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In the following article we provide an exposition of exact computational methods to perform parameter inference from partially observed network models. In particular, we consider the duplication attachment (DA) model which has a likelihood…

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Adaptive importance sampling is a powerful tool to sample from complicated target densities, but its success depends sensitively on the initial proposal density. An algorithm is presented to automatically perform the initialization using…

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Investigating critical phenomena or phase transitions is of high interest in physics and chemistry, for which Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, a crucial tool for numerically analyzing macroscopic properties of given systems, are often hindered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ankur Singha , Elia Cellini , Kim A. Nicoli , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Shinichi Nakajima

The Effective Sample Size (ESS) is an important measure of efficiency of Monte Carlo methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Importance Sampling (IS) techniques. In the IS context, an approximation $\widehat{ESS}$ of the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-27 L. Martino , V. Elvira , F. Louzada

The stability of statistical analysis is an important indicator for reproducibility, which is one main principle of scientific method. It entails that similar statistical conclusions can be reached based on independent samples from the same…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-01 Wei Sun , Xingye Qiao , Guang Cheng

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned to be an essential component of the paradigm for beyond 5G networks as it can potentially provide similar or higher array gains with much lower hardware cost and energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper proposes a method for estimating the norms of a system in a pure data-driven fashion based on their identified Impulse Response (IR) coefficients. The calculation of norms is briefly reviewed and the main expressions for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 L. V. Fiorio , C. L. Remes , L. Campestrini , Y. R. de Novaes

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to support parameter estimation in machine-type communications (MTC). We focus on a network where single-antenna sensors transmit spatially correlated measurements to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Sergi Liesegang , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

Inspired by the remarkable learning and prediction performance of deep neural networks (DNNs), we apply one special type of DNN framework, known as model-driven deep unfolding neural network, to reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Marco Di Renzo , Markku Juntti

Optimization problems with the objective function in the form of weighted sum and linear equality constraints are considered. Given that the number of local cost functions can be large as well as the number of constraints, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Sanja Rapajić , Luka Rutešić

We introduce $\Psi$-Sampler, an SMC-based framework incorporating pCNL-based initial particle sampling for effective inference-time reward alignment with a score-based generative model. Inference-time reward alignment with score-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Taehoon Yoon , Yunhong Min , Kyeongmin Yeo , Minhyuk Sung

We show that for any multiple-try Metropolis algorithm, one can always accept the proposal and evaluate the importance weight that is needed to correct for the bias without extra computational cost. This results in a general, convenient,…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-03 Guanxun Li , Aaron Smith , Quan Zhou

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing wireless communications through dense antenna arrays. Accurate channel estimation is critical to unlocking their full performance potential. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zijian Zhang , Mingyao Cui

We consider multi-draft speculative sampling, where the proposal sequences are sampled independently from different draft models. At each step, a token-level draft selection scheme takes a list of valid tokens as input and produces an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ashish Khisti , M. Reza Ebrahimi , Hassan Dbouk , Arash Behboodi , Roland Memisevic , Christos Louizos

Recent policy optimization approaches (Schulman et al., 2015a; 2017) have achieved substantial empirical successes by constructing new proxy optimization objectives. These proxy objectives allow stable and low variance policy learning, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Marcin B. Tomczak , Dongho Kim , Peter Vrancx , Kee-Eung Kim

We consider the problem of estimating expectations with respect to a target distribution with an unknown normalizing constant, and where even the unnormalized target needs to be approximated at finite resolution. This setting is ubiquitous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Kody J. H. Law , Neil Walton , Shangda Yang , Ajay Jasra

This study considers the estimation of the complementary cumulative distribution function of the occupation time (i.e., the time spent below a threshold) for a process governed by a stochastic differential equation. The focus is on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Eya Ben Amar , Nadhir Ben Rached , Raul Tempone

The Ideal Observer (IO) performance has been advocated when optimizing medical imaging systems for signal detection tasks. However, analytical computation of the IO test statistic is generally intractable. To approximate the IO test…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Weimin Zhou , Mark A. Anastasio

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in the presence of scattering objects. The MIMO transmitter and receiver, the RIS, and the scattering objects are modeled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 H. El Hassani , X. Qian , S. Jeong , N. S. Perović , M. Di Renzo , P. Mursia , V. Sciancalepore , X. Costa-Pérez

This Letter addresses the physics-consistent optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with mutual coupling (MC) and 1-bit-programmable RIS elements. This combination of constraints is typical of current prototypes but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Cheima Hammami , Luc Le Magoarou , Philipp del Hougne