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Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a variety of tasks, but their brittleness to distributional shifts remains a significant barrier to real-world deployment. In this paper, we propose a framework to analyse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Divij Khaitan , Subhashis Banerjee

We present the MCscales approach for incorporating scale uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs). The new methodology builds on the Monte Carlo sampling for propagating experimental uncertainties into the PDF space that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Zahari Kassabov , Maria Ubiali , Cameron Voisey

We present a Bayesian nonparametric Poisson factorization model for modeling network data with an unknown and potentially growing number of overlapping communities. The construction is based on completely random measures and allows the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-28 Fadhel Ayed , François Caron

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of convex objective functions where the components of the objective are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only communicate with their neighbors. The use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Aryan Mokhtari , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

We review the theoretical foundations of the quantum statistical approach to parton distributions and we show that by using some recent experimental results from Deep Inelastic Scattering, we are able to improve the description of the data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Jacques Soffer , Claude Bourrely , Franco Buccella

Using a simple picture of the constituent quark as a composite system of point-like partons, we construct the polarized parton distributions by a convolution between constituent quark momentum distributions and constituent quark structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sergio Scopetta , Vicente Vento , Marco Traini

Taking proton as an ensemble of quark-gluon Fock states and using the principle of detailed balance, we construct a simple statistical model for parton distribution of proton. The recent observed Bjorken-$x$ dependent light flavor sea quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yong-Jun Zhang , Bing-Song Zou , Li-Ming Yang

We present a novel approach using neural networks to recover X-ray spectral model parameters and quantify uncertainties, balancing accuracy and computational efficiency against traditional frequentist and Bayesian methods. Frequentist…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 A. Tutone , A. Anitra , E. Ambrosi , R. La Placa , A. D'Aì , C. Pinto , M. Del Santo , F. Pintore , A. Pagliaro , A. Anzalone , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , L. Burderi , A. Sanna

Neural networks are promising tools for high-throughput and accurate transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis of nanomaterials, but are known to generalize poorly on data that is "out-of-distribution" from their training data. Given…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-22 Katherine Sytwu , Luis Rangel DaCosta , Mary C. Scott

We propose an integral geometric approach for computing dual distributions for the parameter distributions of multilinear models. The dual distributions can be computed from, for example, the parameter distributions of conics, multiple view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Sami Sebastian Brandt

We give a brief overview on the theory and phenomenology of generalized parton distributions (GPDs), including the recently developed framework of single-diffractive hard exclusive process for matching GPDs to experimental observables. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-24 Jian-Wei Qiu , Zhite Yu

We compare several approaches to learn an Optimal Map, represented as a neural network, between probability distributions. The approaches fall into two categories: ``Heuristics'' and approaches with a more sound mathematical justification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Andrea Schioppa

Polarized parton distribution functions are determined by using world data from the longitudinally polarized deep inelastic scattering experiments. A new parametrization of the parton distribution functions is adopted by taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Y. Goto , N. Hayashi , M. Hirai , H. Horikawa , S. Kumano , M. Miyama , T. Morii , N. Saito , T. -A. Shibata , E. Taniguchi , T. Yamanishi

I consider the uncertainties in parton distributions and the consequences for hadronic cross-sections. There is ever-increasing sophistication in the relationship between the uncertainties of the distributions and the errors on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-20 R. S. Thorne

I report on a numerical program for the evolution of parton distributions. The program uses the Mellin-transform method with an optimized contour. Due to this optimized contour the program needs only a few evaluations of the integrand and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Weinzierl

An artificial neural network architecture, parameterization networks, is proposed for simulating extrapolated dynamics beyond observed data in dynamical systems. Parameterization networks are used to ensure the long term integrity of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-21 James P. L. Tan

The crossing properties of the matrix elements of non-local operators, parameterized by Generalized Parton Distribution, are considered. They are especially simple in terms of the Double Distributions which are common for the various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 O. V. Teryaev

Triangular distributions are a well-known class of distributions that are often used as elementary example of a probability model. In the past, enumeration and order statistic-based methods have been suggested for the maximum likelihood…

Computation · Statistics 2016-02-16 Hien D Nguyen , Geoffrey J McLachlan

The generalized parton distributions, introduced nearly a decade ago, have emerged as a universal tool to describe hadrons in terms of quark and gluonic degrees of freedom. They combine the features of form factors, parton densities and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 A. V. Belitsky , A. V. Radyushkin

Skewed parton distributions contain new non-perturbative information about hadronic states. Thus, their extraction from experimental data is an important goal. Properties and models for skewed parton distributions as well as their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Müller