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Regularized empirical risk minimization (rERM) has become important in data-intensive fields such as genomics and advertising, with stochastic gradient methods typically used to solve the largest problems. However, ill-conditioned…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Jingruo Sun , Zachary Frangella , Madeleine Udell

A self-consistent formulation is proposed to generalize the HF scheme with the incorporation of screening effects. For this purpose in a first step, an energy functional is defined by the mean value for the full Hamiltonian, not in a Slater…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-14 Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca

The Survival Energy Model (SEM), as originally introduced by Shimizu et al. (2020), is designed to characterize human bioenergetics by employing diffusion processes or inverse Gaussian processes. While parametric models have been employed…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-12 Daiki Mitsuta , Yasutaka Shimizu

We analyze the 2011 LHC Higgs data in the context of simplified new physics models addressing the naturalness problem. These models are expected to contain new particles with sizable couplings to the Higgs boson, which can easily modify the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Dean Carmi , Adam Falkowski , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky

In a physical design problem, the designer chooses values of some physical parameters, within limits, to optimize the resulting field. We focus on the specific case in which each physical design parameter is the ratio of two field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Guillermo Angeris , Jelena Vučković , Stephen Boyd

In the present work, we start from a minimal Hamiltonian for Fermi systems where the s-wave scattering is the only low energy constant at play. Many-Body Perturbative approach that is usually valid at rather low density is first discussed.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Antoine Boulet , Denis Lacroix

The trinification model is an interesting extension of the Standard Model (SM) based on the gauge group $SU(3)_C\times SU(3)_L\times SU(3)_R$. We study its low-energy phenomenology by constructing a low-energy effective field theory,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Jamil Hetzel , Berthold Stech

Recent highlights from the HERA experiments, Hermes, H1 and ZEUS, are reviewed and ideas for future analyses to fully exploit this unique data set are proposed. This document is a summary of a workshop on future physics with HERA data held…

A recent technique, proposed to alleviate the ``sign problem disease'', is discussed in details. As well known the ground state of a given Hamiltonian $H$ can be obtained by applying the imaginary time propagator $e^{-H \tau}$ to a given…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sorella , L. Capriotti

This paper considers a pair $(\mathbb{F},\tau)$, where $\mathbb{F}$ is a filtration representing the "public" flow of information which is available to all agents overtime, and $\tau$ is a random time which might not be an…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Tahir Choulli , Safa' Alsheyab

To be published in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 239 "Convection in Astrophysics" (ed. F. Kupka, I. W. Roxburgh, K. L. Chan). Content: 1. From Nice to Prague, 2. The triumph of 3-D simulations, 3. How to lower the cost - what else can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Paul Zahn

This paper deals with fast simulations of the haemodynamics in large arteries by considering a reduced model of the associated fluid-structure interaction problem, which in turn allows an additional reduction in terms of the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Claudia M. Colciago , Simone Deparis

This paper considers the use of recently proposed optimal transport-based multivariate test statistics, namely rank energy and its variant the soft rank energy derived from entropically regularized optimal transport, for the unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-17 Matthew Werenski , Shoaib Bin Masud , James M. Murphy , Shuchin Aeron

Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) algorithms are widely used in a variety of estimation and prediction tasks in signal-processing and machine learning applications. Despite their popularity, a theory that explains their statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-07 Hossein Taheri , Ramtin Pedarsani , Christos Thrampoulidis

We consider the Chance Constrained Model Predictive Control problem for polynomial systems subject to disturbances. In this problem, we aim at finding optimal control input for given disturbed dynamical system to minimize a given cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Ashkan Jasour , Constantino Lagoa

The availability of historical data related to electricity day-ahead prices and to the underlying price formation process is limited. In addition, the electricity market in Europe is facing a rapid transformation, which limits the…

Applications · Statistics 2023-06-27 Raffaele Sgarlato

A new method of deriving reduced models of Hamiltonian dynamical systems is developed using techniques from optimization and statistical estimation. Given a set of resolved variables that define a model reduction, the quasi-equilibrium…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Bruce Turkington , Petr Plechac

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

Performing thermodynamic tasks within finite time while minimizing thermodynamic costs is a central challenge in stochastic thermodynamics. Here, we develop a unified framework for optimizing the thermodynamic cost of performing various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Kaito Tojo , Rihito Nagase , Ken Funo , Takahiro Sagawa

The Higgs low-energy theorem gives a simple and elegant way to estimate the couplings of the Higgs boson to massless gluons and photons induced by loops of heavy particles. We extend this theorem to take into account possible nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 M. Gillioz , R. Grober , C. Grojean , M. Muhlleitner , E. Salvioni