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This paper provides convergence analysis for the approximation of a class of path-dependent functionals underlying a continuous stochastic process. In the first part, given a sequence of weak convergent processes, we provide a sufficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Qingshuo Song , George Yin , Qing Zhang

The problem is sequence prediction in the following setting. A sequence $x_1,...,x_n,...$ of discrete-valued observations is generated according to some unknown probabilistic law (measure) $\mu$. After observing each outcome, it is required…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Daniil Ryabko

Combining fractional calculus and the Rough Path Theory we study the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions to evolutions equations driven by a H\"older continuous function with H\"older exponent in $(1/3,1/2)$. Our stochastic integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-06 María J. Garrido-Atienza , Kening Lu , Björn Schmalfuss

Roadmaps constructed by many sampling-based motion planners coincide, in the absence of obstacles, with standard models of random geometric graphs (RGGs). Those models have been studied for several decades and by now a rich body of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

We address the reachability problem for continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems. Our objective is to present a unified framework that characterizes the reachable set of a dynamic system in the presence of both stochastic disturbances and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Saber Jafarpour , Zishun Liu , Yongxin Chen

The Random Walks (RW) algorithm is one of the most e - cient and easy-to-use probabilistic segmentation methods. By combining contrast terms with prior terms, it provides accurate segmentations of medical images in a fully automated manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Pierre-Yves Baudin , Danny Goodman , Puneet Kumar , Noura Azzabou , Pierre G. Carlier , Nikos Paragios , M. Pawan Kumar

Applied to statistical physics models, the random cost algorithm enforces a Random Walk (RW) in energy (or possibly other thermodynamic quantities). The dynamics of this procedure is distinct from fixed weight updates. The probability for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bernd A. Berg , Ulrich H. E. Hansmann

Many models for complex phenomena use a model for strongly-interacting elements on a small scale to generate larger-scale simulations of some aspects of experimental realizations. These models may be agent-based (as in the case of discrete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-10 Jeffrey D. Picka

We introduce probabilistic frames to study finite frames whose elements are chosen at random. While finite tight frames generalize orthonormal bases by allowing redundancy, independent, uniformly distributed points on the sphere…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-11 Martin Ehler

We consider stochastic processes on complete, locally compact tree-like metric spaces $(T,r)$ on their "natural scale" with boundedly finite speed measure $\nu$. Given a triple $(T,r,\nu)$ such a speed-$\nu$ motion on $(T,r)$ can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Siva Athreya , Wolfgang Löhr , Anita Winter

We present a framework for solving time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) in the spirit of the random feature method. The numerical solution is constructed using a space-time partition of unity and random feature functions.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Jingrun Chen , Weinan E , Yixin Luo

The purpose of this paper is to give a selective survey on recent progress in random metric theory and its applications to conditional risk measures. This paper includes eight sections. Section 1 is a longer introduction, which gives a…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2011-03-18 Tiexin Guo

We consider three shortest path problems in directed graphs with random arc lengths. For the first and the second problems, a risk measure is involved. While the first problem consists in finding a path minimizing this risk measure, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Axel Parmentier , Frédéric Meunier

Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical accuracy bounds. They serve as an alternative approach to standard neural networks since they can represent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Abolfazl Hashemi , Hayden Schaeffer , Robert Shi , Ufuk Topcu , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

The central limit theorem is, with the strong law of large numbers, one of the two fundamental limit theorems in probability theory. Benjamin Jourdain and Alvin Tse have extended to non-linear functionals of the empirical measure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Roberta Flenghi , Benjamin Jourdain

We provide a deterministic $\tilde{O}(\log N)$-space algorithm for estimating random walk probabilities on undirected graphs, and more generally Eulerian directed graphs, to within inverse polynomial additive error…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-14 AmirMahdi Ahmadinejad , Jonathan Kelner , Jack Murtagh , John Peebles , Aaron Sidford , Salil Vadhan

Spaces of convex and concave functions appear naturally in theory and applications. For example, convex regression and log-concave density estimation are important topics in nonparametric statistics. In stochastic portfolio theory, concave…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Peter Baxendale , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

Stochastic processes play a key role for modeling a huge variety of transport problems out of equilibrium, with manifold applications throughout the natural and social sciences. To formulate models of stochastic dynamics the conventional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-25 Massimiliano Giona , Andrea Cairoli , Rainer Klages

Topological measurements are increasingly being accepted as an important tool for quantifying complex structures. In many applications, these structures can be expressed as nodal domains of real-valued functions and are obtained only…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Konstantin Mischaikow , Thomas Wanner

The path probability of a particle undergoing stochastic motion is studied by the use of functional technique, and the general formula is derived for the path probability distribution functional. The probability of finding paths inside a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-16 Masayuki Hattori , Sumiyoshi Abe