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Presently, the main methods for describing a non-equilibrium charge-transporting steady state are based on time-evolving it from the initial zero-current situation. An alternative class of theories would give the statistical non-equilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bokes , H. Mera , R. W. Godby

Inference in models where the parameter is defined by moment inequalities is of interest in many areas of economics. This paper develops a new method for improving the performance of generalized moment selection (GMS) testing procedures in…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-08-26 Rami V. Tabri , Christopher D. Walker

This work develops compressive sampling strategies for computing the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) from heavily subsampled or output-projected data. The resulting DMD eigenvalues are equal to DMD eigenvalues from the full-state data. It…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Steven L. Brunton , Joshua L. Proctor , J. Nathan Kutz

We consider stochastic dynamics of lattice systems with finite local state space, possibly at low temperature, and possibly non-reversible. We assume the additional regularity properties on the dynamics: a) There is at least one stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Benedikt Jahnel , Christof Kuelske

Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

Sampling from flat modes in discrete spaces is a crucial yet underexplored problem. Flat modes represent robust solutions and have broad applications in combinatorial optimization and discrete generative modeling. However, existing sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Pinaki Mohanty , Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Ruqi Zhang

A simplified thermodynamic approach of the incompressible 2D Euler equation is considered based on the conservation of energy, circulation and microscopic enstrophy. Statistical equilibrium states are obtained by maximizing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-12 A. Naso , P. H. Chavanis , B. Dubrulle

The gravitational potential and the gravitational rotation field generated by a thin-disk mass distribution with exponential density are considered in the case when the force between any two mass elements is not the usual Newtonian one, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Rodrigo-Blanco

Steady state distribution functions can be used to calculate stability conditions for modes, radiation energy losses, and particle loss rates. Heuristic analytic approximations to these distributions can capture key behaviors of the true…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Greta X. Li , Elijah J. Kolmes , Ian E. Ochs , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We consider the problem of compressed sensing and of (real-valued) phase retrieval with random measurement matrix. We derive sharp asymptotics for the information-theoretically optimal performance and for the best known polynomial algorithm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Benjamin Aubin , Bruno Loureiro , Antoine Baker , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-01 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Yuanjun Gao , John P. Cunningham

Joint pedestrian trajectory prediction has long grappled with the inherent unpredictability of human behaviors. Recent investigations employing variants of conditional diffusion models in trajectory prediction have exhibited notable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Haotian Lin , Yixiao Wang , Mingxiao Huo , Chensheng Peng , Zhiyuan Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

We derive a novel chain rule for a family of channel conditional entropies, covering von Neumann and sandwiched R\'{e}nyi entropies. In the process, we show that these channel conditional entropies are equal to their regularized version,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Amir Arqand , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

The issue of discrete probability estimation for samples of small size is addressed in this study. The maximum likelihood method often suffers over-fitting when insufficient data is available. Although the Bayesian approach can avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Takashi Isozaki

The field of complex networks studies a wide variety of interacting systems by representing them as networks. To understand their properties and mutual relations, the randomisation of network connections is a commonly used tool. However,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-18 Noam Abadi , Franco Ruzzenenti

Thermodynamic extensivity is commonly introduced as a postulate -- the homogeneity of degree one in thermodynamic potentials. We provide a constructive derivation of this property from microscopic conditions on the pair potential, without…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Bob Osano

We present a provably stable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with artificial compressibility and variable density. Stability proofs, which include boundary conditions, that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Juan Manzanero , Gonzalo Rubio , David A Kopriva , Esteban Ferrer , Eusebio Valero

We present a strategy to construct guiding distribution functions (GDFs) based on variance minimization. Auxiliary dynamics via GDFs mitigates the exponential growth of variance as a function of bias in Monte Carlo estimators of large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-22 Ushnish Ray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

This is the first of a series of papers dedicated to unveil the mass composition and dynamical structure of a sample of flattened early type galaxies in the Coma cluster. We describe our modifications to the Schwarzschild code of Richstone…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Thomas , R. P. Saglia , R. Bender , D. Thomas , K. Gebhardt , J. Magorrian , D. Richstone

We study the increase in per-sample differential entropy rate of random sequences and processes after being passed through a non minimum-phase (NMP) discrete-time, linear time-invariant (LTI) filter G. For such filters and random processes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Milan S. Derpich , Matías Müller , Jan Østergaard