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Efficiently sampling from un-normalized target distributions is a fundamental problem in scientific computing and machine learning. Traditional approaches such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) guarantee asymptotically unbiased samples…

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It was recently shown that the lossless compression of a single source $X^n$ is achievable with a notion of strong locality; any $X_i$ can be decoded from a constant number of compressed bits, with a vanishing in $n$ probability of error.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Shashank Vatedka , Venkat Chandar , Aslan Tchamkerten

The problem of variable-rate lossless data compression is considered, for codes with and without prefix constraints. Sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable compression rate of memoryless sources, when the excess-rate probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andreas Theocharous , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

When the experimental data set is contaminated, we usually employ robust alternatives to common location and scale estimators such as the sample median and Hodges-Lehmann estimators for location and the sample median absolute deviation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-11 Chanseok Park , Haewon Kim , Min Wang

In this paper will be presented new approach to entropy coding: family of generalizations of standard numeral systems which are optimal for encoding sequence of equiprobable symbols, into asymmetric numeral systems - optimal for freely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Jarek Duda

A quasi-entropy is constructed for tensors averaged by a density function on $SO(3)$ using the log-determinant of a covariance matrix. It serves as a substitution of the entropy for tensors derived from a constrained minimization that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Jie Xu

Deep generative models have shown promise for modeling metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), but existing approaches (1) rely on coarse-grained representations that assume fixed bond lengths and angles, and (2) neglect the MOF-adsorbate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Nayoung Kim , Honghui Kim , Sihyun Yu , Minkyu Kim , Seongsu Kim , Sungsoo Ahn

Bayesian inference for models that have an intractable partition function is known as a doubly intractable problem, where standard Monte Carlo methods are not applicable. The past decade has seen the development of auxiliary variable Monte…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-13 Richard G. Everitt , Dennis Prangle , Philip Maybank , Mark Bell

We develop a theory of generalization and scaling for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformers that cleanly separates \emph{active} per-input capacity from routing combinatorics. By conditioning on fixed routing patterns and union-bounding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Mansour Zoubeirou a Mayaki

Sampling a probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental problem in computational science and engineering. This task may be cast as an optimization problem over all probability measures, and an initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M. Stuart

Scalable sampling of molecular states in thermodynamic equilibrium is a long-standing challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann generators tackle this problem by pairing normalizing flows with importance sampling to obtain uncorrelated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Charlie B. Tan , Avishek Joey Bose , Chen Lin , Leon Klein , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong

We initiate the study on fault-tolerant spanners in hypergraphs and develop fast algorithms for their constructions. A fault-tolerant (FT) spanner preserves approximate distances under network failures, often used in applications like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jialin He , Nicholas Popescu , Chunjiang Zhu

One open problem in source coding is to characterize the limits of representing losslessly a non-identity discrete function of the data encoded independently by the encoders of several correlated sources with memory. This paper investigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Sheng Huang , Mikael Skoglund

In the adversarially robust streaming model, a stream of elements is presented to an algorithm and is allowed to depend on the output of the algorithm at earlier times during the stream. In the classic insertion-only model of data streams,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

In this work, lossy distributed compression of pairs of correlated sources is considered. Conventionally, Shannon's random coding arguments -- using randomly generated unstructured codebooks whose blocklength is taken to be asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Two-source extractors aim to extract randomness from two independent sources of weak randomness. It has been shown that any two-source extractor which is secure against classical side information remains secure against quantum side…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Jakob Miller , Martin Sandfuchs , Carla Ferradini

Many entropy-conservative and entropy-stable (summarized as entropy-preserving) methods for hyperbolic conservation laws rely on Tadmor's theory for two-point entropy-preserving numerical fluxes and its higher-order extension via flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Marco Artiano , Hendrik Ranocha

Two widely-used computational paradigms for sublinear algorithms are using linear measurements to perform computations on a high dimensional input and using structured queries to access a massive input. Typically, algorithms in the former…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Amit Chakrabarti , Manuel Stoeckl

In this work, we present an adaptive unfitted finite element scheme that combines the aggregated finite element method with parallel adaptive mesh refinement. We introduce a novel scalable distributed-memory implementation of the resulting…

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