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This paper studies sparse covariance operator estimation for nonstationary processes with sharply varying marginal variance and small correlation lengthscale. We introduce a covariance operator estimator that adaptively thresholds the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Omar Al-Ghattas , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

Vacuum energies are computed in light-cone field theories to obtain effective potentials which determine vacuum condensate. Quantization surfaces interpolating between the light-like surface and the usual spatial one are useful to define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Shin-ichi Kojima , Norisuke Sakai , Tadakatsu Sakai

As an important problem in causal inference, we discuss the estimation of treatment effects (TEs). Representing the confounder as a latent variable, we propose Intact-VAE, a new variant of variational autoencoder (VAE), motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-22 Pengzhou Wu , Kenji Fukumizu

Applying the time-dependent variational principle of Balian and V\'en\'eroni, we derive variational approximations for multi-time correlation functions in $\Phi^4$ field theory. We assume first that the initial state is given and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Cécile Martin

A methodology is proposed for the calculation of the truncation error of finite volume discretisations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on colocated grids. The truncation error is estimated by restricting the solution obtained…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Alexandros Syrakos , Apostolos Goulas

In the regime where traditional approaches to electronic structure cannot afford to achieve accurate energy differences via exhaustive wave function flexibility, rigorous approaches to balancing different states' accuracies become…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Paul J. Robinson , Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

Chiral effective field theory (EFT) predictions are necessarily truncated at some order in the EFT expansion, which induces an error that must be quantified for robust statistical comparisons to experiment. In previous work, a Bayesian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-28 J. A. Melendez , S. Wesolowski , R. J. Furnstahl

Recently obtained results for two and three point functions for quasi-primary operators in conformally invariant theories in arbitrary dimensions {\absit d} are described. As a consequence the three point function for the energy momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Osborn

We evaluate the vacuum energy of a simple tachyon vacuum solution using the level truncation scheme in cubic superstring field theory. By truncating the standard Virasoro $L_0$ level expansion of the solution, we obtain a value of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-11 E. Aldo Arroyo

We introduce the Variational Holder (VH) bound as an alternative to Variational Bayes (VB) for approximate Bayesian inference. Unlike VB which typically involves maximization of a non-convex lower bound with respect to the variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-22 Guillaume Bouchard , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

Computing expected predictions of discriminative models is a fundamental task in machine learning that appears in many interesting applications such as fairness, handling missing values, and data analysis. Unfortunately, computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Pasha Khosravi , YooJung Choi , Yitao Liang , Antonio Vergari , Guy Van den Broeck

Estimating treatment effects, especially individualized treatment effects (ITE), using observational data is challenging due to the complex situations of confounding bias. Existing approaches for estimating treatment effects from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-26 Zheng Feng , Mattia Prosperi , Jiang Bian

The method of estimation of the unknown high-dimensional vacuum averages is offered. This method is based on the idea of self-consistence of the factorization hypothesis. So it appears possible to evaluate all vacuum averages of dimension 7…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 A. G. Oganesian

The Truncated conformal space approach (TCSA) is a numerical technique for finding finite size spectrum of Hamiltonians in quantum field theory described as perturbations of conformal field theories. The truncation errors of the method have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Anatoly Konechny , Dermot McAteer

In this paper, we price European Call three different option pricing models, where the volatility is dynamically changing i.e. non constant. In stochastic volatility (SV) models for option pricing a closed form approximation technique is…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2023-09-19 Natasha Latif , Shafqat Ali Shad , Muhammad Usman , Chandan Kumar , Bahman B Motii , MD Mahfuzer Rahman , Khuram Shafi , Zahra Idrees

We calculate expectation values of QCD operators consisting of the products of the four operators of the light quarks corresponding to the scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, pseudovector (axial) and tensor Lorentz structures in the nucleon. All…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Drukarev , M. G. Ryskin , V. A. Sadovnikova , V. E. Lyubovitskij , Th. Gutsche , Amand Faessler

Many real-world systems modeled using partial differential equations (PDEs) involve unknown parameters that must be estimated from limited, noisy system observations. While typically assumed to be constants, some of these unobserved…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Andrea Arnold

Recent advances in conformal field theory and critical phenomena have focused on the characterization of boundary or defects in a conformally invariant system. In this Letter we study the critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Dorian Przetakiewicz , Stefan Wessel , Francesco Parisen Toldin

We derive the thermal correlators for twisted quantum fields on noncommutative spacetime. We show that the thermal expectation value of the number operator is same as in commutative spacetime, but that higher correlators are sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Prasad Basu , Rahul Srivastava , Sachindeo Vaidya

We consider Bayesian estimation of information-theoretic quantities from data, using a Dirichlet prior. Acknowledging the uncertainty of the event space size $m$ and the Dirichlet prior's concentration parameter $c$, we treat both as random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-20 David H. Wolpert , Simon DeDeo