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Stochastic process models for spatiotemporal data underlying random fields find substantial utility in a range of scientific disciplines. Subsequent to predictive inference on the values of the random field (or spatial surface indexed…

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We found that models of evolving random networks exhibit dynamic scaling similar to scaling of growing surfaces. It is demonstrated by numerical simulations of two variants of the model in which nodes are added as well as removed [Phys.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miroslav Kotrla , Frantisek Slanina , Jakub Steiner

The growth of a population divided among spatial sites, with migration between the sites, is sometimes modelled by a product of random matrices, with each diagonal elements representing the growth rate in a given time period, and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-04 David Steinsaltz , Shripad Tuljapurkar

We consider a discrete-time model for random interface growth which admits exact formulas and converges to the Polynuclear growth model in a particular limit. The height of the interface is initially flat and the evolution involves the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Will FitzGerald

The one-dimensional polynuclear growth model with external sources at edges is studied. The height fluctuation at the origin is known to be given by either the Gaussian, the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution, or certain distributions called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Imamura , T. Sasamoto

We show that the behavior of stochastic gradient descent is related to Bayesian statistics by showing that SGD is effectively diffusion on a fractal landscape, where the fractal dimension can be accounted for in a purely Bayesian way. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Max Hennick , Stijn De Baerdemacker

We consider random rectangles in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that are distributed according to a Poisson random measure, i.e., independently and uniformly scattered in the plane. The distributions of the length and the width of the rectangles are…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Frank Aurzada , Sebastian Schwinn

We construct a family of stochastic growth models in 2+1 dimensions, that belong to the anisotropic KPZ class. Appropriate projections of these models yield 1+1 dimensional growth models in the KPZ class and random tiling models. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Patrik L. Ferrari , Alexei Borodin

Understanding how stochastic and non-linear deterministic processes interact is a major challenge in population dynamics theory. After a short review, we introduce a stochastic individual-centered particle model to describe the evolution in…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-29 Regis Ferriere , Viet Chi Tran

We develop statistical mechanics for stochastic growth processes as applied to Laplacian growth by using its remarkable connection with a random matrix theory. The Laplacian growth equation is obtained from the variation principle and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-09 Oleg Alekseev , Mark Mineev-Weinstein

We study the morphology of magnetic domain growth in disordered three dimensional magnets. The disordered magnetic material is described within the random-field Ising model with a Gaussian distribution of local fields with width $\Delta$.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Belita Koiller , Mark O. Robbins

We study a stochastic Laplacian growth model, where a set $\mathbf{U}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{\mathrm{d}}$ grows according to a reflecting Brownian motion in $\mathbf{U}$ stopped at level sets of its boundary local time. We derive a scaling…

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We consider Evolution Strategies operating only with isotropic Gaussian mutations on positive quadratic objective functions, and investigate the covariance matrix when constructed out of selected individuals by truncation. We prove that the…

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We study scaling properties of stochastic aggregation processes in one dimension. Numerical simulations for both diffusive and ballistic transport show that the mass distribution is characterized by two independent nontrivial exponents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

This paper is the second of a series devoted to the study of the dynamics of the spectrum of large random matrices. We study general extensions of the partial differential equation arising to characterize the limit spectral measure of the…

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Primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) is a signature of fundamental physics in the early universe that is probed by cosmological observations. It is well known that the local type of PNG generates a strong signal in the two-point function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 James M. Sullivan , Uros Seljak

Random fields are useful mathematical tools for representing natural phenomena with complex dependence structures in space and/or time. In particular, the Gaussian random field is commonly used due to its attractive properties and…

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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-14 Dan Pirjol , Farshid Jafarpour , Srividya Iyer-Biswas

Growth patterns of complex systems predict how they change in sizes, numbers, masses, etc. Understanding growth is important, especially for many biological, ecological, urban, and socioeconomic systems. One noteworthy growth behavior is…

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