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This paper generalises the exponential family GLM to allow arbitrary distributions for the response variable. This is achieved by combining the model-assisted regression approach from survey sampling with the GLM scoring algorithm, weighted…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-10 Murray Aitkin

We present a new integral transform called the Generalized Borel Transform (GBT) and show how to use it to compute some distribution functions used to describe the statistico-mechanical behavior of macromolecules. For this purpose, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Marucho , G. A. Carri

A generalization of the thermodynamic uncertainty relations is proposed. It is done by introducing of an additional term proportional to the interior energy into the standard thermodynamic uncertainty relation that leads to existence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , A. Ya. Tregubovich

We introduce Deep Sigma Point Processes, a class of parametric models inspired by the compositional structure of Deep Gaussian Processes (DGPs). Deep Sigma Point Processes (DSPPs) retain many of the attractive features of (variational)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-29 Martin Jankowiak , Geoff Pleiss , Jacob R. Gardner

Gaussian Process (GP) models are a powerful tool in probabilistic machine learning with a solid theoretical foundation. Thanks to current advances, modeling complex data with GPs is becoming increasingly feasible, which makes them an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Sarem Seitz

Real-world processes often generate data that are a mix of categorical and numeric values that are recorded at irregular and informative intervals. Discrete token-based approaches are limited in numeric representation capacity while methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Andrew J. Loza , Jun Yup Kim , Shangzheng Song , Yihang Liu , Joseph J. Y. Sung , R Andrew Taylor , Dennis L. Shung

This paper puts forward a new generalized polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD), referred to as GPDD, comprising hierarchically ordered measure-consistent multivariate orthogonal polynomials in dependent random variables. Unlike the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Sharif Rahman

Discrete random probability measures and the exchangeable random partitions they induce are key tools for addressing a variety of estimation and prediction problems in Bayesian inference. Indeed, many popular nonparametric priors, such as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-03 P. De Blasi , S. Favaro , A. Lijoi , R. H. Mena , I. Pruenster , M. Ruggiero

This article is a survey of recent developments in, and a tutorial on, the approach to P v. NP and related questions called Geometric Complexity Theory (GCT). It is written to be accessible to graduate students. Numerous open questions in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-13 J. M. Landsberg

In general, while obtaining the probability density function of sums and products of shifted random variables, ordinary analytical methods such as Fourier and Mellin transforms tend to provide integrals which cannot be expressed in terms of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Pushpa N. rathie , Arjun K. Rathie , Luan C. de S. M. Ozelim

A new approach on the joint estimation of partially exchangeable observations is presented by constructing pairwise dependence between $m$ random density functions, each of which is modeled as a mixture of geometric stick breaking…

We introduce a stochastic process with Wishart marginals: the generalised Wishart process (GWP). It is a collection of positive semi-definite random matrices indexed by any arbitrary dependent variable. We use it to model dynamic (e.g. time…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-01-04 Andrew Gordon Wilson , Zoubin Ghahramani

In differential privacy (DP), the generalized private testing problem was introduced by Liu and Talwar (STOC 2019). Given a dataset $X \in \mathcal{X}$ and a sequence of black-box $\varepsilon_t$-DP mechanisms $M_t:\mathcal{X}\to\{+1,-1\}$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anamay Chaturvedi , Monika Henzinger , Jalaj Upadhyay

We consider optimal state discrimination in a general convex operational framework, so-called generalized probabilistic theories (GPTs), and present a general method of optimal discrimination by applying the complementarity problem from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Joonwoo Bae , D. -G. Kim , Leong-Chuan Kwek

This text is a survey of the general theory of stochastic processes, with a view towards random times and enlargements of filtrations. The first five chapters present standard materials, which were developed by the French probability school…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ashkan Nikeghbali

Probabilistic programming (PP) is a programming paradigm that allows for writing statistical models like ordinary programs, performing simulations by running those programs, and analyzing and refining their statistical behavior using…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Martin Kuhn , Joscha Grüger , Christoph Matheja , Andrey Rivkin

Generalizations to the permutation test are introduced to allow for situations in which the null model is not exchangeable. It is shown that the generalized permutation tests are exact, and a partial converse: that any test function that is…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-03 Jeffrey Roach , William Valdar

When analyzing data from multiple sources, it is often convenient to strike a careful balance between two goals: capturing the heterogeneity of the samples and sharing information across them. We introduce a novel framework to model a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-02 Laura D'Angelo , Bernardo Nipoti , Andrea Ongaro

Generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) with remarkable performance in various tasks and also extend their power to multimodal domains. Despite their success, large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kaiyuan Gao , Sunan He , Zhenyu He , Jiacheng Lin , QiZhi Pei , Jie Shao , Wei Zhang

In pattern recognition, handling uncertainty is a critical challenge that significantly affects decision-making and classification accuracy. Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) is an effective reasoning framework for addressing uncertainty, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Juntao Xu , Tianxiang Zhan , Yong Deng