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Because of a close blood relationship between directed percolation & directed polymers in random media, the latter's journey to asymptotic scaling can be greatly retarded by an uninformed choice of departure point; i.e., the bare-bond PDF…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy Halpin-Healy , Rachayl Novoseller

Random Projection is a foundational research topic that connects a bunch of machine learning algorithms under a similar mathematical basis. It is used to reduce the dimensionality of the dataset by projecting the data points efficiently to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Mahmoud Nabil

Density-based directed distances -- particularly known as divergences -- between probability distributions are widely used in statistics as well as in the adjacent research fields of information theory, artificial intelligence and machine…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Michel Broniatowski , Wolfgang Stummer

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) are a very popular class of deep generative model that have been successfully applied to a diverse range of problems including image and video generation, protein and material synthesis,…

These are lecture notes based on the first part of a course on 'Mathematical Data Science', which I taught to final year BSc students in the UK in 2019-2020. Topics include: concentration of measure in high dimensions; Gaussian random…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Sven-Ake Wegner

We study the behavior of droplets for two dimensional Ising spin glasses with Gaussian interactions. We use an exact matching algorithm which enables study of systems with linear dimension L up to 240, which is larger than is possible with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Hartmann , M. A. Moore

Informative path planning is an important and challenging problem in robotics that remains to be solved in a manner that allows for wide-spread implementation and real-world practical adoption. Among various reasons for this, one is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Brady Moon , Satrajit Chatterjee , Sebastian Scherer

From condensed matter to quantum chromodynamics, multidimensional spins are a fundamental paradigm, with a pivotal role in combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Machines formed by coupled parametric oscillators can simulate spin…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-29 Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Claudio Conti

Sinai's model of diffusion in one-dimension with random local bias is studied by a real space renormalization group which yields asymptotically exact long time results. The distribution of the position of a particle and the probability of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel Fisher , Pierre Le Doussal , Cecile Monthus

We present the path integral formulation of a broad class of generalized diffusion processes. Employing the path integral we derive exact expressions for the path probability densities and joint probability distributions for the class of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-27 Rudolf Friedrich , Stephan Eule

We study analytically the Ising model coupled to random lattices in dimension three and higher. The family of random lattices we use is generated by the large N limit of a colored tensor model generalizing the two-matrix model for Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-27 Valentin Bonzom , Razvan Gurau , Vincent Rivasseau

We study a one-dimensional class of reaction-diffusion models on a $10-$parameters manifold. The equations of motion of the correlation functions close on this manifold. We compute exactly the long-time behaviour of the density and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Mobilia , P. -A. Bares

We study a class of deterministic flows in ${\mathbb R}^{d\times k}$, parametrized by a random matrix ${\boldsymbol X}\in {\mathbb R}^{n\times d}$ with i.i.d. centered subgaussian entries. We characterize the asymptotic behavior of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Michael Celentano , Chen Cheng , Andrea Montanari

In this report, the explicit probability density functions of the random Euclidean distances associated with equilateral triangles are given, when the two endpoints of a link are randomly distributed in 1) the same triangle, 2) two adjacent…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Yanyan Zhuang , Jianping Pan

Domain generalization aims to learn invariance across multiple training domains, thereby enhancing generalization against out-of-distribution data. While gradient or representation matching algorithms have achieved remarkable success, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Hong Chen , Shuangyong Song , Weizhan Zhang , Chen Li

Propagation of two dimensional pulses in electromagnetically induced tranparency media in the case of perpendicular storing and retrieving pulses has been analyzed. It has been shown that propagation control of the pulses in optically thick…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gor Nikoghosyan

Random processes play a crucial role in scientific research, often characterized by distribution functions or probability density functions (PDFs). These PDFs serve as essential approximations of the actual and frequently undisclosed…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 Nico Schick

The purpose of this manuscript is to review my recent activity on three main research topics. The first concerns the nature of low temperature amorphous solids and their relation with the spin glass transition in a magnetic field. This is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-13 Pierfrancesco Urbani

Optimizing paths on networks is crucial for many applications, from subway traffic to Internet communication. As global path optimization that takes account of all path-choices simultaneously is computationally hard, most existing routing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-05 Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad , K. Y. Michael Wong

An integro-differential equation describing the angular distribution of beams is analyzed for a medium with random inhomogeneities. Beams are trapped because inhomogeneities give rise to wave localization at random locations and random…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky