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Often a screening or selection experiment targets a cell or tissue, which presents many possible molecular targets and identifies a correspondingly large number of ligands. We describe a statistical method to extract an estimate of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-04 Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Francis J. Schmidt

Consider the problem of learning the drift coefficient of a stochastic differential equation from a sample path. In this paper, we assume that the drift is parametrized by a high dimensional vector. We address the question of how long the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-10 José Bento , Morteza Ibrahimi , Andrea Montanari

We present an approach to approximate reachable sets for linear systems with bounded L-infinity controls in finite time. Our first approach investigates the boundaries of these sets and reveals an exact characterization for single-input,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Steven Nguyen , Jorge Cortés , Boris Kramer

Inspired by the work of Tsiamis et al. \cite{tsiamis2022learning}, in this paper we study the statistical hardness of learning to stabilize linear time-invariant systems. Hardness is measured by the number of samples required to achieve a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Xiong Zeng , Zexiang Liu , Zhe Du , Necmiye Ozay , Mario Sznaier

This paper is motivated by the theory of sequential dynamical systems, developed as a basis for a mathematical theory of computer simulation. It contains a classification of finite dynamical systems on binary strings, which are obtained by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luis Garcia , Abdul Salam Jarrah , Reinhard Laubenbacher

In this work, sample-based observability of linear discrete-time systems is studied. That is, we consider the case where the system output measurements are not available at every time instance. It is shown that some discrete-time systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Isabelle Krauss , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

We study a novel pure exploration problem: the $\epsilon$-Thresholding Bandit Problem (TBP) with fixed confidence in stochastic linear bandits. We prove a lower bound for the sample complexity and extend an algorithm designed for Best Arm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-16 Eduardo Ochoa Rivera , Ambuj Tewari

This paper proposes a method to compute finite abstractions that can be used for synthesizing robust hybrid control strategies for nonlinear systems. Most existing methods for computing finite abstractions utilize some global, analytical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Yinan Li , Jun Liu , Necmiye Ozay

Almost every software system provides configuration options to tailor the system to the target platform and application scenario. Often, this configurability renders the analysis of every individual system configuration infeasible. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Flávio Medeiros , Christian Kästner , Márcio Ribeiro , Rohit Gheyi , Sven Apel

In this paper we present a new error bound on sampling algorithms for frequent itemsets mining. We show that the new bound is asymptotically tighter than the state-of-art bounds, i.e., given the chosen samples, for small enough error…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Shiyu Ji , Kun Wan

Loss tomography has been studied for more than 10 years and a number of estimators have been proposed. The estimators can be divided into two classes: maximum likelihood and non-maximum likelihood. The maximum likelihood estimators rely on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Weiping Zhu

Whether a system is to be considered complex or not depends on how one searches for correlations. We propose a general scheme for calculation of entropies in lattice systems that has high flexibility in how correlations are successively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Torbjørn Helvik , Kristian Lindgren

Providing generalization guarantees for stochastic optimization algorithms remains a key challenge in learning theory. Recently, numerous works demonstrated the impact of the geometric properties of optimization trajectories on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mario Tuci , Lennart Bastian , Benjamin Dupuis , Nassir Navab , Tolga Birdal , Umut Şimşekli

In this paper we propose a methodology for deriving a model of a complex system by exploiting the information extracted from Topological Data Analysis. Central to our approach is the S[B] paradigm in which a complex system is represented by…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Emanuela Merelli , Matteo Rucco , Peter Sloot , Luca Tesei

The focus of this paper is on linear system identification in the setting where it is known that the underlying partially-observed linear dynamical system lies within a finite collection of known candidate models. We first consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Haoyuan Sun , Ali Jadbabaie

Tree ensembles are non-parametric methods widely recognized for their accuracy and ability to capture complex interactions. While these models excel at prediction, they are difficult to interpret and may fail to uncover useful relationships…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-01 Brian Liu , Rahul Mazumder , Peter Radchenko

We study the worst-case complexity of a non-monotone line search framework that covers a wide variety of known techniques published in the literature. In this framework, the non-monotonicity is controlled by a sequence of nonnegative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Geovani N. Grapiglia , Ekkehard W. Sachs

This paper presents a discrete-time nonlinear system identification method while satisfying the stability and safety properties of the system with high probability. An Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) is used with a Gaussian assumption on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Iman Salehi , Tyler Taplin , Ashwin P. Dani

A measure of complexity based on a probabilistic description of physical systems is proposed. This measure incorporates the main features of the intuitive notion of such a magnitude. It can be applied to many physical situations and to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Hector Mancini , Xavier Calbet

We study the problem of learning clusters of partially observed linear dynamical systems from multiple input-output trajectories. This setting is particularly relevant when there are limited observations (e.g., short trajectories) from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Maryann Rui , Munther A. Dahleh