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Comparing probability distributions is a core challenge across the natural, social, and computational sciences. Existing methods, such as Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), struggle in high-dimensional and non-compact domains. Here we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Logan S. McCarty

A novel algorithm for the computation of the quadratic numerical range is presented and exemplified yielding much better results in less time compared to the random vector sampling method. Furthermore, a bound on the probability for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Birgit Jacob , Lukas Vorberg , Christian Wyss

Fractional statistical moments are utilized for various tasks of uncertainty quantification, including the estimation of probability distributions. However, an estimation of fractional statistical moments of costly mathematical models by…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-05 Lukáš Novák , Marcos Valdebenito , Matthias Faes

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) has been proposed as a class of hardware-friendly error suppression techniques. While QEM has been primarily studied for mitigating errors in the estimation of expectation values of observables, recent works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Rion Shimazu , Suguru Endo , Shigeo Hakkaku , Shinobu Saito

In computational and applied statistics, it is of great interest to get fast and accurate calculation for the distributions of the quadratic forms of Gaussian random variables. This paper presents a novel approximation strategy that…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Hong Zhang , Judong Shen , Zheyang Wu

Bayesian probabilistic numerical methods are a set of tools providing posterior distributions on the output of numerical methods. The use of these methods is usually motivated by the fact that they can represent our uncertainty due to…

Computation · Statistics 2018-08-01 Xiaoyue Xi , François-Xavier Briol , Mark Girolami

We present a novel probabilistic finite element method (FEM) for the solution and uncertainty quantification of elliptic partial differential equations based on random meshes, which we call random mesh FEM (RM-FEM). Our methodology allows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Assyr Abdulle , Giacomo Garegnani

This paper introduces quantum computing methods for Monte Carlo simulations in power systems which are expected to be exponentially faster than their classical computing counterparts. Monte Carlo simulations is a fundamental method, widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Emilie Jong , Brynjar Sævarsson , Hjörtur Jóhannsson , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Quantum phase estimation is one of the key algorithms in the field of quantum computing, but up until now, only approximate expressions have been derived for the probability of error. We revisit these derivations, and find that by ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-13 James M. Chappell , Max A. Lohe , Lorenz von Smekal , Azhar Iqbal , Derek Abbott

We present a quantum algorithm for efficiently sampling transformed Gaussian random fields on $d$-dimensional domains, based on an enhanced version of the classical moving average method. Pointwise transformations enforcing boundedness are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

Aussel et al. (J Optim Theory Appl 170 818-837 2016) introduced the concept of projected solutions for the quasi-variational inequalities with a non-self constraint map, that is, the case where the constraint map may take values outside the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Didier Aussel , Jauny , Asrifa Sultana , Shivani Valecha

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is the key subroutine of several quantum computing algorithms as well as a central ingredient in quantum computational chemistry and quantum simulation. While QPE strategies have focused on the estimation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Valentin Gebhart , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

This work is concerned with kinetic equations with velocity of constant magnitude. We propose a quadrature method of moments based on the Poisson kernel, called Poisson-EQMOM. The derived moment closure systems are well defined for all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Yihong Chen , Qian Huang , Wen-An Yong , Ruixi Zhang

We present an algorithmic approach to estimate the value distributions of random variables of probabilistic loops whose statistical moments are (partially) known. Based on these moments, we apply two statistical methods, Maximum Entropy and…

The author uses a Stein-type covariance identity to obtain moment estimators for the parameters of the quadratic polynomial subfamily of Pearson distributions. The asymptotic distribution of the estimators is obtained, and normality and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Giorgos Afendras

For approximate inference in the generalized quadratic equations model, many state-of-the-art algorithms lack any prior knowledge of the target signal structure, exhibits slow convergence, and can not handle any analytic prior knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Huimin Zhu

In this study, we give an extension of Montanaro's arXiv/archive:1504.06987 quantum Monte Carlo method, tailored for computing expected values of random variables that exhibit infinite variance. This addresses a challenge in analyzing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jose Blanchet , Mario Szegedy , Guanyang Wang

We propose a fast algorithm for evaluating the moments of Bingham distribution. The calculation is done by piecewise rational approximation, where interpolation and Gaussian integrals are utilized. Numerical test shows that the algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Yixiang Luo , Jie Xu , Pingwen Zhang

Quasi-Monte Carlo (qMC) methods are a powerful alternative to classical Monte-Carlo (MC) integration. Under certain conditions, they can approximate the desired integral at a faster rate than the usual Central Limit Theorem, resulting in…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-11-22 Jean-Jacques Forneron

We propose a new approach for estimating the parameters of a probability distribution. It consists on combining two new methods of estimation. The first is based on the definition of a new distance measuring the difference between…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-12-30 Ahmed Guellil , Tewfik Kernane
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