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Douglas-Rachford Splitting (DRS) methods based on the proximal point algorithms for the Poisson and Gaussian log-likelihood functions are proposed for ptychography and phase retrieval. Fixed point analysis shows that the DRS iterated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-13 A. Fannjiang , Z. Zhang

Probabilistic prediction of stochastic dynamical systems (SDSs) aims to accurately predict the conditional probability distributions of future states. However, accurate probabilistic predictions tightly hinge on accurate distributional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Tao Xu , Jianping He

Most scientific publications follow the familiar recipe of (i) obtain data, (ii) fit a model, and (iii) comment on the scientific relevance of the effects of particular covariates in that model. This approach, however, ignores the fact that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-08 Nicholas Kissel , Lucas Mentch

We present an embedding of the Tsallis entropy into the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group, in order to understand the meaning of generalized independence as encoded in the Tsallis entropy composition property. We infer that the Tsallis entropy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Nikos Kalogeropoulos

Federated Learning (FL) is designed as a decentralized, privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their data. In real-world scenarios, however, clients often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Maulidi Adi Prasetia , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Guntur Dharma Putra

This paper tackles one of the most fundamental goals in functional time series analysis which is to provide reliable predictions for future functions. Existing methods for predicting a complete future functional observation use only…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-08 Shuhao Jiao , Alexander Aue , Hernando Ombao

We establish existence of Predictable Forward Performance Processes (PFPPs) in complete markets, which has been previously shown only in the binomial setting. Our market model can be a discrete-time or a continuous-time model, and the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-22 Bahman Angoshtari

Dynamical System (DS) based Learning from Demonstration (LfD) allows learning of reactive motion policies with stability and convergence guarantees from a few trajectories. Yet, current DS learning techniques lack the flexibility to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tianyu Li , Nadia Figueroa

We present a generic approach that allows us to develop a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FTPAS) for minimizing nonlinear functions over the integer points in a rational polyhedron in fixed dimension. The approach combines the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Robert Hildebrand , Robert Weismantel , Kevin Zemmer

We have discussed the validity of the factorization approximation (FA) and nonextensivity-induced correlation, by using the multivariate $q$-Gaussian probability distribution function (PDF) for $N$-unit independent nonextensive systems. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-10 Hideo Hasegawa

The Jeffreys divergence is a renown symmetrization of the oriented Kullback-Leibler divergence broadly used in information sciences. Since the Jeffreys divergence between Gaussian mixture models is not available in closed-form, various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Frank Nielsen

This study investigates clustered federated learning (FL), one of the formulations of FL with non-i.i.d. data, where the devices are partitioned into clusters and each cluster optimally fits its data with a localized model. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xue Yu , Ziyi Liu , Wu Wang , Yifan Sun

The analogy between determinantal point processes (DPPs) and free fermionic calculi is well-known. We point out that, from the perspective of free fermionic algebras, Pfaffian point processes (PfPPs) naturally emerge, and show that a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Shinji Koshida

Tsallis q-extension of statistics and fractal generalization of dynamics are two faces of the same physical reality, as well as the Kernel modern complexity theory. The fractal generalization dynamics is based at the multiscale -…

In optimization, the natural gradient method is well-known for likelihood maximization. The method uses the Kullback-Leibler divergence, corresponding infinitesimally to the Fisher-Rao metric, which is pulled back to the parameter space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-26 Anton Mallasto , Tom Dela Haije , Aasa Feragen

We recently proposed a general algorithm for approximating nonstandard Bayesian posterior distributions by minimization of their Kullback-Leibler divergence with respect to a more convenient approximating distribution. In this note we offer…

Computation · Statistics 2014-01-10 Tim Salimans

Understanding generalization in deep learning has been one of the major challenges in statistical learning theory over the last decade. While recent work has illustrated that the dataset and the training algorithm must be taken into account…

The paper proposes and implements a methodology to fit a seven-parameter Generalized Tempered Stable (GTS) distribution to financial data. The nonexistence of the mathematical expression of the GTS probability density function makes the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-01-14 Aubain Nzokem , Daniel Maposa

The Takacs--Fiksel method is a general approach to estimate the parameters of a spatial Gibbs point process. This method embraces standard procedures such as the pseudolikelihood and is defined via weight functions. In this paper we propose…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Jean-François Coeurjolly , Yongtao Guan , Mahdieh Khanmohammadi , Rasmus Waagepetersen

This paper develops new variance-reduction techniques for the forward-reflected-backward splitting (FRBS) method to solve a class of possibly nonmonotone stochastic composite inclusions. Unlike unbiased estimators such as mini-batching,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Nghia Nguyen-Trung