We investigate the mass function of cold, dusty clumps in 11 low- and high-mass star-forming regions. Using a homogeneous fitting technique, we analyze the shape of each region's clump mass function and examine the commonalities among them.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael A. Reid , Christine D. Wilson

We develop a new computational framework to solve the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the flow of the joint probability density functions (PDFs) in continuous-time stochastic nonlinear systems. The need for computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

In Divide & Recombine (D&R), big data are divided into subsets, each analytic method is applied to subsets, and the outputs are recombined. This enables deep analysis and practical computational performance. An innovate D\&R procedure is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-17 Qi Liu , Anindya Bhadra , William S. Cleveland

Probability Density Estimation (PDE) is a multivariate discrimination technique based on sampling signal and background densities defined by event samples from data or Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations in a multi-dimensional phase space. In this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-07-22 Dominik Dannheim , Tancredi Carli , Karl-Johan Grahn , Peter Speckmayer , Alexander Voigt

The one-point probability distribution function (PDF) is a powerful summary statistic for non-Gaussian cosmological fields, such as the weak lensing (WL) convergence reconstructed from galaxy shapes or cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Leander Thiele , J. Colin Hill , Kendrick M. Smith

This study debuts a new spline dimensional decomposition (SDD) for uncertainty quantification analysis of high-dimensional functions, including those endowed with high nonlinearity and nonsmoothness, if they exist, in a proficient manner.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Sharif Rahman , Ramin Jahanbin

Diffusion models are a powerful framework for tackling ill-posed problems, with recent advancements extending their use to point cloud upsampling. Despite their potential, existing diffusion models struggle with inefficiencies as they map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Lei Li

We present an investigation of the theoretical uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) due to missing higher-order corrections in the perturbative predictions used in the fit, and their relationship to the uncertainties in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-02 L. A. Harland-Lang , R. S. Thorne

Power-law probability density function (PDF) plays a key role in both subdiffusion and L\'{e}vy flights. However, sometimes because of the finite of the lifespan of the particles or the boundedness of the physical space, tempered power-law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Yanyan Yu , Weihua Deng , Yujiang Wu , Jing Wu

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

We develop a dynamical density functional theory based model for the drying of colloidal films on planar surfaces. We consider mixtures of two different sizes of hard-sphere colloids. Depending on the solvent evaporation rate and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-28 Boshen He , Ignacio Martin-Fabiani , Roland Roth , Gyula I. Tóth , Andrew J. Archer

We present an analysis of the relationship between the orientation of magnetic fields and filaments that form in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of cluster-forming, turbulent molecular cloud clumps. We examine simulated cloud clumps with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz , Helen Kirk

We calculate the one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density in non-linear regime of the gravitational evolution. Under the local approximation that the evolution of cosmic fluid fields can be characterized by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya