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Starting from the Avellaneda-Stoikov framework, we consider a market maker who wants to optimally set bid/ask quotes over a finite time horizon, to maximize her expected utility. The intensities of the orders she receives depend not only on…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2020-06-29 Diego Zabaljauregui , Luciano Campi

Estimation frameworks for statistical inference are preferred to hypothesis testing when quantifying uncertainty and precise estimation are more valuable than binary decisions about statistical significance. Study design for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-29 Luke Hagar , Nathaniel T. Stevens

In this paper, we identify partial correlation information structures that allow for simpler reformulations in evaluating the maximum expected value of mixed integer linear programs with random objective coefficients. To this end, assuming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-25 Divya Padmanabhan , Karthik Natarajan , Karthyek R. A. Murthy

Unsupervised learning plays an important role in many fields, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neuroscience. Compared to static data, methods for extracting low-dimensional structure for dynamic data are lagging. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Rui Meng , Tianyi Luo , Kristofer Bouchard

In this chapter, we study the consistency of the value of information$\unicode{x2014}$a semantic metric that claims to determine the right piece of information in networked control systems tasks$\unicode{x2014}$in a lossy and delayed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Touraj Soleymani , John S. Baras , Siyi Wang , Sandra Hirche , Karl H. Johansson

Decision making in modern stochastic systems, including e-commerce platforms, financial markets and healthcare systems, has evolved into a multifaceted process that combines information acquisition and adaptive information sources. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Renyuan Xu , Thaleia Zariphopoulou , Luhao Zhang

Many partial identification problems can be characterized by the optimal value of a function over a set where both the function and set need to be estimated by empirical data. Despite some progress for convex problems, statistical inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-31 Matthew Tudball , Rachael Hughes , Kate Tilling , Jack Bowden , Qingyuan Zhao

A key feature of many developmental systems is their ability to self-organize spatial patterns of functionally distinct cell fates. To ensure proper biological function, such patterns must be established reproducibly, by controlling and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 David B. Brückner , Gašper Tkačik

In this paper, we study an information-theoretic problem of designing a fair representation under a bounded point-wise statistical (demographic) parity constraint. More specifically, an agent uses some useful data (database) $X$ to solve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Amirreza Zamani , Ayfer Özgür , Mikael Skoglund

The accessible information and the informational power quantify the amount of information extractable from a quantum ensemble and by a quantum measurement, respectively. So-called spherical quantum 2-designs constitute a class of ensembles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Michele Dall'Arno

We study a dynamic information design problem in a finite-horizon setting consisting of two strategic and long-term optimizing agents, namely a principal (he) and a detector (she). The principal observes the evolution of a Markov chain that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Farzaneh Farhadi , Demosthenis Teneketzis

Conformal Prediction (CP) is a distribution-free uncertainty estimation framework that constructs prediction sets guaranteed to contain the true answer with a user-specified probability. Intuitively, the size of the prediction set encodes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Alvaro H. C. Correia , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Christos Louizos , Arash Behboodi

In this paper, we propose a robust design framework for IRS-aided communication systems in the presence of user location uncertainty. By jointly designing the transmit beamforming vector at the BS and phase shifts at the IRS, we aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Zhaoyang Zhang

Kernel random matrices have attracted a lot of interest in recent years, from both practical and theoretical standpoints. Most of the theoretical work so far has focused on the case were the data is sampled from a low-dimensional structure.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-12 Noureddine El Karoui

The concept of feature selectivity in sensory signal processing can be formalized as dimensionality reduction: in a stimulus space of very high dimensions, neurons respond only to variations within some smaller, relevant subspace. But if…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-15 Kanaka Rajan , William Bialek

We study a class of stochastic optimal design problems for elliptic partial differential equations in divergence form, where the coefficients represent mixtures of two conducting materials. The objective is to minimize a generalized risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Amal Alphonse , Petar Kunštek , Marko Vrdoljak

We propose an effect called information constraint which is characterized by the existence of different decay rates of signal strengths propagating along opposite directions. It is an intrinsic property of a type of open quantum system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Chun-Hui Liu , Shu Chen

In this paper, we investigate a bistatic integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, consisting of a multi-antenna base station (BS), a multi-antenna sensing receiver, a single-antenna communication user (CU), and a point target to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Xianxin Song , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Recently, the partial information decomposition emerged as a promising framework for identifying the meaningful components of the information contained in a joint distribution. Its adoption and practical application, however, have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Ryan G. James , Jeffrey Emenheiser , James P. Crutchfield

Standard random projection techniques typically operate as a black box, mapping high-dimensional structures directly to a lower-dimensional space where the target dimension must be specified a \textit{priori}. To address scenarios where the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Nazanin Mirhosseini