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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have created new security challenges for critical infrastructures due to their stealthy, dynamic, and adaptive natures. In this work, we aim to lay a game-theoretic foundation by establishing a multi-stage…

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We consider an $N$-player game where the states of the players evolve with time as Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) with interaction only in the drift terms. Each player controls the drift of the SDE satisfied by her state process,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Nikolaos Kolliopoulos

We develop the mathematical foundations of the stochastic modified equations (SME) framework for analyzing the dynamics of stochastic gradient algorithms, where the latter is approximated by a class of stochastic differential equations with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Qianxiao Li , Cheng Tai , Weinan E

A widely used approach to describe the dynamics of gene regulatory networks is based on the chemical master equation, which considers probability distributions over all possible combinations of molecular counts. The analysis of such models…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-04 Pavel Kurasov , Alexander Lück , Delio Mugnolo , Verena Wolf

This article deals with the adaptive and approximative computation of the Lam\'e equations. The equations of linear elasticity are considered as boundary integral equations and solved in the setting of the boundary element method (BEM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Maximilian Bauer , Mario Bebendorf

The convergence of expectation-maximization (EM)-based algorithms typically requires continuity of the likelihood function with respect to all the unknown parameters (optimization variables). The requirement is not met when parameters…

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The Expectation Maximisation (EM) algorithm is widely used to optimise non-convex likelihood functions with latent variables. Many authors modified its simple design to fit more specific situations. For instance, the Expectation (E) step…

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Experiments in predator-prey systems show the emergence of long-term cycles. Deterministic model typically fails in capturing these behaviors, which emerge from the microscopic interplay of individual based dynamics and stochastic effects.…

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We introduce a framework for stochastic games on large sparse graphs, covering continuous-time and discrete-time dynamic games as well as static games. Players are indexed by the vertices of simple, locally finite graphs, allowing both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Eyal Neuman , Sturmius Tuschmann

For complex nonlinear systems, it is challenging to design algorithms that are fast, scalable, and give an accurate approximation of the stability region. This paper proposes a sampling-based approach to address these challenges. By…

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We consider the asymmetric random average process which is a one-dimensional stochastic lattice model with nearest neighbour interaction but continuous and unbounded state variables. First, the explicit functional representations, so-called…

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Given a high-dimensional data matrix ${\boldsymbol A}\in{\mathbb R}^{m\times n}$, Approximate Message Passing (AMP) algorithms construct sequences of vectors ${\boldsymbol u}^t\in{\mathbb R}^n$, ${\boldsymbol v}^t\in{\mathbb R}^m$, indexed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Raphael Berthier , Andrea Montanari , Phan-Minh Nguyen

The classical work of (Arora et al., 1999) provides a scheme that gives, for any $\epsilon>0$, a polynomial time $1-\epsilon$ approximation algorithm for dense instances of a family of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems, such as Max-CUT and…

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We consider a stationary process (with either discrete or continuous time) and find an adaptive approximating stationary process combining approximation quality and supplementary good properties that can be interpreted as additional…

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We present a new method to close the Master Equation representing the continuous time dynamics of Ising interacting spins. The method makes use of the the theory of Random Point Processes to derive a master equation for local conditional…

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We present a general framework for evolutionary learning to emergent unbiased state representation without any supervision. Evolutionary frameworks such as self-play converge to bad local optima in case of multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-03 Shohei Ohsawa

To infer the parameters of mechanistic models with intractable likelihoods, techniques such as approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) are increasingly being adopted. One of the main disadvantages of ABC in practical situations, however, is…

Computation · Statistics 2018-08-03 Jonathan U Harrison , Ruth E Baker

We study the problem of regression in a generalized linear model (GLM) with multiple signals and latent variables. This model, which we call a matrix GLM, covers many widely studied problems in statistical learning, including mixed linear…

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AC State Estimation (ACSE) is widely recognized as a practical approach for determining the grid states in steady-state conditions. It serves as a fundamental analysis to ensure grid security and is a reference for market dispatch. As grid…

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