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Fluctuation theorems have become an important tool in single molecule biophysics to measure free energy differences from non-equilibrium experiments. When significant coarse-graining or noise affect the measurements, the determination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-09 Reinaldo García-García , Sourabh Lahiri , David Lacoste

Consider a target moving at a constant velocity on a unit-circumference circle, starting at an arbitrary location. To acquire the target, any region of the circle can be probed to obtain a noisy measurement of the target's presence, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Yonatan Kaspi , Ofer Shayevitz , Tara Javidi

We study by simulation the effect of the diffusive motion of repressor molecules on the noise in mRNA and protein levels in the case of a repressed gene. We find that spatial fluctuations due to diffusion can drastically enhance the noise…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jeroen S. van Zon , Marco J. Morelli , Sorin Tanase-Nicola , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Noise is source of ambiguity for fuzzy systems. Although being an important aspect, the effects of noise in fuzzy modeling have been little investigated. This paper presents a set of tests using three well-known fuzzy modeling algorithms.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 P. J. Costa Branco , J. A. Dente

Sensor calibration is an indispensable task in any networked cyberphysical system. In this paper, we consider a sensor network plagued with offset errors, measuring a rank-1 signal subspace, where each sensor collects measurements under a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Raj Thilak Rajan

The capability to detect objects is a core part of autonomous driving. Due to sensor noise and incomplete data, perfectly detecting and localizing every object is infeasible. Therefore, it is important for a detector to provide the amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Gregory P. Meyer , Niranjan Thakurdesai

We consider Bayesian optimization of an expensive-to-evaluate black-box objective function, where we also have access to cheaper approximations of the objective. In general, such approximations arise in applications such as reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Matthias Poloczek , Jialei Wang , Peter I. Frazier

Artificial neural networks will always make a prediction, even when completely uncertain and regardless of the consequences. This obliviousness of uncertainty is a major obstacle towards their adoption in practice. Techniques exist,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Hans Weytjens , Jochen De Weerdt

Quantum noise is conventionally viewed as a fundamental obstacle in near-term quantum computing, motivating extensive error correction and mitigation strategies. We present numerical evidence that challenges this consensus. Through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Linghua Zhu , Yulong Dong , Ziyu Zhang , Xiaosong Li

We have developed a Bayesian optimization (BO) workflow that integrates intra-step noise optimization into automated experimental cycles. Traditional BO approaches in automated experiments focus on optimizing experimental trajectories but…

Inspired by the use of random projections in biological sensing systems, we present a new algorithm for processing data in classification problems. This is based on observations of the human brain and the fruit fly's olfactory system and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-28 Nina Dekoninck Bruhin , Bryn Davies

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for speech recognition that explicitly employs knowledge of the background environmental noise within a deep neural network acoustic model. A deep neural network is used to predict the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Suyoun Kim , Bhiksha Raj , Ian Lane

We study classification problems where features are corrupted by noise and where the magnitude of the noise in each feature is influenced by the resources allocated to its acquisition. This is the case, for example, when multiple sensors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Oran Richman , Shie Mannor

Numerous empirical evidence has corroborated that the noise plays a crucial rule in effective and efficient training of neural networks. The theory behind, however, is still largely unknown. This paper studies this fundamental problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mo Zhou , Tianyi Liu , Yan Li , Dachao Lin , Enlu Zhou , Tuo Zhao

Sensor pattern noise has been found to be a reliable tool for providing information relating to the provenance of an image. Conventionally sensor pattern noise is modelled as a mutual interaction of pixel non-uniformity noise and dark…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-09 Richard Matthews , Matthew Sorell , Nickolas Falkner

Bayesian inversion is central to the quantification of uncertainty within problems arising from numerous applications in science and engineering. To formulate the approach, four ingredients are required: a forward model mapping the unknown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Mark Girolami , Andrew M. Stuart , Arnaud Vadeboncoeur

Noise is widely understood to be something that interferes with a signal or process. Thus, it is generally thought to be destructive, obscuring signals and interfering with function. However, early in the 20th century, mechanical engineers…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Steven Weinstein , Theodore P. Pavlic

Living systems continually respond to signals from the surrounding environment. Survival requires that their responses adapt quickly and robustly to the changes in the environment. One particularly challenging example is olfactory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Kiri Choi , Will Rosenbluth , Isabella R. Graf , Nirag Kadakia , Thierry Emonet

Predicting odor's pleasantness simplifies the evaluation of odors and has the potential to be applied in perfumes and environmental monitoring industry. Classical algorithms for predicting odor's pleasantness generally use a manual feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Danli Wu , Yu Cheng , Dehan Luo , Kin-Yeung Wong , Kevin Hung , Zhijing Yang

We propose a spatial diffuseness feature for deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition to improve recognition accuracy in reverberant and noisy environments. The feature is computed in real-time from multiple microphone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Andreas Schwarz , Christian Huemmer , Roland Maas , Walter Kellermann