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Non-deterministic measurements are common in real-world scenarios: the performance of a stochastic optimization algorithm or the total reward of a reinforcement learning agent in a chaotic environment are just two examples in which…

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This article introduces a new class of models for multiple networks. The core idea is to parametrize a distribution on labelled graphs in terms of a Fr\'{e}chet mean graph (which depends on a user-specified choice of metric or graph…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-09 Simón Lunagómez , Sofia C. Olhede , Patrick J. Wolfe

Although several nonparametric tests are available for testing population identical distributions or equal means in multiple groups problem, the Van der Waerden test has asymptotically the same efficiency as the classical one-way analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-07 Elsayed Elamir

We consider a Gaussian statistical model whose parameter space is given by the variances of random variables. Underlying this model we identify networks by interpreting random variables as sitting on vertices and their correlations as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Domenico Felice , Stefano Mancini , Marco Pettini

This paper fills the limited statistical understanding of Shapley values as a variable importance measure from a nonparametric (or smoothing) perspective. We introduce population-level \textit{Shapley curves} to measure the true variable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-04 Ratmir Miftachov , Georg Keilbar , Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Calculating the von Neumann entanglement entropy from experimental data is challenging due to its dependence on the complete wavefunction, forcing reliance on approximations such as classical mutual information (MI). We propose a machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Anas Saleh

Approximating complex probability densities is a core problem in modern statistics. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Variational Inference (VI), a popular method in machine learning that uses optimization techniques to estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ankush Ganguly , Samuel W. F. Earp

Closeness is one of the most studied characteristics of networks. Residual closeness is a very sensitive measure of graphs robustness. Additional closeness is a measure of growth potentials of networks. In this article we calculate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chavdar Dangalchev

Variational inference approximates the posterior distribution of a probabilistic model with a parameterized density by maximizing a lower bound for the model evidence. Modern solutions fit a flexible approximation with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-13 Joseph Sakaya , Arto Klami

Random geometric graphs are a popular choice for a latent points generative model for networks. Their definition is based on a sample of $n$ points $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ on the Euclidean sphere~$\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ which represents the latent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ernesto Araya , Yohann De Castro

This paper studies the problem of estimation from relative measurements in a graph, in which a vector indexed over the nodes has to be reconstructed from pairwise measurements of differences between its components associated to nodes…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Chiara Ravazzi , Nelson P. K. Chan , Paolo Frasca

We consider density estimators based on the nearest neighbors method applied to discrete point distibutions in spaces of arbitrary dimensionality. If the density is constant, the volume of a hypersphere centered at a random location is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-24 Przemek Wozniak , Andrzej Kruszewski

We analyse the eigenvectors of the adjacency matrix of a random inhomogeneous graph constructed from a specified degree sequence. We assume that the empirical degree sequence has bounded mean and variance. We show that near the edges of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Thomas Buc-d'Alché , Antti Knowles

In many applications, from sensor to social networks, gene regulatory networks or big data, observations can be represented as a signal defined over the vertices of a graph. Building on the recently introduced Graph Fourier Transform, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Mikhail Tsitsvero , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Deep neural networks have shown great achievements in solving complex problems. However, there are fundamental problems that limit their real world applications. Lack of measurable criteria for estimating uncertainty in the network outputs…

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While it is common practice in applied network analysis to report various standard network summary statistics, these numbers are rarely accompanied by uncertainty quantification. Yet any error inherent in the measurements underlying the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-06 Jinyuan Chang , Eric D. Kolaczyk , Qiwei Yao

Entropy and its various generalizations are important in many fields, including mathematical statistics, communication theory, physics and computer science, for characterizing the amount of information associated with a probability…

Quite often real-world networks can be thought of as being symmetric, in the abstract sense that vertices can be found to have similar or equivalent structural roles. However, traditional measures of symmetry in graphs are based on their…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Jefferson Elbert Simões , Daniel R. Figueiredo , Valmir C. Barbosa

Estimation of near-wall turbulence in channel flow from outer observations is investigated using adjoint-variational data assimilation. We first consider fully resolved velocity data, starting at a distance from the wall. By enforcing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Mengze Wang , Tamer A. Zaki

We examine the extent to which random samplings from the values of a random set, determine the distribution of the random set itself. We also comment on how, given the statistics of the sampling, to detect the distribution. Several methods…

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