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This paper continues investigations on the integral transforms of the Minkowski question mark function. In this work we finally establish the long-sought formula for the moments, which does not explicitly involve regular continued…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-14 Giedrius Alkauskas

In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. The measurements used are the statistical moments of the realizations of single point data $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Shubin Fu , Zhidong Zhang

In a nonlinear optical fiber communication (OFC) system with signal power much stronger than noise power, the noise field in the fiber can be described by linearized noise equation (LNE). In this case, the noise impact on the system…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Zhongxi Zhang , Liang Chen , Xiaoyi Bao

We give a new heuristic for all of the main terms in the integral moments of various families of primitive L-functions. The results agree with previous conjectures for the leading order terms. Our conjectures also have an almost identical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. B. Conrey , D. W. Farmer , J. P. Keating , M. O. Rubinstein , N. C. Snaith

We describe a simple method that produces automatically closed forms for the coefficients of continued fractions expansions of a large number of special functions. The function is specified by a non-linear differential equation and initial…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Sébastien Maulat , Bruno Salvy

The solution of QCD equations for generating functions of multiplicity distributions reveals new peculiar features of cumulant moments oscillating as functions of their rank. This prediction is supported by experimental data on $e^{+}e^{-},…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 I. M. Dremin

Moment restrictions and their conditional counterparts emerge in many areas of machine learning and statistics ranging from causal inference to reinforcement learning. Estimators for these tasks, generally called methods of moments, include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Heiner Kremer , Yassine Nemmour , Bernhard Schölkopf , Jia-Jie Zhu

Based on a recent development in the area of error control coding, we introduce the notion of convolutional factor graphs (CFGs) as a new class of probabilistic graphical models. In this context, the conventional factor graphs are referred…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Yongyi Mao , Frank Kschischang , Brendan J. Frey

Large deviation theory and instanton calculus for stochastic systems are widely used to gain insight into the evolution and probability of rare events. At its core lies the realization that rare events are, under the right circumstances,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Mnerh Alqahtani , Tobias Grafke

Through viewing out the literature, many generated distributions took a new special form of probability density function (PDF) in which it is written as a linear combination of n other distributions. Therefore, we define in this paper a new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Therar Kadri , Amina Halat

We propose a new approach for deriving probabilistic inequalities based on bounding likelihood ratios. We demonstrate that this approach is more general and powerful than the classical method frequently used for deriving concentration…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Xinjia Chen

This paper presents a framework designed to tackle a range of planning problems arise in manipulation, which typically involve complex geometric-physical reasoning related to contact and dynamic constraints. We introduce the Contact Factor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jeongmin Lee , Sunkyung Park , Minji Lee , Dongjun Lee

We develop a generalized method of moments (GMM) approach for fast parameter estimation in a new class of Dirichlet latent variable models with mixed data types. Parameter estimation via GMM has been demonstrated to have computational and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Shiwen Zhao , Barbara E. Engelhardt , Sayan Mukherjee , David B. Dunson

We apply general moment identities for Poisson stochastic integrals with random integrands to the computation of the moments of Markovian growth-collapse processes. This extends existing formulas for mean and variance available in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Nicolas Privault

In this work we propose a generalization of the Moment Guided Monte Carlo method developed in [11]. This approach permits to reduce the variance of the particle methods through a matching with a set of suitable macroscopic moment equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Giacomo Dimarco

Discrete-state stochastic models have become a well-established approach to describe biochemical reaction networks that are influenced by the inherent randomness of cellular events. In the last years severalmethods for accurately…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-03 Alexander Lück , Verena Wolf

We present a characterization of the null moments of the Complex Multivariate Normal Distribution with non-singular covariance matrix and we give closed-forms expressions for its non-null moments.

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-15 C. Fassino , G. Pistone , M. P. Rogantin

In non-asymptotic learning, variance-type parameters of sub-Gaussian distributions are of paramount importance. However, directly estimating these parameters using the empirical moment generating function (MGF) is infeasible. To address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-16 Huiming Zhang , Haoyu Wei , Guang Cheng

How can we generate samples from a conditional distribution that we never fully observe? This question arises across a broad range of applications in both modern machine learning and classical statistics, including image post-processing in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Anirban Chatterjee , Sayantan Choudhury , Rohan Hore

A general explicit form for generating functions for approximating fractional derivatives is derived. To achieve this, an equivalent characterisation for consistency and order of approximations established on a general generating function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 W. A. Gunarathna , H. M. Nasir , W. B. Daundasekera