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We study the 2-dimensional Ising model at critical temperature on a simply connected subset $\Omega_{\delta}$ of the square grid $\delta\mathbb{Z}^{2}$. The scaling limit of the critical Ising model is conjectured to be described by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Reza Gheissari , Clément Hongler , S. C. Park

We are witnessing significant progress on perception models, specifically those trained on large-scale internet images. However, efficiently generalizing these perception models to unseen embodied tasks is insufficiently studied, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Ya Jing , Tao Kong

We consider the directed network (DN) of edge states on the surface of a cylinder of length L and circumference C. By mapping it to a ferromagnetic superspin chain, and using a scaling analysis, we show its equivalence to a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ilya A. Gruzberg , N. Read , Subir Sachdev

The hierarchical distribution matching (Hi-DM) approach for probabilistic shaping is described. The potential of Hi-DM in terms of trade-off between performance,complexity, and memory is illustrated through three case studies.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Stella Civelli , Marco Secondini

The presence of temporal correlations in random movement trajectories is a widespread phenomenon across biological, chemical and physical systems. The ubiquity of persistent and anti-persistent motion in many natural and synthetic systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-03 Daniel Marris , Luca Giuggioli

Optical beam propagation in random media is characterized by familiar speckle patterns generated by intricate interference effects. Such patterns may be modified and possibly attenuated for partially coherent incident beam profiles. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Guillaume Bal , Anjali Nair

We present a path integral formulation of Darcy's equation in one dimension with random permeability described by a correlated multi-variate lognormal distribution. This path integral is evaluated with the Markov chain Monte Carlo method to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Marise J. E. Westbroek , Gil-Arnaud Coche , Peter R. King , Dimitri D. Vvedensky

We consider linear regression problems with a varying number of random projections, where we provably exhibit a double descent curve for a fixed prediction problem, with a high-dimensional analysis based on random matrix theory. We first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Francis Bach

This is a (long) survey about applications of percolation theory in equilibrium statistical mechanics. The chapters are as follows: 1. Introduction 2. Equilibrium phases 3. Some models 4. Coupling and stochastic domination 5. Percolation 6.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 H. -O. Georgii , O. Häggström , C. Maes

We introduce, test and discuss a method for classifying and clustering data modeled as directed graphs. The idea is to start diffusion processes from any subset of a data collection, generating corresponding distributions for reaching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-26 Jimmy Dubuisson , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Andrea Agazzi

We discuss the product of $M$ rectangular random matrices with independent Gaussian entries, which have several applications including wireless telecommunication and econophysics. For complex matrices an explicit expression for the joint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Gernot Akemann , Jesper R. Ipsen , Mario Kieburg

Introduction Path Integrals - Introduction - Propagator - Free Particle - Path Integral Representation of Quantum Mechanics - Particle on a Ring - Particle in a Box - Driven Harmonic Oscillator - Semiclassical Approximation - Imaginary Time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-25 Gert-Ludwig Ingold

This is an easy-to-read introduction to foundations of deterministic chaos, deterministic diffusion and anomalous diffusion. The first part introduces to deterministic chaos in one-dimensional maps in form of Ljapunov exponents and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-27 R. Klages

Text-guided diffusion models such as DALLE-2, Imagen, eDiff-I, and Stable Diffusion are able to generate an effectively endless variety of images given only a short text prompt describing the desired image content. In many cases the images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Wan-Duo Kurt Ma , J. P. Lewis , Avisek Lahiri , Thomas Leung , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Sound source proximity and distance estimation are of great interest in many practical applications, since they provide significant information for acoustic scene analysis. As both tasks share complementary qualities, ensuring efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Daniel Aleksander Krause , Archontis Politis , Annamaria Mesaros

These notes offer a unified introduction to spectral methods for the study of complex systems. They are intended as an operative manual rather than a theorem-proof textbook: the emphasis is on tools, identities, and perspectives that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Francesco Caravelli

A model for diffusion on a cubic lattice with a random distribution of traps is developed. The traps are redistributed at certain time intervals. Such models are useful for describing systems showing dynamic disorder, such as ion-conducting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Mandal , R. Dasgupta

We develop a general theory for percolation in directed random networks with arbitrary two point correlations and bidirectional edges, that is, edges pointing in both directions simultaneously. These two ingredients alter the previously…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Boguna , M. A. Serrano

Modeling the propagation of light through disordered media is central to understanding and controlling wave transport in diverse optical and mesoscopic applications. Here, we present a random matrix simulation framework for modeling the…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Niall Byrnes , Sulagna Dutta , Matthew R. Foreman

We show that the problem of directed percolation on an arbitrary lattice is equivalent to the problem of m directed random walkers with rather general attractive interactions, when suitably continued to m=0. In 1+1 dimensions, this is dual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Cardy , Francesca Colaiori