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The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem is a classic and widely studied model in optimal control, providing a fundamental framework for designing controllers for linear systems subject to process and observation noises. In recent years,…

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Analytical and practical evidence indicates the advantage of quantum computing solutions over classical alternatives. Quantum-based heuristics relying on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and the quantum approximate optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Sarthak Gupta , Vassilis Kekatos

This paper introduces vector copulas associated with multivariate distributions with given multivariate marginals, based on the theory of measure transportation, and establishes a vector version of Sklar's theorem. The latter provides a…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-04-14 Yanqin Fan , Marc Henry

A local convergence rate is established for a Gauss orthogonal collocation method applied to optimal control problems with control constraints. If the Hamiltonian possesses a strong convexity property, then the theory yields convergence for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-17 William W. Hager , Jun Liu , Subhashree Mohapatra , Anil V. Rao , Xiang-Sheng Wang

Motivated by modern data forms such as images and multi-view data, the multi-attribute graphical model aims to explore the conditional independence structure among vectors. Under the Gaussian assumption, the conditional independence between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-11 Qi Zhang , Bing Li , Lingzhou Xue

This work introduces novel computational methods for entropic optimal transport (OT) problems under martingale-type conditions. The considered problems include the discrete martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem. Moreover, as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xun Tang , Michael Shavlovsky , Holakou Rahmanian , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

We obtain an explicit solution for the static Kullback--Leibler (KL) unbalanced optimal transport problem between finite non-degenerate Gaussian measures with quadratic cost, two independent positive marginal relaxation parameters, and no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

Analytically continuing the von Neumann entropy from R\'enyi entropies is a challenging task in quantum field theory. While the $n$-th R\'enyi entropy can be computed using the replica method in the path integral representation of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Chih-Hung Wu , Ching-Che Yen

We analyze the expressivity of a universal deep neural network that can be organized as a series of nested qubit rotations, accomplished by adjustable data re-uploads. While the maximal expressive power increases with the depth of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Iván Panadero , Yue Ban , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Jorge Casanova , Erik Torrontegui

Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybrid classical-quantum architecture, have recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Mark M. Wilde

Quantile regression (QR) is becoming increasingly popular due to its relevance in many scientific investigations. However, application of QR can become very challenging when dealing with high-dimensional data, making it necessary to use…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-11 Eliana Christou

Conformalized Quantile Regression (CQR) is a recently proposed method for constructing prediction intervals for a response $Y$ given covariates $X$, without making distributional assumptions. However, existing constructions of CQR can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-16 Raphael Rossellini , Rina Foygel Barber , Rebecca Willett

We consider the problem of solving the optimal transport problem between two empirical distributions with missing values. Our main assumption is that the data is missing completely at random (MCAR), but we allow for heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-26 Linus Bleistein , Aurélien Bellet , Julie Josse

Quantization has been proven to be an effective method for reducing the computing and/or storage cost of DNNs. However, the trade-off between the quantization bitwidth and final accuracy is complex and non-convex, which makes it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Cheng Gong , Yao Chen , Ye Lu , Tao Li , Cong Hao , Deming Chen

In this short note, we consider the problem of prescribing the Gauss curvature and image of the Gauss map for the graph of a function over a domain in Euclidean space. The prescription of the image of the Gauss map turns this into a second…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Nestor Guillen , Jun Kitagawa

Optimal Transport (OT) based distances are powerful tools for machine learning to compare probability measures and manipulate them using OT maps. In this field, a setting of interest is semi-discrete OT, where the source measure $\mu$ is…

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

Gaussian MIMO channel under total transmit and interference power constraints (TPC and IPC) is considered. A closed-form solution for the optimal transmit covariance matrix in the general case is obtained using the KKT-based approach (up to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Sergey Loyka

Optimal transport (OT) is attracting increasing attention in machine learning. It aims to transport a source distribution to a target one at minimal cost. In its vanilla form, the source and target distributions are predetermined, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Liangliang Shi , Zhaoqi Shen , Junchi Yan

Variational inference (VI) has emerged as a popular method for approximate inference for high-dimensional Bayesian models. In this paper, we propose a novel VI method that extends the naive mean field via entropic regularization, referred…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Bohan Wu , David Blei