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We devise a {\sl non--perturbative} method, called {\sl Parametric Perturbation Theory} (PPT), which is alternative to the ordinary perturbation theory. The method relies on a principle of simplicity for the observable solutions, which are…

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We present a novel approach for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography based on regularized quadratic regression. Our contribution introduces a new formulation for the forward model in the form of a nonlinear integral…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Nick Polydorides , Alireza Aghasi , Eric L. Miller

I perform a further study regarding a renormalization-group (RG) issue -- which concerns a wide variety of the so-called perturbative power counting under effective field theories (EFT) -- as pointed out by A. M. Gasparyan and E. Epelbaum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 C. -J. Yang

English words and the outputs of many other natural processes are well-known to follow a Zipf distribution. Yet this thoroughly-established property has never been shown to help compress or predict these important processes. We show that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Moein Falahatgar , Ashkan Jafarpour , Alon Orlitsky , Venkatadheeraj Pichapati , Ananda Theertha Suresh

A perturbative approach for non renormalizable theories is developed. It is shown that the introduction of an extra expansion parameter allows one to get rid of divergences and express physical quantities as series with finite coefficients.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Gegelia , G. Japaridze , N. Kiknadze , K. Turashvili

This paper proposes a new design method for a stochastic control policy using a normalizing flow (NF). In reinforcement learning (RL), the policy is usually modeled as a distribution model with trainable parameters. When this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Taisuke Kobayashi , Takumi Aotani

A new perturbation theory is proposed for studying finite-size effects near critical point of the $\phi^4$ model with a one-component order parameter. The new approach is based on the techniques of generating functional and functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. B. Yang , X. Cai

The definitions and applications of Radial Distribution Function (RDF) and Structure Factor (SF) to study properties of aggregate are found in many papers and books. The approach adopted to calculate the RDF and the SF to determine the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-08-10 M. Cattani , M. C. Salvadori , F. S. Teixeira

In reinforcement learning (RL), aligning agent behavior with specific objectives typically requires careful design of the reward function, which can be challenging when the desired objectives are complex. In this work, we propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yuting Tang , Yivan Zhang , Johannes Ackermann , Yu-Jie Zhang , Soichiro Nishimori , Masashi Sugiyama

In this note, a new reciprocal resistance-based control barrier function (RRCBF) is developed to enhance the robustness of control barrier functions for disturbed affine nonlinear systems, without requiring explicit knowledge of disturbance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Xinming Wang , Zongyi Guo , Jianguo Guo , Jun Yang , Yunda Yan

In the stochastic frontier model, the composed error term consists of the measurement error and the inefficiency term. A general assumption is that the inefficiency term follows a truncated normal or exponential distribution. In a wide…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-08 Rouven Schmidt , Thomas Kneib

Stochastic optimization problems are generally known to be ill-conditioned to the form of the underlying uncertainty. A framework is introduced for optimal control problems with partial differential equations as constraints that is robust…

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We consider a coupled system of two singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations, with two small parameters $0< \epsilon \le \mu \le 1$, each multiplying the highest derivative in the equations. The presence of these parameters causes…

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In this paper the relation between nonanticipative rate distortion function (RDF) and Bayesian filtering theory is investigated using the topology of weak convergence of probability measures on Polish spaces. The relation is established via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

Distributional reinforcement learning improves performance by capturing environmental stochasticity, but a comprehensive theoretical understanding of its effectiveness remains elusive. In addition, the intractable element of the infinite…

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In this paper, we derive closed-form exact expressions for the main statistics of the ratio of squared alpha-mu random variables, which are of interest in many scenarios for future wireless networks where generalized distributions are more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-22 J. D. Vega Sánchez , D. P. Moya Osorio , E. E. Benitez Olivo , H. Alves , M. C. P. Paredes , L. Urquiza-Aguiar

In this paper we investigate the normal and the large fluctuations of additive functionals associated with a stochastic process under a general non-Poissonian resetting mechanism. Cumulative functionals of regenerative processes are very…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

We examine several zero-range potentials in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. The study of such potentials requires regularization and renormalization. We contrast physical results obtained using dimensional regularization and cutoff…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel R. Phillips , Silas R. Beane , Thomas D. Cohen

Calculating perturbation response properties of materials from first principles provides a vital link between theory and experiment, but is bottlenecked by the high computational cost. Here a general framework is proposed to perform density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 He Li , Zechen Tang , Jingheng Fu , Wen-Han Dong , Nianlong Zou , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is a promising alternative approach to the problem of electron correlation. Like standard density functional theory, it contains an unknown exchange-correlation functional, for which several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 N. N. Lathiotakis , Miguel A. L. Marques